Quote - Hmm, my plan was to finalize everything from the neck down in 124, and take care of the head parts later on while making expressions. I guess it couldn't hurt to have a look at the broken actor parenting and try to fix that, but fine-tuning the JPs will definitely have to wait until 125.

Whilst there are lots of things one might do with the tongue. It's important to realise that the tongue (or more correctly the jawLower) is one place where Antonia is seriously broken. I think imediate remedial action is called for. Refinements to the tongue, if they are to come at all, can wait till later, but the problem should be fixed so that tongue1 is at least usable.

The problem is that any rotation of the tongue1 actor causes the same rotation of the jawLower. Apart from this being totally contrary to real annatomy, it also means that the tongue1 effectively can not be posed. The problem is not with the parenting, it is a problem with the JPs in the jawLower actor. The solution is quite simple. Delete the JP channels in the jawLower that have tongue1 as 'otherActor', namely:

twistZ tongue1_twistz
jointY tongue1_jointy
jointX tongue1_jointx
smoothScaleZ tongue1_smooZ