Originally posted by Total Rookie MY computer is worst than that... Hehe, then I don't feel as bad. I have been using Lynda.com's tutorials, but I downloaded the free dog tutorial from SimplyMaya. I noticed that he used a different technique than the Lynda videos -- he created a plane and did not use the image plane feature built-into Maya. I decided to try and see if that works better. This is what happened: I created the plane, put the image on it, and I created my curve. There was no lag or anything, it worked fine, except when I got half-way down his body, the curve dissapeared. I hid the plane to discover: the curve was UNDER the plane! I moved the plane up to the X axis to see if that helped, but everything over 1/2 of the way down the image plane dissapears. Even the grid did this! The grid displayed on the top half, but on the bottom half it didn't show up! Any idea what is causing this?