layered animations

[cosmic glen]

for a 2d game where i have like different layers for head, body and arms so that weapons and items look normal on a player, is there some kind of engine thing to make animations easier for this kind of scenario? or do i just have to brute force with three AnimatedSprite2D nodes and awkwardly make them sync up? any help would be really appreciated :)

[gentle kayak]

if you have sprite sheets, usually the separate parts all follow the same animation sequence

and you can just overlap then in engine

and if needed even merge them in engine