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  • Puppet Tool – Four Legged Animal to Torso Pairing?

    Posted by Gerald Hapeman on December 31, 2022 at 5:21 am

    Created a horse. Legs are separated from horse torso. Legs are puppeted fine, but want to “pick whip” or something to attach legs to torso, so that when I animate or move horse, the torso moves in conjunction with legs. How to attach legs to horse torso so that when I move legs and torso, they move together as one. Null layers, or is there something simpler? THANKS!!

    Graham Quince replied 3 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Graham Quince

    January 3, 2023 at 8:36 pm

    Because the puppet tool using the comp’s coordinates, I think the safest option would be to precompose the legs. That way you can reposition them. Alternatively, you’d need a toWorld expression to move the puppet values, but that could be quite time consuming to get right.

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