Hey everyone! Long time no see!
Sorry about that, I've been really busy lately with personal stuff. To be more specific, about two months ago I started dating a really, really nice girl! And I must say, that does change the perspective of everything! It's a very renewing and profound experience to get to know someone so close - I recommend it to everyone; yes, it's my first girlfriend. And I'm loving it! I mean, her!

;-)

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Anyhow, let's get back to business.
I've been studying the Sticky Lips effect for about 2 weeks now, after seeing Matt Schiller's Reel. I've seen this a while back but didn't get motivated enough to try to replicate it. Until now. Because I've been studying Topological Navigation of meshes, to achieve mirroring and other crazy stuff without needing the mesh to be world-space symmetrical - that means the script navigates through the actual vertices and edges, it doesn't check if a point exists in +X and in -X with a margin nor needs the mesh to be on the origin of the scene.
You can check a really nice tutorial on the sticky lips rig by Volker Helzle here.

Motivated with the current studies AND a competition from TD College to get a full free course by showing my most advanced technical piece of work, I made this script in about 4 days. And here's the result:

StickyIt script demo - Automatic Sticky Lips solution for Maya from Riggerman on Vimeo.

Thanks to Luiz Elias for providing these awesome models for the recording!

The script is still not complete! I'm adding an automatic sticky attribute so you don't need to animate it everytime. There's also some weight fixing to do when you add more and more dropoffs. Enjoy!