A little postprocessing and tinkering with global lighting. Time to stop messing around with sliders and get into the nitty gritty of making the models for the strings and fingers
http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2013/en_us/index.html?url=files/Asts_Create_texture_maps_with_the_Transfer_Map_tool.htm,topicNumber=d30e534787 scroll down to the custom envelope section.