WEBVTT 00:00.240 --> 00:03.870 In this lesson, we're going to create the finger joints for the hands, so that will have something 00:03.870 --> 00:04.470 to use there. 00:04.890 --> 00:06.180 Let's go to the top. 00:06.180 --> 00:08.690 You holding down spacebar, left clicking and go to top. 00:08.700 --> 00:16.080 You will usually create joints tool and we'll go over here and just start from the joint that we want 00:16.080 --> 00:16.740 it to be from. 00:17.190 --> 00:18.150 So I'll click here. 00:19.270 --> 00:23.100 I'll hold down, shift click and I'll hold on shift and click at the end. 00:23.490 --> 00:27.570 When I hit enter, I'm done creating it, so I'm actually just going to duplicate this over. 00:29.390 --> 00:38.630 To help speed up the process and hitting command to duplicate and right now they're not all lining up 00:38.630 --> 00:45.290 because we did it based on one, but the one I'm not going to duplicate. 00:45.290 --> 00:49.850 Is this because we don't want any rotations on our joint to start with? 00:49.850 --> 00:50.870 We don't want that. 00:50.870 --> 00:55.090 So let's delete that and create the thumb from scratch. 00:55.910 --> 00:56.930 So I'm going to click here. 00:57.810 --> 01:02.180 I'm going to click here and click here. 01:02.210 --> 01:08.360 I'm not holding down shift because I want it to follow the direction that I'm creating the joints. 01:08.390 --> 01:13.100 And so now you can see there's no rotations on the joint that we made there. 01:13.600 --> 01:18.470 Let's just adjust these joints by hitting W on the keyboard and moving the joints to where they need 01:18.470 --> 01:18.800 to be. 01:20.180 --> 01:26.000 And let's learn about how to name joints, we go up here and we start naming joints from up here, but 01:26.000 --> 01:29.930 there's also a kind of a newer tool in my eye called joint labeling. 01:30.170 --> 01:36.140 And we can add joint labels as we need them so we can actually show them as well, so we can kind of 01:36.140 --> 01:41.170 see how we're doing it or we can just follow along from that and or in the channel box. 01:41.450 --> 01:46.010 So from the joint, from the skeleton menu up here, which we got to from here that I just tore off, 01:47.120 --> 01:49.220 we can get to it from joint labeling. 01:49.460 --> 01:52.850 I can tear that one off as well and just get rid of that one if that's what we want to do. 01:53.390 --> 01:54.920 And we can add Joint Labels. 01:55.310 --> 01:59.990 And this is the left, even though we're kind of looking at it from the front always we want to call 01:59.990 --> 02:00.670 this the left. 02:00.680 --> 02:01.550 This is his left hand. 02:01.910 --> 02:04.460 So we're going to use the left label. 02:05.120 --> 02:10.280 But we also want it to have the right pinky and finger names. 02:10.670 --> 02:17.830 So if I click the joint here and I say label Pinky, nothing really happens if we say so. 02:17.840 --> 02:24.620 All labels, we can see that it actually did name it pinky finger and these have non assigned to it, 02:24.920 --> 02:29.600 but it didn't change the actual name of the joint and that's different from the label. 02:29.600 --> 02:37.180 But we can say rename joints from labels and that will change the pinky finger over here. 02:37.550 --> 02:43.100 So it's going to name it the same though, which is not ideal. 02:43.520 --> 02:48.350 You know, it says center pinky finger for each one of these and that's not accurate. 02:48.830 --> 02:54.030 So let's call it a left and let's rename that. 02:54.050 --> 02:56.480 So now instead of center, it says Left Pinky Finger. 02:56.870 --> 03:06.620 And we can just also rename these with either a number or we can do it with saying, you know, in joint 03:06.620 --> 03:07.370 or something like that. 03:07.370 --> 03:12.650 I'm just going to do numbers for now for simplistic sake so we can do the same thing for the rest of 03:12.680 --> 03:13.310 the fingers here. 03:13.310 --> 03:14.840 And I'll speed this up and I'll be right back. 03:23.800 --> 03:28.030 Great, now we've labeled all the fingers, but there's also one thing I want to point out real quick. 03:28.300 --> 03:35.830 You can see that when we created joints in a straight line that go along and axis that is linear to 03:35.830 --> 03:42.700 X or Z or Y or whatever, as long as it's in that straight line, the end joints here are also line 03:42.700 --> 03:42.880 up. 03:42.890 --> 03:49.930 You can see these kind of cross hairs in the center of the joint indicate which direction the joint 03:49.930 --> 03:50.790 is oriented. 03:51.400 --> 03:56.710 But if we look at the thumb down here and we look at this bottom one, that one state oriented to the 03:56.710 --> 04:00.900 world, it goes straight across when these are going down the length of the thumb. 04:01.360 --> 04:02.150 And why is that? 04:02.170 --> 04:08.980 That's because joints only get to point in the direction they're going next, basically. 04:08.980 --> 04:13.750 So because there's no joint out here that's saying, hey, point in this direction, this joint doesn't 04:13.750 --> 04:14.700 know which way to point. 04:14.710 --> 04:16.450 So it's just going to stay in WorldSpace. 04:16.690 --> 04:18.220 So that's just something to keep in mind for later. 04:18.640 --> 04:24.040 OK, so now we have our fingers done and they're labeled and we can just say high labels for now. 04:24.730 --> 04:28.600 What we need to do is parent them to the system that we've already created. 04:28.810 --> 04:32.980 But before we do that, we need to get them in place because we got a perspective view. 04:32.980 --> 04:38.530 You can see that we actually drew them on the ground there so we can shift select them and. 04:41.650 --> 04:48.250 And drag them up to the actual hand, we can go to a right view or a front view and we can try to get 04:48.250 --> 04:50.140 them exactly where they need to be. 04:51.460 --> 04:58.360 And it looks like the thumb might be not exactly lined up, so we can go over here to the front view 04:58.840 --> 05:00.670 and do that from that view. 05:01.030 --> 05:01.200 Cool. 05:01.250 --> 05:06.130 So when we look at this from the perspective, you can see that, you know, it's not connected to anything. 05:06.130 --> 05:09.260 Or if we were to rotate this joint, those don't follow along, obviously. 05:09.640 --> 05:12.400 And so what we can do is just select all of these and parent them. 05:12.400 --> 05:16.330 Before we do that, though, we want to go ahead and mirror these over. 05:16.630 --> 05:17.770 So let's go to the mirror tool. 05:17.770 --> 05:24.490 We'll go up to skeleton mirror joints and we click the little square to get the option box to open up 05:24.490 --> 05:24.760 here. 05:25.150 --> 05:32.020 And what we can do is say search for a name and replace it with this. 05:32.020 --> 05:35.740 And what we've already seen is that it's labeled everything with left. 05:35.740 --> 05:38.830 And we want to change it to right because it's going to we're going to mirror it over to the other hand 05:38.830 --> 05:40.540 so we don't have to recreate all of these things. 05:40.840 --> 05:43.630 And we need to choose the mirror cross which axes. 05:43.630 --> 05:45.490 And if we look at this, it says x Y right now. 05:45.790 --> 05:47.420 And that is this direction. 05:47.420 --> 05:52.510 If we're looking at this little icon down here, if we line up X and Y, that's front to back. 05:52.510 --> 05:53.050 We don't want that. 05:53.050 --> 05:57.820 We want side to side, which here would be like Y and Z are. 05:57.880 --> 05:59.230 And so that's the one in the middle. 05:59.450 --> 06:04.120 So if we hit a play with all of those selected, it doesn't work. 06:04.450 --> 06:05.820 There's too many arguments. 06:05.830 --> 06:11.350 So just, you know, using our brain, we can say, all right, maybe we can't have everything selected, 06:11.350 --> 06:11.770 boom. 06:11.770 --> 06:13.300 We, you know, click one. 06:13.300 --> 06:14.200 And it actually worked. 06:14.490 --> 06:20.200 So let's just go through these one by one and mirror them over and then we can verify that they are 06:20.200 --> 06:25.450 in the right place by taking a look at them hitting F to focus up on it and make sure everything is 06:25.690 --> 06:28.240 named correctly and right. 06:28.240 --> 06:31.840 Pinky finger, everything is named as we would expect. 06:32.050 --> 06:32.470 Cool. 06:32.770 --> 06:36.930 So that just saved us a ton of time because we didn't have to create that all over again. 06:37.630 --> 06:42.220 And now what we can do is select all the joints and joints themselves. 06:42.220 --> 06:44.260 We don't want to select these at the top. 06:44.260 --> 06:47.620 We just want to select the most parent joint, which is the one at the top here. 06:48.190 --> 06:53.140 And then we shift select this risk joint and we can hit P and it creates all those connections. 06:53.140 --> 06:54.280 We can visually see that. 06:54.520 --> 07:00.640 And now if we were to rotate this joint, we can see that the hand actually moves as we would expect 07:00.640 --> 07:03.630 it to, and now it follows the forearm and the rest of the skeleton. 07:04.090 --> 07:04.420 Cool. 07:04.450 --> 07:09.310 So the next lesson, we're going to continue to rig this and take a look at some new rigging things.