Good words there!

I agree that that you should focus on what you want to do. And as a eg. modeler you should probably focus on that. If I wanted a be a modeler it would probably be smart to learn to do it from scratch. But if I wanted to focus on rigging or animation a face generator or pre made meshes to work with would be just what the doctor ordered. I kinda tried to say that in my previos post.

When somebody states that they have moved into the world of character animation and try to walk a stick figure, I just asume they want answers on just that.

And ohh... I think that the tools and people skills in the character animation department only seems to be slowly getting up to par with other areas of 3D. When I look around the boards and the net in general I still find much more good modeling than good animation!? So i think it's a good thing that animation get a lot of attention right now!

Cheers!