When you start an animation, you might want to go to the first frame on the animation palette, click the radio button that applies to All Frames and click the green/Linear interpolation button. All the cells should turn green instead of orange. The default setting is Spline interpolation (orange cells), which can give more realistic movement between keyframes, but also tends to overshoot the keyframe's pose, producing those weird movements. HTH - Elisa/gryffnn