That's what I end up doing. Just parent a copy of the object to the hand and hide one when the other is visible, and cut to the next scene just before it picks up stuff during post production. It's a work around somthing that should be no problem at all. I really had planned to have the character show how it gracefully picks up things (zoomed in and even in slowmo).

I'll break down the model till I found the problem-node Pony mentioned about.
Still not sure what the "nad's tranlations not reset" is about though. Pony?