Skinning the Gorilla

Skinning the gorilla has been extremely hard work. Despite a much stronger understanding of the skinning tools after doing the dragon, I have been fighting with the mesh and its edge loops every step of the way. The three loops on most of the joints all seem to be too close together and despite several days of tweaking with the paint weights tools I still cant get the arms and legs to bend without the mesh intersecting itself. Its extremely frustrating. However I dont really have any time left to work much longer with the skinning. Im already behind where I should be. Anywhere, here is the deform test:

 

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