Rig problems for Plasticine style model

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Hi all … this is my first post so be gentle.

I’m fairly new to blender using v2.72 and i’ve come into a problem with my first real project.

meet Mungo


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He is a model I am wanting to animate or at least pose … i’ve followed a few tutorials about rigging and I always end up with the model not deforming correctly ie… the arms distorting the body heavily.

also i’ve had a problem with the mesh deforming in the 3d viewer when I use automatic weights (maybe its due to the heavy build of the model) before I even touch anything…

so…

What am i doing wrong?

or

do you awesome guys and girls know of any tutorials for models like Mungo?

Regards

James

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I always end up with the model not deforming correctly ie… the arms distorting the body heavily.

also i’ve had a problem with the mesh deforming in the 3d viewer when I use automatic weight

Select the mesh, change to weight painting mode, select the bone and correct the weighting

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I’ve done this infact spent a whole evening on it … and it still distorts and the auto weight is massively wrong which is why I wondered if it was the rig? bones size/type/placement or something.