How to Make the HEAD Follow the WORLD SPACE on ANY Rigged Character in MAYA

Sometimes when you are trying to animate a character you found online you might wish you had more functionality, such as the ability to make the head follow the world. This is a handy one so you don't need to counteranimate everything you do with the chest. Characters naturally try to keep their head upright. So in this tutorial, I am going to walk you through copying the rigs controls to make your own controls that can switch between following the body or the world space.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:15 Duplicate Controls
2:15 Create Group Nodes
3:40 Modify the Control Curves
4:45 Build the FK Hierarchy
5:27 Contrain Controls
6:35 Attach Controls to Body
7:30 WORLD FOLLOW Constraints
8:33 Create a Custom Attribute
9:52 Set Driven Keys
11:54 Sets Keys to Linear
12:20 Demonstration

The rig featured in this video is Agora Community's "Dirk the Daring" from "Dragon's Lair" you can play with the rig by following this link!: https://agora.community/content/dirk...

I hang out on Gogan's "Animation Help" Discord server if you want to connect, ask questions, get animation or rigging help, etc. Come hang out on the server!   / discord  

How to Make the HEAD Follow the WORLD SPACE on ANY Rigged Character in MAYA
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