How to Animate a Lip Ring To Move with Mouth Morphs?

I have created a lip ring for a character. I need for the lip ring to follow the movements of the character’s mouth as this will be an animated work. Like, when I use the shape key morph for let’s say, ‘Mouth Open’, how can I get the lip ring to follow the ‘Mouth Open’ morph?

And, because the lip ring also includes a chain attachment, is there any way that I can get the chain to swing with the movements of the character?

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! :slight_smile:

~Pixie*

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The lip ring, and each chain link need to be separate objects. Select the lip ring, then shift select the face and <tab> into edit mode. Select the nearest vertex on the lip and do Ctrl-P to parent the lip ring to that vertex. Then use a rigid body sim on the chain links, and let the physics engine handle the chain.