[Dylan Byrne]

Hello! I’m tagging onto this post too, hope that’s ok.

So I’ve been trying to use this expression but I’m having problems. Here’s my situation:

I am making a fake hand puppet in AE, it is doing a running sequence (loop).

I have a torso, that rotates up and down as it runs, connected to that I have two upper arms that rotate and then two fore arms with hands that also rotate.

What I want to do is attach my fake puppet strings to the forearms to make it look like they are controlling the arms – basically they are vertical strings that I want to follow the position of the forearms but not the rotation of them or any of the other parents.

Looked at simply I have

Parent 1 rotating (torso) > Parent 2 rotating (upper arms) > Parent 3 rotating (Forearms) > Child – not rotating (strings)

What seems to happen when I use this expression is it removes the immediate parent’s rotation but then inherits the rotation from the parent above it. Any thoughts? I hope this is clear enough 😉

thanks a lot!

Dylan