Locking down the rig

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So the rig is now scalable. So it's time to start thinking about locking it down.

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We already have some attributes which will do this to a certain degree.

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We can hide the rig systems and the skeleton.

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So the animator can't see or select them.

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We can also lock the geometry again. So the animator is unable to select it.

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The problems come when we select everything else in the scene,

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which is what an animator could do to quickly add a key on every control.

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As you can see here,

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we also selected the end position locators for the stretchiness,

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which has all its attributes available to edit.

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As you can imagine if an animator accidentally animated these locators,

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it would break the stretch systems.

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So this needs addressing.

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Let's look in the outliner.

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We also have these groups which could easily be selected and animated again,

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breaking the rig

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and these locators here.

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What I've known many animators do in the past is simply select the root control

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and then select its hierarchy

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to then set a key on the whole character.

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But as you can see, we have groups and IK handles and all sorts in here,

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which would then have key frames on them.

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So in short,

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we now need to go through and lock everything the animators shouldn't be

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able to touch or be able to add a key frame onto.