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Creating gaze control

Creating gaze control - Maya Tutorial

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Creating gaze control

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- [Instructor] We now have eye direction controls but we have two separate controls. So if I want to actually move the eyes together, I have to select two objects and animate two objects. And that's not really ideal. It's just one more thing that we need to animate. Now, typically when we animate the eyes, we will be animating them together. So let's create a master eye control or a gaze control. So I've already drawn a control here. It's this little box called CTL_EYES. And let's go ahead and move that so that it's centered to the two eye controls that we have. So I'm going to go ahead and move it here in the top view so that it's aligned with that center axis and that it's pretty much straight over the eyes. Now, I'm going to offset this just a little bit so that you can easily select this from a top or side view. And then I also need to move it down. So now, it's pretty much centered. So now, with this centered I do need…

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