There IS a tutorial out there, somewhere... while I'm searching for it in another window, I'll give a brief lowdown on how this is done. I've done a similar trick before with someone dealing cards, moving a card from the deck, to the hand, to the table. Ok, the links at the top of the page. Now, to summarise... To do what you want to do (drawing the sword from the scabbard), you actually need TWO sword props. One remains parented to your character's hand, the other to the sheath/thigh. See, the thing is that you can't change parents mid-animation... what you CAN do is animate the transparency of the two objects. At the beginning, set the transparency of the sword in your character's hand to 1 (transparency edge to 1 as well), with the sheathed sword fully visible. Create the movements for your character as normal. Now, at the point where your figure grabs hold of the sword, swap the transparency settings over. Before doing this, make sure that the trans channels are set to animatable. Finally, you want to make sure that there's a sharp transition from invisible to visible. To do this, either step back a frame, and reset the channels to the frame one settings, or go into the animation palette, and change the interpolation style for the two swords' transparencies to the linear selection. Hope this helps. jonthecelt