Skinning the character

- With all of our joints in place,…now we can skin the character.…Now skinning basically involves…attaching the character's mesh to the joints.…So let's go ahead and start by turning off…the ControlsLayer here so that all we see…is the character's mesh and the joints.…So let's just go ahead and do a skin smooth bind.…So first thing that we need to do is select the joints.…So if I select this hip joint,…it selects the entire upper body,…but remember we attached the legs using constraints…so I have to select those separately.…

So now that I have all of the joints selected,…I can select my mesh and go bind skin.…Now I'm going to show you some of the options for this.…We'll leave that at joints, closest distance,…that's a good idea, and then what type of skinning method.…I'm just going to go with classic.…Now the other thing you really want to pay attention to…is maximum influences.…By default this is usually set at five,…but I'm going to bring it down to about three,…because typically, you don't ever want more than…