Freezing a hand to a position while animating the rest of a humanoid?

[KimAtLearnPro]

My model has been rigged and is using a control rig.

The character has to do small movements while holding on to a door handle. However I am having the problem of when I move the character to a new position, say side stepping, I then have to re position the hand/ arm to get as close to where it was originally as possible. At the moment the hand is moving about around the handle.

Is there away I can freeze the hand, so it doesnt move however you move the rest of the body?

Any help would be much appreciated

[pshwayka]

You could probably use a point constraint to make the hand stay on the door handle...I'm assuming you have an IK chain for the arm with the IK handle at the hand.

[lee.dunham · Accepted solution]

a parentConstraint would be more suitable - depending on rig setup. You could also look at tools like zvParentMaster for spaceswitching.

[pshwayka]

Duly noted, Lee.  For some reason, the way the scene was described, I didn't picture the character actually opening the door...more like just hanging onto the door handle as a static object, as if it was locked.

[santd]

Thank you Lee and pshwayka,

Both great suggestions and should work for what is described in the scene.

Cheers,

[KimAtLearnPro]

Thank you.

I tried out zvParentMaster and works great. When the hand is parent to the handle, it is still hard for the movement to look completely natural as the wrist moves around alot. But for the project I am working this is fine as the character will be doing this movement in a room filled full of smoke therefore they will be hard to see/ doesn't have to be perfect.