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I have a question which may just reveal my animation ignorance, but I'm interested in making a book in VR, that you can open, turn pages in, and close. I realize that's a big ask, I'm just taking it one step at a time.

I want to make the book open naturally when you open the covers, but I imagine that will require some specific deforms, and I knwo then that it will require rigging and assigning weights.

My curiosity is, how should I go about properly weighting the verts so that it looks good? Maybe that's too open-ended of a question, do I just have to practice weight painting and try over and over again to get a painting that I don't hate? Pic unrelated.