Head moving with camera

[gregs27420180]

In my project, the head is moving with the camera across the screen, while still connected to the body, making a very long neck.

There is a head turner behaviour which works, but I would like the head to just turn on it's axis, not to the side of the screen.

If I add a Fixed Pin, it just distorts the head and stretches from that individual point. Is there a way to make the head fixed, without pinning ?

Here is a Youtube link to what I am talking about:

Character Animator Head Distortion - YouTube

[angie_taylor]

Is your head a warp independent object? In the Puppet panel, does the Head group have a Crown next to it? If so , try turning this off.

[gregs27420180]

No, none of the head layers have a crown in Character Animator or a + Next to them in Illustrator, apart from eyeballs and eyebrows in sub-layers.

[angie_taylor]

OK, try adding the Crown to the Head Group and see what result you get now? Please let me know

[oksamurai · Accepted solution]

It seems to me like something is pinning down the Body group - a fixed handle somewhere maybe? The way it bends and "sticks" in the top part of the chest and detaches from the arms seems to suggest this...

Worst case scenario, File > Export > Puppet and share it as a link (Creative Cloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.) so we could take a closer look.

[gregs27420180]

Thanks for that you two. The answer seems to have been that I had some fixed pins in the Body group as well as head. I removed all fixed pins and seems to be working fine now. I added the crown to the head group and it floats off in space. When I added it to the Sub Head groups though, worked normally. Anyway, case closed...thanks for your help