hip pulls when dragging the arm

Oh, you can click on the layer with the hip in it as well to check that mesh out to make sure its good. (I would click through all the meshes to make sure they are all nice contours like the arm is now), checking for handles that are outside the mesh.

But from your description it sounded like you are already resolved the problem? I was just giving a tip that can help track down a similar problem next time. If its working, then you are done! But I like to check the meshes just to be sure.

I was curious about if the arm gets close to the hip it does tug a bit. That is curious. Meshes is how I would investigate.

That mesh is the sort of mesh you are after - it is hugging the outline of the arm correctly. Don’t worry about the blue bounding box - it is just a different way of looking at it that is not so noisy.

If you go into the scene window, you can turn the mesh on there as well then start moving the character around like in a recording (or play back a recording). Sometimes this reveals a point off somewhere else stretching that you did not expect to move (e.g. near the hip in your case). That in turn might show a handle that Is moving that you did not expect. E.g. If you are still having a problem, you might have moved the artwork to the correct layer in the puppet but left a handle on the wrong layer.

I think I figured it out. It had to do with the organization of the layers in Photoshop.