Separate body movement in CC

There are two approaches for legs - make them independent to the body, like you have done, or make them part of the body (no independence).

You have chosen to make the legs independent. In that case, I would recordommend setting the “Attach To” to “Auto” and then drag the origin handle for the leg so it overlaps the body and turns green. In the screen shot it is not green, but the Attach To value is not Auto.

With the legs being independent, you will not be able to use pins etc to lock down the position of the legs to control the body - you will have to pin down the body and then use draggers or similar to control the leg positions. I personally don’t use independence on legs very often just so I can put pins on the feet to control the body location. (The feet then don’t move, but the body sways around.)

Question - do you play to use the walk behavior? The walk behavior locks things down a lot more. It effectively takes over all the draggers in the puppet for you.

Arrrr. He be walking da plank soon enough me hearty!

Could you click on say a leg in the rigging view? That should highlight if the leg is correctly attached to the body. Do you want the legs to be independent to the body? More often than not I keep the legs dependent (no crown). Arms are often independent (so the joint works better) but legs I frequently do not do independent.

My guess is the either the parent layer is not auto, or the leg origin is not over the body (so the origin marker goes green so its attached). That is easier to see if you click on a leg and take a screen shot of that rigging (showing the origin etc). Getting the right property panels can help too - to see the “attach to” value.