linguist & software engineer in Lenapehoking; jewish ancom trans woman.
since twitter's burning gonna try bringing my posts about language stuff and losing my shit over star wars and such here - hi!
How does that even happen? Legitimate question as someone who doesnt know much about rigging
I'd guess the fingers were supposed to have a driver bone to make them easy to close all at once, which is very common for hand rigs, and somehow the eye bone was added as a driver, probably accidentally clicked from a list.
I missed this at the time but the actual horrific explanation is that we're using blendshapes for our face rigs and when I was making the blendshapes for this char the masking that prevents the rest of the body from being absorbed into the blendshape broke because maya loves breaking randomly and so some out of place fingers that I'd been testing got accidentally baked into the blink blendshape pose