Building A Complete Human Character Rig In Maya, Hand Controls – Tuts+ Premium

Today we’re bringing you the fifth part in the Complete Human Character Rig series where you’ll learn how to construct a complex, fully realized character rig using Maya’s built in tool set. In today’s post we’ll tackle one of the most complicated parts, the dreaded hand controls.

In this part of the tutorial, you will learn how to build the character’s IK/FK Hand Controls for animation. This is a very essential part in Character Rigging and hence quite long also. So let’s start creating Controls for the character’s hands.

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