Weight Painting

Weight Painting

When looking into animations and rigging I also had to cover painting of weights, which is simple in theory but long and more difficult than it makes out to be. Essentially painting weights is when you manipulate the weight of certain geometry so that it beds more easily or is more resilient, for example if I was to animate a knee bend and the weights were to low, the knee would bend and collapse with the back of the knee as well but if the weights were increased and painted on the back of the knee they wouldn’t bend and collapse as easy giving you more natural look to your animation without the weird deformations.

This is a good skill to have when rigging and creating your own animations it didn’t really play much of a role in my animations so I did not delve too deep in to its mechanics but it’s something I will defiantly look at I the future

Here is the video I used to help me develop my understanding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzI5PC2iB2s