I’ll try your suggestions.
Being new at ProAnimator, I hadn’t thought of wrapping a custom edge around a stick.
If I have to redraw it, I will. That’s easy compared to the work we did to create a dozen realistic bowling pin surface textures. The pin is really 2 objects: the pin body and the base.
I saw a bowling pin on your site. I emailed you an example of what we have been doing. We’re making animations for Brunswick scoring systems. Proanimator excites me because of the ease of animating text – like “SPARE” or “Perfect Game” and it has true shadows that fall on objects (which Cool 3D doesn’t have)