More Good News About HPV

I've journaled about Carrageenan a few times, and how effective it seems to be at preventing HPV, even though it's still in trials, apparently, all signs very strongly point towards its effectiveness.  Now it appears as though there's another product being tested.  Where carrageenan just happens to be an ingredient already commonly found in lubes, this product is created and being tested specifically for it's anti-HIV, anti-HSV, and anti-HPV properties. 

http://newsstore.smh.com.au/apps/previewDocument.ac?docID=GCA00910884SPL

"Showing that VivaGel has activity against all major clinically relevant strains of HPV tested so
far, in particular those strains not covered by the current cervical cancer vaccines, further
strengthens the growing body of evidence demonstrating the efficacy of SPL7013 against several
important STIs."

The active ingredient, SPL7013, so far is inhibiting HPV-16 and -18, which are the two cancer-causing strains found in Gardasil, the Merk vaccine currently approved in the US, which make up 70% of the cancer cases.  It also inhibits the two warts-causing strains, HPV-6 and -11 that Gardasil inhibits.

PLUS it is showing signs of inhibiting HPV-31 and -45, which cause 4% of cancers. 

This is fantastic news, especially as we are starting to hear rumblings about vaccines becoming too expensive to produce for the vaccine companies to continue carrying.  If they start discontinuing vaccines because of the cost, we will need some other line of defense, and a topical microbe, particularly if it can simply be added to lubricants, is a very convenient method of application.

So, until VivaGel makes it to the market, everyone go out and buy some Carrageenan lube!

3D Animation Engine

I would like to make videos of 3D animated scenes using humanoid (but not fantasy) characters.  This means either clearly human people, or people-symbols/cartoon characters.  I want my characters to be fairly generic, and if I go the symbol/cartoon route, gender-neutral is fine too.  I have absolutely no 3D programming experience whatsoever.  Ideally, I would like some kind of program that already has a library of 3D characters and settings that I can just load up and give commands to, things like "walk over to this location" and "hug that person" and "get angry".  I can then use screen recording software to record the animation.

I also don't want to pay any money for this, as it's a side project and not intended to make me any income, so suggestions of where to purchase the Sims, for instance, won't help (although a program like the Sims would probably do what I'm looking for).

The only other alternative is for me to learn how to do 3D animation on my own, which I am currently attempting to do, but there's a learning curve and I'm impatient.  I'm a cinematographer and camera operator, not a graphic artist.

So, any suggestions on open-source or free or "borrowed" software or names of stuff I can search for on Piratebay?  Simple programs that will, one way or another, end up with a final product in .avi format.