Question on How to Separate Meshes Into Multiple, Disconnected Meshes So I'm very new to Blender and was looking to use it to create some sword fight/lightsaber fight actions scenes. However, I'm running into issues with separating body parts for models.

For example, let's say Luke's hand gets cut off by Darth Vader. How do I go about detaching his hand from the rest of his body so that it can be lying on the ground, separate from the rest of his model? I believe that essentially I'd be creating a new model or mesh, but I'm not certain how to do this from an existing mesh.

Any help or links to tutorials would be appreciated. Thanks!
Enter in edit mesh, deselect all, move the mouse over the object that you want to separate, use "L" as a shortcut and you will have a select option. After you select what you want to separate use "P" as shortcut and click on separate. Repeat this for every object that you want to separate.