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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

When he hit play, Pip didn't just move; he lived. The wooden puppet waved back at his creator from across the digital void. In that moment, the complex menus and hundreds of tools vanished. There was only Leo, his puppet, and the infinite possibilities of a blank 3D scene. He slid the timeline to frame 24 and