Animating a bow and string in Maya

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Hi everyone,

I have been struggling for a while on figuring out how to properly animate the drawing of a bow where as the string is pulled the bow bends along with it. I seen a tutorial in blender but I am not sure how to do it in maya. This is just a basic wood bow.

The way I understand it being done is with ik handles from center of bow to each limb and a separate joint and ik handle for the string so when the joint on the string is pulled the limbs bend along with it.

Any help, ideas, or directions to go will be greatly appreciated. I will try to get some screen shots of where I come into problems to help everyone understand.

Thanks!

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