Hand modeling tutorial

“Hand modeling” by Sean Hewitt
The actual settings you use may depend on your scale.  So if it’s too much or too little, just undo, adjust the number and try again.


We’ll select the four faces for each finger now and extrude them out a length.

If the tool looks a little odd to you it’s because I’m using NEX and you probably aren’t.  The green face is the auto highlight.  When using NEX I can easily extrude faces by hold CTRL+ Shift and MMD.  Again just how a little short cut can save me the time of digging through menus.
Next, we’ll do the same thing for the thumb.

Now is as good a time as any.  I’m going to edge loop split the height of the whole model. I use MJ Poly Tools to do this.  Again I have a hot key set up so I simply select and edge and hit a couple buttons on the keyboard.

We will extrude out the thumb a little bit more before the next step.
 
Ok, so while this so far is defiantly a pattern I’d say makes things easier In the long run it’s pretty simple and anybody could pretty much figure this much out.  One part of most modeled hands that I usually see is lacking is the webbing between the index finger and the thumb.  Take a moment to observe your own hand and move your thumb around and notice how the skin there moves.  When it comes to rigging an area like this it’s very difficult.  The skin here almost moves more like cloth since there’s little underneath that area to hold its shape and just the amount it stretches and moves compared to other parts of the body.  The best you can do is find the average of the range of movement and try to sculpt that.
So the first step I’ve found to best model this area is to delete the two faces in the crook of the thumb.  The two that run up the side of the index fingers, right by the knuckles of the palm.

 
         

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