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All right, time to add some life to a

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puppet by using the physics behavior and Dangle feature.

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All right, so one of the biggest challenges for

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an animator is creating the illusion of life.

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There's even a book by that name,

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and you should check it out.

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And oftentimes what makes things feel alive is

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physics and what it's called secondary motion.

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So right now, our man Rob has earrings that

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are sort of stuck to his ears as well.

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His goatee just sort of feels very fixed.

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So what we're going to do is actually make his

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earrings dangle, and give his goatee a little sway, and

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we're going to do that right up here.

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So I'm going to go to rig, and here we go.

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What I'm going to do is I'm going to go to his base.

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That's basically his head there.

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So inside his head?

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Yeah, there's all these little parts, but the cranium.

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Yeah.

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That object is called base. Okay.

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Now, I realize it's all highlighting here.

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So if I made the base independent, you would see

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all of the objects that are contained in that.

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But again, this would make it kind of float awkwardly and

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not be attached, at least not in an organic way.

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Okay, so I've got the goatee, and I've got

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my earrings, I've got the ears, and what I

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want to do is let's start with the earring.

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So to make Dangle work within the physics behavior,

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first thing I'm going to do is zoom in. All right?

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And I'm zooming using the pinch, but

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you could use the magnifying glass or,

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you know, whatever you're comfortable with.

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But I'm going to move the anchor point for left earring

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to where it would actually attach, and the next thing I'm

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going to do is bust out the dangle tool.

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So the dangle tool is down here, and what

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it allows me to do is basically click where

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I would imagine the lowest point of that object

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feeling sort of the most weight.

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So this is going to serve as sort of

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an anchor, and then this is going to provide

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some sort of direction for it to Dangle. Okay.

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And it's that simple.

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So it's an independent object. Right.

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So back in, illustrator would have a plus next to

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the name, or I could just put the tag on

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here, and I've got an anchor point, and I've got

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a dangle tag, and I can see over in my

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tags panel here that physics dangle has been applied.

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Okay.

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If I go back to record, notice that it now

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dangles, but it looks a little bit kind of gooey.

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Okay, so let's change that over here in my puppet

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behaviors, which, by the way, you want to make sure

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that if you have rob's source selected, that's where you'd

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get the proper behaviors for that particular puppet.

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Okay, so if I go to my physics behavior

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for Rob, you could see that I've got gravity.

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I've got gravity direction.

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There's even wind.

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Lots of fun things we could do with these.

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But in addition to that, I have dangle in dangle.

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It's telling me that there is one dangle

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handle that's the dangle tag we just added.

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What I can do is say, hey, I really don't want

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it to be quite so gooey and sort of rubber like.

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So if I crank up the stiffness, you can see that

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it's getting less sort of diss, I don't know, deformed.

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Okay.

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And still has a little bit

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of that sort of swinging quality.

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Now, if I crank up things like the gravity,

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you can see it can get a little elongated.

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We could have no gravity, all right?

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But it gives it just a little bit of life.

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All right, now the challenge is I'm going to

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do the same thing, let's say, for the goatee.

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But physics has already been applied with these values.

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So I might want to have a different

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set of physics values for the goatee from,

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let's say, the rest of his head.

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So let's solve that problem.

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I'm going to go up to rig, and I'm going to

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go to his goatee, which also has the crown tag applied.

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And in other words, back in illustrator, it would

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have a little plus sign next to it.

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And again, if it doesn't, you can always

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add it in the rigging panel here.

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And what I'm going to do is I'm going to zoom out here.

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You can use the pan tools

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and the zoom tools right here.

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And what I'm going to do here is a little bit

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different because it's not just sort of one little spot.

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I need it to attach in multiple places.

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So I could start by grabbing just the selection

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tool, and that could anchor that spot down.

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But I really need these to be locked down, too.

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So what I'm going to do is grab the

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pin tool and establish a couple more fixed points.

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And with the pin tool, notice that I

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get a modifier that says, hey, that's fixed.

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So this is going to all be fixed,

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and I'm going to put dangles down here.

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So I'll grab the dangle tool, and

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let's put in a few of these.

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Okay.

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Now, if I go back to record, it

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will work, but it's not nearly enough, right?

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It's really not doing it.

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So what I want to do is go back and say for

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this particular object, the goatee, I need to add a behavior.

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So I'll select goatee, go down to behaviors, and I

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need to say that this has its own physics.

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So down here, I've got physics, and

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I can tell it for this object.

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There's a lot of gravity.

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Maybe it's got almost no stiffness, and we

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can readjust this, but it's telling me there

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are three handles that it's looking at.

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Let's start with that and just see how we did. Okay.

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And now you can see that the earrings dangling one

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way and the beard or the goatees dangling another way.

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And again, that would be something that would be

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very time consuming to have to keyframe and just

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gives things a little bit of life.