Hi remus,

I tried your suggestion. I found out that the smiley in the 3D warehouse is very big in size, measured in feet. So I used the scale tool and knocked the image size down to 2 inches and also the window. I then exported it as a bitmap.
I then used Pro Motion to make the background transparent and saved it with a png ext. I then brought it into my Visual Basic 2008 application and the background was transparent.

Now I have to some animation.

Thanks very much for your help.

In case anyone reading and need some more explanation, I am more than willing to do so.

Douglas.