So, does anyone know a good tutorial on weight painting in Blender? I've been following the cgdive tutorials on rigging, which in general I found very useful, but when it comes to weight painting, his setup just does not work for me. Automatic weights plus auto-normalizing are just a total mess for any areas where a bunch of bones come together. I'm starting to think maybe it's better to start with zero weights everywhere and lock all the vertex groups except two or three at a time.

Honestly, at this point I'd almost prefer to get back to weight painting in Poser, if it weren't for the wonky navigation.

-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.