30 Space Switches
Introduction
What if the animator wants to do something like place a hand on the hip and attach them to move together? Parenting the hand to the hip requires changes to the rig and does not make sense for other animations. So we need to change the behavior without changing parenting.
Space switch rigs provide the animator with a custom parameter which seemingly changes which bone a control is parented to. The actual parenting does not change, only the control’s behavior.
I recommend adding this setup to all IK controls and their pole controls, as well as the root and the eye target controls. It will also be required for prop controls so that they can be attached to hands or other parts of the ...
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