You need to play with a simple animation first. Create a new scene and load a cube primitive and a cone primitive from props. Position them however you like, cone above cube but not touching is good. Parent the cone to the cube. Now record keyframe for frame 1. Move to frame 30, move the cube (cone moves as well since it is parented to the cube) record the keyframe. press previous keyframe button and play animation. (cube and cone move together) Now goto frame 31 - change parenting of cone prop to universe. record keyframe. goto frame 60 move cube (cone does not move) move cone position it somewhere away from cube. record keyframe now return to frame 1 ** do not move anything ** play animation you should get cube and cone moving together until frame 30 and then they move seperatly until frame 60 (the end) when learning animations play with the keyframe editor, note what is recorded at each keyframe, have a look at the result of the different interpolation types.