From the course: Create an Animated Character in Blender 2.9

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Assigning weights for the fingers

Assigning weights for the fingers

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Assigning weights for the fingers

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- [Instructor] Well, as we saw on the last video, we've got a bit of a problem with the right arm and the right hand. If we select one of these finger controls and hit the S key to scale, you can see it just collapses in. And in fact, it's pulling on two fingers there. So we've got some work to do here. Now, once again, we could go in and use the weight painting tool. So I could come in here to weight paint, shift right click and choose index three and we could begin painting on this finger here with our brush tool. What the problem is, is we'd also have to paint with the subtract brush to get it off of everything else. And honestly, that can be very time consuming especially with these small appendages, but the fingers. So let me show you another way that can be a little repetitious but you can move through it pretty quickly. So what, let's do is first of all I'm going to select say this edge right here, I'll hit the…

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