[Mike Williams]

Thanks for the fast response!

I ended up just splitting the layers, which, while inelegant, got the job done. Thanks a lot for your help tho!

-Mike

[Mike Williams]

Hello Dan,

Ive been looking everywhere to answer a certain question, and this thread is the closest I could find. Maybe you can help me out…

Quick setup:
I am trying to animate a hand/arm pulling a playing card from a deck, then throwing it across a table. I have the card parented to the hand as it pulls it from the deck, but I want to animate the position of the card (to slide from hand, across the table) without it being parented to anything at all.

I am wondering if there is a way to “toggle” the parenting of a layer on/off. Basically, to have a single layer go from having a parent of “hand” at frame A, to having NO parent at frame B.

The work-around I am using now is to have a duplicate of the card layer which has not parent, and to cut from one to the other in the timeline. This works, but is very cumbersome and results in a lot of layers and a messy workflow.

Any help would be awesome! Thanks!