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The cycle layers behavior is the most versatile

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behavior in all of character animator and can

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take your puppet to a whole nother level.

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So instead of just having like a popup exclamation

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or hardeyes, we can actually do framebyframe animation with

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a trigger using the cycle layers behavior.

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Okay, so let's do it with the hardy.

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So let's make them kind kind of get bigger and cycle

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through different sizes to give it a little more life.

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Okay, so I'm going to go to magnus

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and I'm going to go to Edit Original.

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So what I want to do is actually I'm

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going to duplicate these hard eyes a few times.

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So I'll turn the visibility on, select that

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group, and I'm going to hit Command C.

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Then I'm going to hit Command F.

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That would be controlc.

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Control F on a PC and the F is paste in front,

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so that allows it to paste right on top of it rather

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than Control V, which would be the middle of the screen.

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So that's a good one to know.

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The next thing I need to do

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is I actually want to rename these.

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So it's going to be a cycle.

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So I want it to start maybe this

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size and then it's going to get bigger.

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So I'm double clicking and just renaming

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it these sort of three different steps.

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But right now nothing really would change

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because they're all the same size.

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So maybe step one is this size, but

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step two, I want them to be bigger.

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Now there's a few ways we could scale these up.

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Simplest way would probably be switching now

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to the Black arrow and holding down

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option and shift and scaling them up.

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Okay, so step two, they're bigger and then

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step three, if I select that layer I

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could make them even bigger still.

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So again I'm holding down option

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and shift together right up.

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Now these would sort of shoot out from the middle.

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I could make the hearts have the same

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centers but let's just test drive that. Okay?

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So now that I've got the sort of cycle

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of one, two, three steps or sizes, let's go

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ahead and get all of these in one group.

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So I'm going to hold down shift here, select all

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three of those layers and hit command g again.

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That would be control G on a PC

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and I'm going to rename this parts.

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Okay, now when I go back to File and Save, when

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we cruise back to character animator and I hit that same

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button, I get all of them at the same time.

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And I don't want that, I want it to actually

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go through those three steps one at a time. Okay?

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To do that I'm going to go to rig and

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I'm going to go to the hearts layer and I'm

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going to say I want to cycle through that, I

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want to cycle through these one, two, three steps.

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And to do that I'm going to go over and add a behavior.

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And again, that behavior is called cycle layers.

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When I apply that, you can see there are some defaults

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which will test drive right now and it'll work okay.

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And it's still going to be triggered by the letter S,

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because Hearts has the same name that it had before.

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If I did change the name, I would have to sort of

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rebuild that trigger, but it just kept the name the same.

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So that's why it still works.

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But when I go to record and I hit S, it

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just kind of shoots out one time and it's very fast.

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So let's go ahead and customize that a little bit.

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So instead of it shooting out quite so fast, I might

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say, hey, instead of 30 frames per second and having only

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one frame, maybe I'll do it at two frames, which means

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that it would be playing back at 15 frames per second.

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So it's going to give a little more time

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and I don't want it to happen just once.

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I want it to happen continuously.

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So as long as I hold the button

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down, it's going to loop through that cycle.

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Let's go ahead and see what's what that does.

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So when I go back to record and I hit D, just

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getting S, you can see I get that nice little animation.

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And so you can see how using the cycle layers

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behavior can take your triggers to a whole other level.