Thanks jenay... it was alot of work, but it did work pretty well. Duane... if I can find the files I'll zip them up and put them on my site. Right now I don't know if I still have them or not. I think I may have lost them when I had a hard drive die. I have a bunch of cds so I may have put the files on one of them. Dizzo... the only way I know to make a body part follow a prop is to create a new IK chain using the prop as the root and turning on IK for that limb. The only other way I know of is to keyframe the leash movements with the hand and arm movements. More time consuming, but probably easier than trying to do with a new IK chain. Also the animation will not play in Windows Media Player. I use a pc, but most of the animations I post are in QT format. You need to use the QT player to see it. It's compressed with the Sorenson 2 codec. Ed