thanks guys

gnogtr: the machines at uni are all roughly around 2-3 ghz 1-2 gig ram ok gfx card nothing too special, your machine could easily handle Maya 6.0 (the prog i'm using) although I think I'm gonna use Softimage XSI for my next project to me it's alot easier to use. You can get a 30 day trial of XSI if any of you are interested in trying out some CG.

cherrypie: thanks alot for the offer but I havn't finished It yet, I've got some test animations but they are low quality previews, the shots up here are just single frame renders and it's gonna take an loooong time to render the whole thing, but thanks anyway.