Move Weights Demo from Rigging Dojo

     Brad Clark from rigging dojo demos a little known tool from the Maya Paint Wts toolset  "Move Wts".. 

 Normally for something like this I lock the wts on every single bound joint ( with a quick toggle script) and then unlock the wts where I want the wt to go, and then paint to add. 
  FYI while in the paint wts tool, you can rt click in in the marking menu, lock / unlock the joint's weights. 

Rigging Dojo 101 #Rigtip Move Weights tool from Rigging Dojo on Vimeo.


also check out Brad's tips for displaying joints in Maya. 

 I use the same technique and wrote some quick macros for the shelf for toggling, and turning all to "visible" or "invisible"  , it's rare I use "box". 
( based on selection) 

mel:
global proc jointDrawStyle(int $style)
{
string $sel[] = `ls -type "joint" -sl`;
for ($jnt in $sel)
   {
    setAttr ($jnt + ".drawStyle") $style;
   }
}


//"default joint" 
jointDrawStyle 0; 
// "box"
jointDrawStyle 1; 

//"none"

jointDrawStyle 2; 

Rigging Dojo face joint display #rigtip from Rigging Dojo on Vimeo.