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Make characters lift objects

Make characters lift objects - Maya Tutorial

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Make characters lift objects

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- [George] Hi, I'm George Maestri and today we're going to take a look at animation. We're going to actually have this character lift up a ball. Now, I've had a lot of students who've actually struggled with this problem and it's really not that hard. So let me just take you through a simple procedure for having your character pick up something and then set it back down. So now we're going to go ahead to a similar scene. We're going to go to LiftObject.ma and this is the exact same scene except he's not lifting the object. So let's go ahead and make that happen. Now I'm going to jump out to my four view and I have a perspective view here so we can actually move around a little bit. Now when you lift an object from a character you can do it using a number of different techniques. Some people like to link the object and do kind of a constraint type thing. I find the easiest way to do this is to simply duplicate the object, and then hide it and unhide it. So let me show you how to do…

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