Thanks for your suggestion. I didn't see it before my second post. Any clue to what I'm doing wrong that's causing the second problem?

Well, of course, shortly after posting this I discovered one solution. I had been translating the hat's layer and I switched to translating the points. It's easier that way. I'm still curious to see if there's a simpler solution as this entails many, many trips to the timeline to keep them aligned. ...

How would you have a character remove his hat? I created a character and gave him arms and filled in the bones. I created a hat in another layer (I am using an image as the face and need to have the hat over the face so I could not create the hat in the same layer as his body or his body would be ov...