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Weight painting the teeth and tongue

Weight painting the teeth and tongue - Blender Tutorial

From the course: Blender: Character Rigging with BlenRig

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Weight painting the teeth and tongue

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- [Instructor] To weight the teeth and the tongue, we'll be using a slightly different technique than we've been using. Instead of weight painting, we're gonna actually go in and select the vertices of the object, and then assign those vertices to the bone vertex group. So let's take a look at how to do that. First of all, I'm gonna open up the mouth here. I'll just press R and X and open the mouth a bit so we can see inside and work on the tongue. Think I'll try and reduce the clutter here by turning off a couple of these layers. And now what we need to do is make sure our tongue vertex groups are listed over here in our vertex groups for the head. Currently if we scroll through, we won't see anything for the tongue. So to create those, an easy way to do that is to select one of these tongue bones and then just click in weight paint mode and that will create the vertex group. So let's select the head. Go to weight paint mode. Select this tongue_three bone. I'll reduce my brush size a…

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