Update of SkinnedMesh after animation.Play

Hi,

I have a question about starting an animation on skinned meshes:

After starting an animation on a skinned mesh (no cross fading, no blending) I pause the program by a Debug.LogError()-print. Now the bones are all in the right place, so are the meshes (not skinned) that are in the bones hierarchy. Though the skinned mesh is not as yet.

Am I right that the skin is being updated in the second LateUpdate()-call after the animation request?

Is it possible to trigger the skin to be updated right away? I need this because I need my camera to be syncrhonous with the mesh (change position, look at mesh). Now if i would have to use flags and shift all calls that depend on the updated skin to their LateUpdate()-method the code would not be well readable anymore, so i very much hope that there is a trick...

Happy for any advice.
Thanks.