Toolkit 2: Jetpack Jones - Lateral Mouth Movement Part 1

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 Started by duplicating the head again, this time in order to fix corner of mouth movement.



Once I set up the joints for the head, I then began weighting the joints.



I then painted the weights to help with the character smiling movements.





















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