From the course: Blender: Character Rigging with BlenRig

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Weight painting the lips and cheeks

Weight painting the lips and cheeks - Blender Tutorial

From the course: Blender: Character Rigging with BlenRig

Weight painting the lips and cheeks

- [Instructor] For the lips, we should probably open the mouth again so that we can access the inside of the lips as well. So, I'll turn on the facial controls here, and I'll go ahead and grab the maxi bone and just roll that down a bit. And a lot of these controls here are so that we can grab individual points and pull them out just to test. We may not need them all right now, especially the ones for the tongue and the teeth. So maybe we can turn those off. There we go. And even the body. There we go. So that's a little bit cleaner now. I'll stuck the head, and let's go to weight paint mode. And I'll select one of the lips here, and we'll begin just painting these. So what I want is to try and paint the lips for these bones here, along the perimeter of the lips. And then I'll come in and begin painting these vertical bones coming off of the mouth, like this. So let's begin with these. I'll slick that, and let's just begin painting in here. It's gonna add a new vertex group, and we'll…

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