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There are two ways to improve the smooth skin deformations:
Add an influence object to eliminate collapsing regions or to create muscle
bulge. For example, you can use an influence object to make the shoulder
region look more natural in the prior pose.
Edit skin weightsto remove minor lumps or indented regions. For
example, you can fill out an undesirable concave region at the chest that
appears when you move the arm to certain poses.
The following procedures explain the techniques.
Skin weighting and deformations
In the next steps, youll learn how joints and skin weights influence
deformations at Jackies chest. In a subsequent section, youll improve uneven
deformations.
To see how skin weights affect a skins deformation
1 Pose the left arm similar to the following figure. The left breast becomes
irregularly shaped.
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