Does anyone know how to create a rig with multiple head angles?

Hi mate,

Depending on your design and how you want to animate those head angles, you have a few options:

1. Create separate head symbol containers with the same registration at the base of the head where neck comes in. The internal timelines of these run always in sync with the character timeline and you swap them at keyframes.

2. Same as above, but wrap the head angle symbols in a graphic symbol, where one head angle occupies one frame. When blocking out your animation you can quickly switch angles without the need to swap. When you're done blocking out, you release the outer wrapper by breaking apart and you can animate facial features in sync one level deep as in 1.

3. Finally if you need smooth transitions between head angles, you have to have the elements on the same timeline and tween them or redraw them.

Often a combination of 3. and 1./2. is used for the transitions.

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I would suggest just adding another frame, and in the 2nd frame you place the 2nd head angle, movement, or expression, and in the 3rd keyframe you place the third. Or you can just frmaes 1, 10 and 20 to give yourself room on the timeline.

Then when animating assuming your symbol is a Graphic Symbol, you can select it on the stage or its keyframe and then in the properties panel under "Object" you can change the Graphic symbol to static frame so you can easily change it from one head to another by adding a new keyframe on the timeline, and then changing the frame number to 1, 10, 20, or however you set it up.

Hope that makes sense.

Cheers,

mark