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Arms and hands

Arms and hands

From the course: Learning Character Animation

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Arms and hands

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Now that we have the spine animated, let's go ahead and continue moving up the body to the arms. So, let's go ahead and play what we have, right now. And as you can see, we've got pretty good spine motion. But, nothing going on in the arms. So, let's go ahead and correct that. So, you're going to scroll back to the beginning. And let's go ahead and start with the right arm. So the right foot is back, so the right arm will be forward. So let's go ahead and rotate this down. Get's this into a more natural position. And bring it forward. So I'm going to go ahead and rotate that forward and maybe angle it in just a little bit. But what I'm trying to do is, is I'm trying to get the hand a slightly in front of the body. So I'm going to go ahead and rotate that elbow up. And again, we've got that hand in front of the body. And then I'm going to take the hand and curve it in. Just a little bit. So, again I'm trying to get this slightly in front of the body. And maybe a little bit down like…

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