Help with subgroup animation

[BobSynfig]

Hi and welcome here
You could extract the sword and use converters to link it to the rest.
For example you can check here:

Masking a layer with layers from a lower group

I don’t think you can proceed like this. Group A (and its children) will always be above Group B (an its children). Instead of this you could try to create supplementary groups, place them interleave and link origin points together. From top to bottom: Group ATop (with the 2 top A layers) Group BTop (with 2 top B layers) Group ABottom (with bottom layer of group A) Group BBottom (with the lower B layer) Link origins of ATop and ABottom Link origins of BTop and BBottom Now animate only AT…