kbBlur2d; kbBlur2d: Executing the following system command: blur2d -l 1 -s 1 -m 2 -r 0 -n 0 60 1 -p 1 -c "C:/Documents and Settings/Owner/My Documents/maya/projects/Apache/images/Apache_AnimationB.iff" -v "C:/Documents and Settings/Owner/My Documents/maya/projects/Apache/images/Chopper/ahBG.iff" kbBlur2d completed. thats all she wrote. When I try the fcheck, it looks for the file, which doesn't exist // Error: Error reading file: C:/Documents and Settings/Owner/My Documents/maya/projects/Apache/images/Apache_AnimationB_blur.iff.0 // I didn't have a problem with the background pass at all. Thanks for replying so quickly