2 decent questions about animating

ok, i know im prolly gonna get yelled at or pointed to another post, but can someone give me a direct answer:

1, what do you do to "lock" your avatar to the animation? so that when you use the animation to move your avatars arms, when you type the invisible typing motion does not happen, or when you look around your avatars head doesnt track to the mouse?

2, is there anything you can do in SL that will stop your avatar from sinking into the floor when usign certain animations? i curently use a "kid sized" avatar and when i use a free sit animation it sinks me into the floor, this is quite annoying and i was wondering is there anything you can do about it in sl OTHER then making my avatar normal size?

thanks in advance

~Icey

#1. When importing the animation, set priority to 4, which is the highest. Also make sure EVERY body part has been moved in frame 2. IF you don't, your animation will not take over from the default SL animations. (and yes the answer to this is all over the forums)

#2. Using a much smaller sized avie and a "normal" sized pose will have issues for you. I would suggest that either buying/making child poses would be your best fix. You could try throwing it into a pose ball and adjusting that to make it right, but not so sure that it'll work.