Yea, Acadia,

That's kind of what I was getting at.  Sometimes you can use a 'control object' and parent that to the main figure.  Then you can animate the figure and have an extra level of animation/pose control with the control prop.

There's always a number of ways to skin a cat.  Not that any users here go around skinning cats.  Sorry, shouldn't have used that phrase ...

Best Wishes,
R

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