yes the normals appear to be slightly bent should I manually rotate them or something to your second point the low poly isn't finished yet I'm just trying to sort the baking issues low poly without bevel
it looks as if your hip rotation (what little there is) is translating up the spine into the shoulders and making him "wobble". If you were to compensate the hip rotation with some shoulder rotation rotation it would look better. Right now he looks off balance when he's swinging like that. ex: from:…
Yeah, the dummy is just inheriting rotation from a higher level of the hierarchy, so technically it is not rotating when you work with the foot. It is just inheriting position/rotation information, but this is not passed down to the roll bone. Hmmm... Hang on, I'll experiment a bit.