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Getting the fingers to curl

Getting the fingers to curl - Maya Tutorial

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Getting the fingers to curl

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- [Instructor] Now let's go ahead and connect up the attributes that we created to our fingers to make them curl. So again, we've got this control here and I've got a fingerCurl attribute that I can animate. So let's go into our Outliner. So I've got these Offsets and those are what we're going to use to curl those fingers. So let's start with the index finger because we can see it easiest. I'm going to Shift select the Offsets and then the finger control. And let's go into the Node Editor. So I'm going to go ahead and clear it out and hit plus. And so what I've got is I've got this control fingers and then each one of these Offsets. So what I want to do is if I select control fingers, you'll see in the Channel Box I have that fingerCurl attribute. Then if I expand this, you'll see that way down here I've got that fingerCurl and finger spread. So I want to take this and plug it into an attribute in that Offset.…

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