Offset Parent Matrix Basics

With Maya 2020, Autodesk gave us a whole suite of new rigging attributes and nodes to help make our rigs more economical, and powerful.

One of these is the offsetParentMatrix attribute which in short, offers another level on top of the main transforms meaning we can finally remove the need for all the offset groups that bloat our rigs.

There is obviously so much more to them, but in this video we will go over the basics of how to use them with a joint chain.

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