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Painting weights for the elbows and knees

Painting weights for the elbows and knees

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Painting weights for the elbows and knees

- [Instructor] Let's take a look at how the arm bends here if we grab this control, this hand control here and I'm going to go to the top view with seven and five, and I'm going to zoom in here. Now, let's take a look at this, we've got a pretty good gradient going from a lot of influence here, with all the red and the orange and kind of gradually tapering off into the blue or the green and the blue. And that looks pretty good, but let's give it a test and see if we like it. So, I'ma just going to grab the hand control, hit G, and bend it here. And what I can see, that I'm not real fond of, is the way this is cutting into that elbow piece. I'd like the elbow piece to kind of bend or fold in along with this, rather than the arm pieces cutting into it. So, let me press Alt + G, and then what let's do, is let's think about what we can do to keep this from cutting in. I'm going to go to the front view, I'll hit the…

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