Right guys, I don't want to sound like I'm winging, but I found it really difficult to animate with this rig. The controls are fine and the weights are good, but there are some issues that i personally had. One thing I don't think there is enough blendshapes for this shot. I mean, we can still cheat it though. The other thing is i cannot really control the fingers, also i cannot key the wrist rotations, which means I can't get any follow through. The eyeballs also poke through the mesh when you make the character blink. This is my progress so far, the animation is pretty poor, as my computer was lagging so I could not really see what I was animating. So the animation is not great guys. To top it off, his left hand decided to have a right little spack out for no reason, I did not key it, I DIDN'T EVEN MOVE IT! Please ignore his spacktacular hand and try and concentrate on the animation.
Lol. Well I can't help you with the spacktacular hand, however I think I can help you out with the other problems.
ReplyDeleteFor one making those joints smaller may help Display>Animation>Joint Size.
To control the fingers, make sure you have the `DO NOT TOUCH` Layer selected and you should get another circle control outside of the initial wrist control. If you select this control then in the channel menu on the right next to the XYZ tranformations usually are you should have Thumb, Finger1, Finger2 etc... if you highlight the relevent control and then middle mouse click anywhere and drag left to right and you should be able to curl the fingers and then just right click and key selected on the finger control you need. Alternatively if you need to key all the fingers where they are you can select this outer wrist control and just hit S.
As for keying the wrist then you should just be able to rotate the control as you can with the shoulder and elbow. It worked for me but if it isn't for you then I can only assume it's just a crazy ass anomoly to do with maya.
I don't know if you knew all this about the rig already, so sorry if I'm prattling for no reason. If you didn't then I hope it helps you out bro.
Good luck!