Maya Move Skinned Joints Without Unbinding

John P. Neumann shows a tip on how to move skinned joints in Maya WITHOUT having to unbind an already bound skin to do it… what a marvelous thing!
You can check out John’s site at Animate-Shmanimate and you can always follow him on the Twitters (@ArrantSquid) for sweet gems of info on rigging and python and Pymel.

Maya – Move Skinned Joints Without Unbinding from John P. Neumann on Vimeo.

Moving skinned joints or fixing their orientation is a pain in the ass. But it doesn’t have to be. Here’s 2 and 1/2 minutes that’ll save you from saving your skin weights out, unbinding, moving your joints and then re-binding and loading your weights back in.