So, sort of got my rigging working for the hand. I have found some problems with it though. the fingers seem to get very thin and square when curled. Not sure how to fix this at the moment.
I have also set up some nurb sphere controllers for the curling action and one that curls them all at once.Screenshot of my first tester for the glowworm code.
The brown background is just a rough picture. I hope to make it a nice cavern looking image to create the same feel as my concept picture.
I decided to remodel my hand to a less square, blocky type to a more natural glove feel.
Here's the results