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Make View | Frame Selected work for subobject selections.

I suppose you could have like in scene mode where the camera can follow a tagged object, so instead of having to move, turn, move, turn you could snap to object and then just move.
hmm... that actually sounds good.

Some programs have the option of automatically using the current selection as the focal point, and some (Animation:Master) even enforce this. That's one way to approach it.

IK would make this setup a piece of cake.

I hate having to rotate the camera to move it forward to then rotate it back, it seems counter-intuitive.

Sure does. I wasn't suggesting that.
You are referring to camera panning (moving up, down, left and right—RMB inside the circle); in this case, the point of interest should certainly follow the camera, as you rightly state.
And I was talking about dollying (moving the camera forward and backward—RMB outside the circle); here, the point of interest shouldn't change.

JunkerKun
You can use a setup where the upper arm has two bones at the shoulder, and one bone is the child of the other. You animate the parent bone, and configure the child to automatically compensate for the parent's rotation. The child bone affects the vertices nearer the shoulder, and the parent bone the vertices nearer the elbow.
That said, I'm not sure Anim8or would let you rig it like that.
And note what Water Music says about the collar bone. The pose in your screenshot is impossible. You can't lift your arms like that and not have your shoulders come up above the height of your chin.

jwalt
Start by getting used to the Blender counterparts of the Anim8or tools you use. Then gradually add other Blender tools that come in handy. You'll find yourself outgrowing Anim8or in no time.

May I suggest a rework of modelling transformations?
Consider the following concept:

• All three subobject types are transformable, not just associated vertices. This is important for normal-based transforms. Currently, you can't even rotate a face.
• The following transforms are available for all subobject types: move (X/Y/Z, XY/XZ/YZ, normal, normal planar), rotate (X/Y/Z, normal, view), scale (uniform, X/Y/Z, XY/XZ/YZ, normal, normal radial). Some of these are currently not available.
• For each contiguous selected "island", use the centroid as the transformation centre. Whenever this behaviour is not desirable, convert your selection to vertices, and the centroid of the entire selection is used. Currently, transforms use only the object centre.
• Unlike centroids, the normals of all selected elements remain independent, and positions of shared vertices adjust during transforms.
• Some hotkeys are mapped to axis constraints. For example, F1–F5 for X, Y, Z, Normal, Radial/Planar Normal.
• The transform centre and vector can be customised. (However, this is likely to require widgets, which can rub some users the wrong way.) Not an essential feature, but extremely useful.

I apologise if these notes are incoherent, but the ideas in them are not in the least abstract, and they all have real easy-to-demonstrate implementations. I'm prepared to explain each point in detail if you're interested.