Aarronn Wrote:ah thank you
i've just obtained a copy of cs4 but ill try to get cs5 too, so i can get back to animating
CS4 should be fine for the immediate future; the problem is that Adobe in their infinite wisdom have decided that CS5 shouldn't allow saving in CS3 format, even though nothing has fundamentally changed with the file-format, it'll open CS3 files just fine but only saves as CS4 or CS5 which sucks immensely.
So I think ultimately CS4 will be the minimum version as it's easy to save, and it also is the minimum version for bones support, which many animators may find far easier for building scenes once characters or character pieces are rigged properly.
I'll add this point to the FAQ actually...