I cant pin the legs to my character's body- is it because it doesn't have a head?

Question

My character is an inanimate object (it's a bottle), so he does not have a head, his face is on his body. Is this possibly why I can't pin the limbs to the body? If not, what am I doing wrong? How do I set the layers up properly for a situation like this?

Dan Ramirez · Accepted Answer

Here's a YouTube video I made going over making a character like this from scratch. Please disregard my awful drawing capability 🙂

Here's the .puppet file from when I was done with the video: https://adobe.ly/3b13oUG
Here's the video: https://youtu.be/wT9gyoULhWM

Dan Ramirez · Answer

Your "Head" layer is independent, which means it will move with the Face behavior alone. If you want the arms and legs to be parented to the bottle, uncrown the head, uncrown the legs, pin the feet using fixed pins, crown the arms, and move the origin handle(green circle) to where the arms overlap the body.

If that doesn't help, I can make a video. We should probably have a template character with this structure since it's a pretty standard structure. Red Monster is similar, but doesn't have arms.

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