Rigging a Cartoon Character in Maya Tutorial Day 5

Setting Up the Joints and Controllers (Video Below )
Basically I am setting up both the IK and FK Controllers for the Arm in the Video. The IK works for moving the controller and the FK is Better used when rotating.

Wiring up the FK/IK Rig
Here I am adding an attribute to set up a IK & FK               attribute. 

At the moment in the Picture above I only added a IK Attribute. Next for the FK I will be using the Expression Editor. 
I also made sure I edited some settings in the Expression Editor which are not shown in the video below.



Notes*
LArm_Def_01.rotateY = Left_Arm_IK.FK_IK*LArm_IK_01.rotateY + (1 - Left_Arm_IK.FK_IK)*LArm_FK_01.rotateY       *(Changed)*

Adding in Stretch 

Taking a while to get the right expression.....
*Couldn't get it correct in the expression editor so I will be moving to ( 03_04.ma ) Adding in Stretch with the Professor's permission.


*all I did for adding stretch was use the expression editor.


( 03_05.ma )




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