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tibor, We had to animate an escalator about a year ago. the trick here is not to try and animate the whole process. All you really need is for each tread to move forward till it replaces the next tread. You need to animate each tread peice, only moving it to the position of the next tread. This set of keys is then looped. It actaullly doesn't take that long. Create another animation that can be cut in for the tread exploding. Many starting animator try to make it all happen with one project file. There is no need. You never see a movie shot in one long sequence. Animate out each sequence then cut them together. Hope this helps. Andrew Graphic Alchemy Interactive