Hello, this is my first post here on Newgrounds :)
I've begun animating a short little video with Madness Combat characters (not my image). Everything has gone fine so far, but now I'm stuck at a part where I want my character to draw a sword he has on his back. Here is a link to two screenshots I took so you can see more easier what I'm working with http://imgur.com/a/JxKWF I hid the head in the second pic so you can see more.
As you can see my character is about to draw the sword, but I can't figure out a good way to animate it. I made the body + the sword together into a symbol on the same layer (ee_body_side), so I don't have to manually put the sword on his back frame by frame. However now when I want him to draw the sword I need to separate the sword and the body from eachother, and then create a layer for his hand when it's behind his back, but the hand also needs to be in front the sword, and I also have to make a new layer just for the sword when it's not paired with the body. Then I have to bring back said hand & sword in front of the body before I can finally continue.
Sorry if you can't understand a word what I mean, but this is just so frustrating :( How do I go about doing this?
