WEBVTT 00:00.210 --> 00:05.790 In this lesson, I'm going to create the controls for the spine in the head, and the same process is 00:05.790 --> 00:10.060 going to be followed through with the clavicles here as well as the fingers. 00:10.080 --> 00:11.940 So let's take a look at what we're going to do. 00:12.360 --> 00:15.750 We basically need to constrain the joints to a con. 00:16.020 --> 00:20.460 So let's create a con by grabbing a circle and then just vertex snapping it to the joint. 00:20.880 --> 00:22.440 Let me turn off the polygon. 00:22.450 --> 00:29.910 So when I vertex snap, it will choose the joint to vertex snap to instead of the cone or rotate this 00:29.910 --> 00:32.400 and 90 degrees so that we can see it from the side. 00:32.820 --> 00:34.920 And then I'm going to rename this. 00:37.860 --> 00:48.060 Spine one can't duplicate it twice and just change these names. 00:52.530 --> 00:52.940 What's. 00:58.220 --> 01:02.240 And then I'm going to vertex snap these to the spine joints above it. 01:05.590 --> 01:13.090 So if we were to constrain the cons as they are now, constrain the joints to the cons, each individual 01:13.090 --> 01:21.670 joint would rotate, but it wouldn't have this overall effect of rotating together because their children 01:21.670 --> 01:23.080 and parent relationship here. 01:23.290 --> 01:25.870 So we need to reflect that and the cons themselves. 01:26.140 --> 01:33.640 So we need to parent each one to the one below it so that similarly, when we rotate the cons, they're 01:33.640 --> 01:35.710 all going to rotate together. 01:36.210 --> 01:41.070 OK, so now that we have them in place, let's actually go to component mode up here. 01:41.080 --> 01:46.120 Let's click this little button and let's select all of the control vertices here and we'll just slide 01:46.120 --> 01:46.600 them back. 01:48.360 --> 01:53.760 And then let's scale them down, and if scaling down does work for you, just make sure you're in component 01:53.760 --> 01:54.360 mode here. 01:56.090 --> 02:01.910 Let's hold down our and go to component mode, and that way you can scale each one down individually. 02:02.300 --> 02:05.510 And so now let's go back to object mode by clicking the button up here. 02:06.650 --> 02:14.150 And now we can just constrain each one to each joint, to the console, select each icon and constrain 02:14.150 --> 02:15.380 it to the icon. 02:15.920 --> 02:19.830 Before I constrain them, I want to make sure I'm freezing the transformations as well. 02:19.830 --> 02:25.360 Let's freeze transforms and each one should be fine above that. 02:26.240 --> 02:29.390 So now I can select the con and then constrain. 02:40.760 --> 02:47.360 So now we select the spine cons, I can rotate the entire spine if we have all of these selected, I 02:47.360 --> 02:50.630 can also isolate it each spine joint. 02:50.630 --> 02:55.040 But typically when I'm animating, which we'll get into in another lesson and part of this course, 02:55.490 --> 02:58.860 selecting all the joints together are all the cons, rather, together. 02:59.300 --> 03:00.710 So now we have the spine done. 03:00.710 --> 03:02.750 Let's put that into the second group. 03:04.220 --> 03:08.950 And the other thing we want to make sure is that the spine relationship maintains. 03:08.960 --> 03:15.600 You can see when we dropped it in there because we had them all selected it actually on parented them. 03:15.600 --> 03:18.940 So we just want to select the top one and middle mouse drag that in. 03:18.960 --> 03:20.330 And now that's probably in there. 03:20.760 --> 03:25.070 So the other thing we want to make sure is, you know, test the entire leg out. 03:25.160 --> 03:27.240 You can see that the joints no longer follow. 03:27.680 --> 03:34.220 So we need to make sure that this spine con group is constrained to the cogs. 03:34.220 --> 03:36.100 So they all follow the cog. 03:36.110 --> 03:41.570 As you know, the joints should be doing our work before we are creating these cons. 03:41.930 --> 03:49.940 So let's group these Comanche and I'll just call this spine con group. 03:51.530 --> 03:56.630 And I'm just like the cog and command click the spinal chord group and the outliner and parent constrain 03:56.630 --> 03:56.870 that. 03:57.200 --> 04:02.240 Now you can see that they do indeed follow and everything works as we would expect it. 04:02.600 --> 04:03.650 Thanks for watching this lesson. 04:03.650 --> 04:08.450 And the next one, we're going to do the same thing for the shoulders and the fingers, and then we're 04:08.450 --> 04:12.530 going to move on to discussing how to create different spaces for the hands. 04:12.560 --> 04:13.220 Thanks for watching.