Chapter 11: Character Animation: The Fun Part to be adjusted so that it looks like the character is actually holding on. This brings up one of the necessary deficien- cies of our rig. If we had really wanted to be accurate, we would have put IK controllers at the ends of the fingers too, as they are technically bearing some of the weight of the hand when they press against the chair back. Such a construc- tion would have locked the hand per- fectly in place. Why did I call this a "necessary" deficiency? Well, it would just be too complicated to execute, espe- cially in a supposed beginner's book. And if the only problem that not having it causes is that we have to add a few keys to fix hand orientation, I'd say it's a worthy omission. Figure 11.38 What happens when you constrain the cube directly to the hand. The pain!