From the course: Blender: Character Rigging with BlenRig
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Shape keys for the legs - Blender Tutorial
From the course: Blender: Character Rigging with BlenRig
Shape keys for the legs
- [Instructor] To create a shape key for the thigh let's go ahead and come over here to the shape keys panel and click the plus and add a new shape key and I'll call this thigh underscore bend underscore L. And now I can take one of these and just copy the value, copy driver, and let's paste it into the new thigh bend shape key. Paste right here. And now if I come up here and click it updates and you can see the thigh bend driver here. Now we need to know what bone we're going to use for this. If we go back to our list of shape key bones we can see here we have a thigh driver, DRV, so let's use that one. I'll come back to the outliner and I'll type in thigh underscore DRV and here we see the bones for the left and the right. I'll go ahead and select the one on the left and when I do it's selected, but since it's hidden we can't see it. So if I scroll up here I can see the armature layers. And anytime there is an object within the layer selected it lights up orange just like this. So…
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