Modifying Stone Form

I'm am currently modifying Stone form into a hero skill. My major problem is getting triggers to play an animation when the hero changes into the stone form. The skill works perfectly but I can't get the animation to work. Every time the unit changes into stone form I want it to play the death animation. Then it comes back to life after healing itself. How could I get this to work?

You would need a death model. Try getting a modeler to make you a model with only the death animation in it.