Tech Art Simple Rigging

 

Above: the archer, posed with the FK rig

And here is the joint/control hierarchy. This can't be the right way to do this? Having all these offset groups seems like a sin. And duplicating the entire hierarchy is a total waste of time. Surely there is a better way?

Here is what the joint hierarchy looks like with the constraints. 

This character is submitted to Perforce at to //CLASSES/Cohort22/Students/Joseph.Brandenburg/TechArt/josephBrandenburg_hw/Rigging/josephBrandenburg_HW5.mb