While you're at the DAZ site looking at Carrara take a look at their freebie DAZ Studio - it's a 3D character program and it might also do what you need to do. If I wanted to render the 2d characters separate, I had to render out 2 passes for them: the color pass and an alpha pass. This is because t...

yeah i got the book too.. this guy is a GREAT teacher, not to mention a brilliant animator...the videos look impressive, from what i've seen on the website. I want some free download ebooks based on web designing and animation...can i have the link please..