I don't want to get bogged down in 3d art. I just want to easily create 3d characters. I have milkshape. I see it can import Sims and Unreal characters. I also saw today a friend's Sim tool for creating characters. Seemed really easy - 100 times easier than Milkshape. So, what I want to do is easily create a character - in Sim/Unreal and import it into milskhape so I can do the animation for it - ie to get it walking/running and then export it in md2 format for my game. How easy is this ? I've made it sound simple - is it as easy as I said ? If so then which is easiest for mods - Sim or Unreal ? cheers Ade

If you're willing to pay, check out poser(www.curiouslabs.com). All you need and more.
It costs about 200 $ I believe.
If you don't want to get bogged down into 3d graphics, then I think Milkshape is not the tool to make your animations.