I had a chance to speak with Ray Hansell at Marastar and they are doing some exciting new things with animations such as allowing them to be offered a hosted model, etc. You can perpetually license the animation library as well. He tells me there will be some exciting news coming form the company soon. They are working on a an entirely new use of animation that can be easily forwarded. The idea is to get you up and running as soon as possible with animation. I first wrote about Marastar back in August of 2004.