Puppet tool position change

Btw, check you DUIK. It takes away a lot of headache when it comes to character rigging.

*Martin

As soon as you parent the leg-layer to the character, the position of the leg-layer changes to the relative positon instead of absolute. This messes up puppet pin which works with absolute positioning. In your screenshot, the pins have an offset to the graphic, which is an indicator for messed up.

In order to get this done correctly, you need to parent the pin to the character and leave the layer unparented. You do this with an expression, which should be:

l = CharacterLayer (use pigwhip and link it there);
l.toWorld(l.anchorPoint);

This links the pin to the anchorpoint of the character. If the anchoir point if not at the joint, you can just add an offset. Or a bit more practical: add a null layer at the joint, parent it to the character and insert it in the expression instead of the character-layer. So you have pin -> null -> character.

When your character walks around, it's more practical to precompose it and do all walking motion in the precomp. The character actually walks on spot. In your main comp then, you move the precomp according to the walking. This way, you prevent moving the pinned layer out of it's bounderies or get unwanted dissortions.

*Martin