How should fingers be rigged? FK or IK? or both?

[Baothebuff]

Yeah FK is good for 99% of the time. The only reason you might want to use IK is if the hand has got to pivot with the fingertips in place. And if you use IK you have to deal with pole vectors and such.

[pooby]

It really depends on the shot.

Unless there is a reason to, as stated above, animating generally in Ik is going to cause unnecessary grief. Fk makes far more sense for gesturing. Unless there is a close up of fingers manipulating an item, or applying pressure to something such as a table, theres no call for IK.

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