Visually messed up puppet in a scene rendering

I just noticed another issue you might hit. You put "dangle" on the bits of hair at the side of the head, but there are no sticks there and the hair strands are not independent. This will cause the hair AND head it is attached to to distort. Normally you put some sticks down the side of the head to try and limit the distortion, or better move the left and right strands of hair into two separate layers overlapping the head. Call them +Left Hair and +Right Hair or something like that. Then attach those groups with "Weld" attach type (suggested) to the head and put the dangle on the Left/Right Hair layers. That way the dangling hair will not distort the rest of the head.

An important (and confusing) concept in CH is the separation of "mesh" from "layer". Layers are important, but meshes are too. The "+" for independence starts a new mesh. Children mesh are attached to parent meshes and follow them, but distortions on the child mesh never affect the parent. So it makes them (somewhat) independent to their parent.

You cannot go crazy and use independence everywhere - it will break the puppet. But the occasional use in key spots where things like "eye blinks and pupil movements should not affect the rest of the face" is where you want them. E.g. do you want head movements to move the body? Often yes, sometimes no. If no, then make the head independent and the body won't move from the Face behavior.

I normally ask for a screenshot of the rigging as a first step. Not sure why I did not this time. Most of the problems are pretty easy. In particular, you need to use independence on a number of your layers.

Rename "Left Eyebrow" to "+Left Eyebrow". The leading "+" will put the independence tag on for you automatically. (You can do it by hand as well - click the little crown icon next to the eye icon, but using "+" avoids having to redo it if you import the puppet again later). Repeat for Right Eyebrow, Mouth, Sad Mouth, Left Eye, Right Eye, Left Pupil, and Right Pupil. This will fix most of your problems. (See https://extra-ordinary.tv/2018/04/21/debugging-character-animator-eyess/ for background reading.)

Also in the Mouth layer, you should only have children layers with the same names as the viseme tags if you want auto-tagging to work. You had some other names there, and no "Neutral", "Surprised", or "Smile" layers. You can tag them manually, but auto-tagging is your friend! The names to use are over in the tag area in properties.

Also, for Cycle Layers for visemes, make sure you click "hold on last layer". W-oo did not have it turned on so the mouth disappeared after the cycles played.

With indepdence turned on most of the problems went away. Not sure why it was so extreme to be honest, but it fixed the problems!! 

If you put them in a scene by themselves, i assume the same happens? It is usually due to a rigging error.

Do they look like that when you drop them into a scene for the first time? What changes do you make that make them go funny? If webcam is off, do they look better? Understanding what action causes the distortion can help a lot track down the problem. Start with one puppet, get it going , then look at the next.