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Now that you understand Rigging, time to bring

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in a character from adobe illustrator and get

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it ready for action in the project bin. Right.

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And I've just got magnus, and normally I would start a

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new project if I wanted to bring in a new puppet,

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but I do want to compare the new puppet to magnus.

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So I'm actually going to keep this same project going.

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So I'm going to go to file and import and

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in the project files, I'm going to import rawsource AI.

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So it's not a puppet file, it's an illustrator file.

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So this is the raw sort of illustrator vector

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graphics brought into character animator, and immediately it's turned

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it into a puppet, but I don't see it.

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So again, I'm going to drag it on down to the timeline.

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And you can see I actually have two

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puppets here, so I really don't want that.

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So I'm going to go ahead and delete magnus.

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That doesn't delete it from the

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project, just from the timeline.

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magnus is still with us.

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Okay, now right now, Rob is doing nothing.

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He's not moving because of two things.

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Number one, I need to turn the camera on.

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Number two, I need to arm Rob for recording.

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So if I click on Rob, notice

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that the little red dot comes on.

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And now I'm getting some motion tracking. Okay?

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So immediately, hopefully, you see that Rob is

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sort of floating in space, and that's not

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really what I'm looking to do.

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So let's talk about locking him down and

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why he floats and why magnus doesn't.

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I'm going to get a magnus here, double click on

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him, and that's going to bring up the rig panel.

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And notice that magnus has a

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head that's independent from its body.

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That is, when I select head, I get a

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big yellow circle around his sort of head, and

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then the body is actually just the feet.

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Now, if we compare this if we go back

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to our project panel, we compare this to Rob.

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Notice that when I click on rob's head,

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everything is one big yellow selection around it.

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Nothing is independent.

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That is, the head has not

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been made independent from the body.

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Okay, now, this is actually probably a good thing.

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And here's why.

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If I go in here and I make the

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head independent in this case, this is kind of

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a personal preference thing, but notice that now his

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head does rotate and his body does stay locked

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down, but frankly, I think that looks weird.

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So let's go ahead and undo that.

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So I go to my history and undo that, and

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let's actually just lock this part down and make him

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move a little bit more naturally and organically.

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To do that, I'm going to go back and double

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click on Rob, which is going to launch Rigging here.

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I could just click rig Two, though, and

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instead of making his head sort of float

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and his body sort of artificially stick.

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What you can do is you can select at the top

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level here, the Rob puppet, and use some of the great

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rigging tools down here to lock or fix certain things down.

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Now, you could use the pin tool, and that would pin

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a bunch of little spots here and change the mesh.

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Okay, so let's see what that see what that is?

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If I show the mesh right now, you can see there's a

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lot of tight mesh here and a lot of big space here.

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And we actually kind of want the opposite.

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We want all of this to get locked.

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Now, if I use the pins, you can see that the

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mesh gets tighter here, and that will lock it down.

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But I might need a lot of these,

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and it can get kind of busy looking.

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So a better way to do it I'll hit Command Z

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there a couple of times, is to use the stick tool.

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And what's nice about the Stick tool

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is that you can actually label the

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stick as one big fixed modified object.

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To do that, if I go over to modifiers here,

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you can see I could say, hey, let's make that

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fixed, and I'll get the little fixed tag.

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Okay, so let's go back and test drive.

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I go back to record and notice that he's

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moving a lot better, and I'm getting a little

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bit of that sort of nice little shoulder action.

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Okay, now, a couple of other

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little things I'd want to change.

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Right now, I'm seeing some weirdness here, so I

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need to move him down, and I'd really like

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his head not to scale quite so much.

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So another kind of classic thing you're going

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to need to do is play with some

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of the puppet behaviors over here.

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So I'm going to go to Face, and you

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can see there's a lot of options for Face.

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The big one right now that I'm seeing

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as I go back and forth is that

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the head looks really weird and disproportional.

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You can hit set, rest, pose, and the proportions

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are going to be better, but I just don't

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want it to ever sort of naturally scale.

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So under the face behavior, you can see I've got

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head scale strength, and if I crank it up or

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down, it's going to much more dramatically affect the scaling.

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I typically put this really low. Okay.

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So I'm putting it at 3%.

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All right.

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The next thing I'd probably want to do

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is move the whole character down, because he's

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actually touching the top of the frame.

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To do that, I need to just slide on down

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in the properties panel, and you can see that you

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can actually she just moved the puppet down.

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All right, so Rob is now sort of ready to roll.

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He's anchored down.

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Yeah, he's got a much more natural look to him,

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and he's in a good spot to start animating.