From the course: Maya: Character Rigging
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Connecting body controls - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Maya: Character Rigging
Connecting body controls
- [Lecturer] With our body and pelvis controls in place, we can now connect everything together. So, let's zoom in here and I'm actually going to turn my geometry to template here so we can kind of see everything. Now, let's take a look at the outliner. So, I've got these two here are actually outside of the main hierarchy. So, I'm going to go ahead and left click and middle click and drag them above control main, and then, I'm going to take the pelvis middle click and drag that above the body, so now it's a child of that and then the hips left and right, middle click and drag them below the pelvis. So, now we have our control structure. So, how this works is that the body control basically is for main positioning of the body. The pelvis control is a place where we can kind of just wiggle the hips. So, there are many times when you'll need to tilt the hips left or right or whatever. And then these lower controls hips left…
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