hi guys, thanks for the suggestions. there was one i hadn't seen before. they all look great. however, there were a few problems with some. they seemed to only work in certain apps. so i should have said i also need a standalone gui. the other was i didn't see animation. i'm just talking simple rotations. so i have some where the part rotates 360 about it's axis and then the camera rotates about the object in 360 as well. not complicated animations like for movies. anyways, simlab composer pro seems to fit the bill. but when i tried it out a few years ago it could only do 'realistic' renderings. those take a long time to solve on my laptop per frame. so it wasn't possible to do the animations i needed. i don't know if they have any materials that will render fast. even simple clay like or color like stuff. with no reflections, shadows, etc. the main thing is just a few seconds per frame on a 400x400 pixel image. ideally if it output gif that would be fantastic. with keyshot 6.3 i have been outputting png files and using a website to take those and make the gif.

to give an idea of the type of simple renderings i'm talking about. you can find them on my website https://propdesign.jimdofree.com there are various toons when i just want a fast render. a few actual renderings. and a few small toon gifs. i want to switch from rhino v5 to moi v4. so i don't want something that is a rhino plugin. i want to uninstall rhino. i literally can't stand it.