He slid the timeline to frame 24 and moved the hand across the screen.
Then came the "black magic" of 2014: rigging. Leo used the Joint Tool to draw a digital skeleton inside Pip’s mesh. He struggled with , the process of binding the "skin" to the bones. At first, Pip’s head collapsed into his chest whenever he bowed—a common nightmare for novice animators . The First Breath autodesk-maya-2014
As Pip took shape, Leo entered the world of nodes and attributes . Every move he made was tracked in the . He spent hours in the Outliner , organizing the hierarchy so that when Pip’s arm moved, his hand followed. He slid the timeline to frame 24 and