Today I have rigged one of my characters and painted the skin weights so that my character moves how it should. I have used joints and skin to rig my character as the way the character moves best suits it. I have used 3 joints in the handle and 1 for the head so there is good movement throughout the body.
When painting the weights, It took me a few attempts to get it working as I kept painting on top of the of the other joints which caused it to not work properly. I finally fixed it and got it working as it should.
Daniel Porter 