Good format and library for model loading and animation

[luuse]

Hey

I need to load a model and do some very basic skeletal animations and i'm looking around for which file format to use and what existing tools there are out there.

Can anyone recommend a good file format that supports animation and/or a lightweight library to load models and animate them.

I've been looking at .obj and collada but .obj doesn't seem to support animation and I can't find a java implementation for collada.

Regards,
Andreas

[kappa]

have a look at ardor3d http://ardor3d.com/