For me it came down to what I wanted to be able to do
in an animation.  Programming my own in-betweener
program and trying to link it into my work flow using
Moray and POLYRAY was fun, but I noticed my models kept
wanting to get more and more organic and I wanted to be
able to animate control points in bezier patches,
etc...  I had had Hash AM before but found going from a
CSG/scripting background a spline-based modeller too
hard, but thought I'd try it again and lo and behold I
am modelling at full tilt now without problems and
LOVING all the additional power I have to animate.

For mathematical animation I still use POLYRAY and my
Tweener program and hand coding, but for character
animation, AM is pretty sweet.  I wouldn't want to be
in the middle of my current project using POV or
POLYRAY- I would not anywhere near as far into it as I
am already.

For me it isn't the raytracer per se (thought hat is
part of it) but in getting the data to the raytracer in
such a way that I am *animating* rather than
scripting/programming all the time.

-peter
-- 
http://www.users.qwest.net/~dearmad
Why bother?  I'm not interesting.
But... maybe "Ballet pour ma fille" will be.

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