Rigging a Bird With Advanced Skeleton PART 04 [Weight Painting]

This is PART 04 of How to rig a bird in Maya for animation with Advanced Skeleton

In this free series I have been teaching how to rig a bird. In the previous lessons we set up the joints and built the main rig for the body and wings.

In this lesson we will cover all the skinning and weight painting. I will show you how to only have certain joints affect single pieces of geometry, weight painting techniques and go over what a Delta Mush is.

This will work with any bird model, you can use your own or purchase various 3d bird assets on stock market places

I will NOT be covering how to create feather systems, this is a whole deeper skillset, but you can build a beautiful animator friendly bird right here! and 🔥now all in 4K!

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0:00 - Intro
00:28 - Selecting the body joints
09:49 - Skinning proxy wing feather
14:00 - Scene clean up
17:27 - What is Dela Mush?
22:15 - Hip Leg weight painting
33:12 - Pelvis / Tail weight painting
22:15 - Hip Leg weight painting
44:12 - Neck / Head weight painting
52:35 - Beak weight painting
59:10 - Wing arms weight painting
22:15 - Hip Leg weight painting
01:07:32 - Toes / Claws weight painting
01:23:32 - Conclusion

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