Gare: Too bad that Xara does not animate molds.......when I did my flag, the preview looked pretty smooth but when I exported it to both gif and swf, I returned to the somewhat jerky performace. Disappointing......have not had time to go play with my approach to the shadow/highlight effect. Perhaps you can same me some time because what I was thinking about trying was changing the opacity and fill effect from one frame to the next. Will that work (be tweened)?

BTW: I do not see any of your stuff on ArtRage.

Big Frank: You said Flash is on he way out. What do you see as its replacement? I am seeing some tools for creating AVIs and Microsoft tried its Silverlight but that has not gone anywhere at all. My neighbor's daughter is off at an art school and has just changed her major to animation. She told me they use the Adobe (After Effects looks really powerful). The Adobe product line is just too darn expensive for amatures like myself. I do this stuff for fun, not as a professional.