Talking of Maya 5, I have just been looking at it's new features, especially the character rigging and animation ones. Well, I could fall flat on my back cos I just seen some new constraints added (Parent) and a new option for keeping the offsets.

For those of you who haven't done character animation these are a real bonus! They endear Maya 5 to me immediately. Now I can make my character walk along with his hat on, take it off and leave it on the table without having to make different versions and invisible hats

Funny thing is (KEVIN - I HOPE YOU ARE READING THIS) that I have been able to do this in A:M for several years

But now I can do it in Maya without the crashing...

Just a bit of excitement for us character animators!