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Connecting the jaw control

Connecting the jaw control - Maya Tutorial

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Connecting the jaw control

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- [Narrator] Now let's move on to the lower portion of the face. We're going to work with the jaw, and we're going to rig that to this control. So before we get started, let's go ahead and make sure our control is in the hierarchy and zeroed out. So, I'm going to go into windows outliner and you'll see I have my control jaw here, and I want that to be a child of this control, which is my control head. So let's select that, metal click and drag and make sure that those are all connected. So now when I move my head, those controls move with it. Now this jaw control, I want it to manipulate some joints. So in my layers panel, I'm going to turn on joints and let's turn on x-ray joints. So, I want this to be controlled by this. So, joint jaw one is what manipulates my jaw. So if I were to rotate this, you could see I can open the jaw or move it side to side, just through basic rotation. Now I could rig this,…

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