Hi, Please see both screen captures https://louiseeaton.com/shade001.jpg https://louiseeaton.com/shadeconnection.jpg As you can see in Shade001.jpg, I have two things going on. Firstly, I have a velvety shader on the bones mapped to the translucent node. Then for an effect, I wanted the bones to appear from bottom to top in an animation. As you can see, it is working on the bones but the translucency is still showing throughout. I cannot figure out how to fix this. If you check the second pic, that is my shading network. Can someone please help!! Thanks, Cathleen