From the course: Using Character Animator in Production

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Make an arm go in front of and behind a character

Make an arm go in front of and behind a character - Character Animator Tutorial

From the course: Using Character Animator in Production

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Make an arm go in front of and behind a character

- When your character is rigged in the standard way, with the head group in front of the body group, your character's arms will tend to reach behind the head. So how do you make an arm or leg go in front of the head? (snappy music) So this arm is rigged normally, with a dragger handle on the hand, and as long as I drag it around, it'll reach behind the head, and this is because in the rigging layout, it's on a lower layer than the head. So let's take a look. Go to Rig, and you'll see the head layer here, the body layer below, and within the body, all the different arms, and that's his right arm, and it's in particularly the Reach right arm, which obviously is below the head. So I have another arm that I created. I called it TouchFace, so it can touch the top of the face. I'll turn it on down here. You see, here it is. I also have a dragger already on it. I've got the dragger tool down here. Just click on this grouping. I'm going to turn that off. So now we need to rig this so that we…

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