Creating controls in Maya

To day was about developing controls for our created characters in Maya. We learnt how to colour coordinate features to help identify specific movements for the characters features, I managed well with creating the controls and have managed to successfully. It went well in areas because the tutorial for the controls simple to understand but the process was long, it was explained clearly but I took a very long time to develop the controls due to my slow understanding but I created all controls and finished the model at its current stage. Although the methods of creating the controls and binding  was simple, did struggle to connect the skeleton to the controls correctly and had a few problems with grouping. I will need to watch the tutorials to get this right before designing character because this is very important asset to a character in my because it effects the characters body and its order of connects.    

Improvements for the future would be just to practice creating a character from scratch especially, creating controls because this is a lot to process so I will recap over these tutorials to help build a better and quicker understanding, I feel that I understood the method of creating controls, just did not grasp  grouping them, quick enough so I feel all this knowledge gained needs practicing, I will use the videos for future reference to ensure I don't make the same mistakes on my own character in the future.