Nice one.

haha, no probs.

I think painting weights is possible the most confusing/frustrating things in maya.

If you wanted you can set keys so that hes in his start pose for frame 1 and then say at...

Yep, unfortuantly!

You will get used to it and find shortcuts and your own workflow, its a bit of a shame that you've got 8.5 as the smooth weights option makes it a lot easier.

Well have fun!...

Unfortunatly the smooth weights option came along in 2008 (which superseeded 8.5)

Sorry.

The only thing that you could do is the old fashioned painting weights round that area, adding weight...

Hi There Jo

Ive just had a check to make sure that its not somewhere else, yup its there (maya 2008 i'm on, and the version that it was introduced)

You could check out the help files, but it...

No Prob's

Just hope it works for you!

You could try what I do.

Bind the skeleton with a smooth bind, then start to move one side (sat the left) of the skeleton so you can see the dodgey areas. Select the dodgey verts either using...

Might sound a bot mad, but what version aof maya are you running?

If your on 2008 it might be worth having a look into the smooth skin weights option, theres a bit of a tutorial on it at...

Hi There

It just looks like what maya's done when you added the smooth skin, I cant remember the settings but if you look in the help file I think you can set an "area" to skin.

Also to get rid...