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Weight painting the eyelids and ears

Weight painting the eyelids and ears - Blender Tutorial

From the course: Blender: Character Rigging with BlenRig

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Weight painting the eyelids and ears

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- [Narrator] To work on the eyelids, the first thing we should probably do is go ahead and hide the eyes over here in the outliner and that will allow us to get to the inside of the character here and be able to paint the weights from the inside. Now you need to be in perspective. If I hit the 5 key and change to ortho I'm not able to get inside the head there so you have to be in perspective to be able to do that. So let's go ahead and turn on the deformation bones right here and let's switch over to selecting the head and change from object mode to weight paint mode. Now we can choose the eyelids here and begin painting. I've got add with my strength at 1, the weight at 1, and I'll spin around on the inside and paint from in here. Mainly because if I paint from out here, what often happens is I hit the back of the head and I don't want to do that so I'll undo that. I also would like to be able to see through the model to the bones so I'll think I'll scroll down and turn on x-ray…

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