Marco Giordano shares and shows off his Chain Blender script for Maya which will allow you to blend the deformation o two bone chains onto a third. Check out the demo and also get the Chain Blender script for Maya available here.

Chain blender V1.00 python script demo from Marco Giordano on Vimeo.

Maya blend chain tutorial from Marco Giordano on Vimeo.

This is a little demo of my little script called Chain blender . This script allow you to blend the deformation of two chains of bones into a third one . this is the same technique used in Animator Friendly Rig dvd series .
download : giordanoanimator.com/?download.htmlavailable on creativecrash website too feel free to write me an email for any C&C at : marco(dot)giordano(dot)work(at)gmail(dot)com