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Hand modeling tutorial

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“Hand modeling” by Sean Hewitt
The pattern wrapping around the thumb is a little tricky.  What the loops end up doing are they come across the palm of the hand, around the top side of the hand, back around the thumb and then the edges travel up and over the fingers.  Here I’m starting to cut edges around the thumb to move up the fingers.  Rather than the edges traveling down the palm to the wrist, they’ll travel down and around the thumb.  At least till about the middle finger they will any way.

Here’s a selection starting to show how the edges will wrap around this hand.


Since the edges don’t need to travel down the fingers and across the palms, I’m going to delete the old edges to they now travel down around the thumb.

This may be a little difficult to follow at this point because I’m working all the way around the hand.  What I’m doing here is simply cutting edge loops around the hand as I described before.  Some times I may redirect edges that are already there for spacing sake.


Here I’ve decided to take one of the loops around across the webbing of the thumb.  Remember, this isn’t an exact science.  This is a general pattern I follow.  But every time I model a hand I’m still trying to figure out where to place these new edges I’m cutting.
 

 
         

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7 comments

  1. ruchika / March 13, 2012

    hello..i want learn imp hand maya..pls re

  2. Dominic / November 22, 2011

    amazing modeling steps gr8 help . . . !

  3. Guillermo / November 21, 2010

    I appreciate your tutorial, while you omitted some critical details I still was able to figure out most of ’em, I guess we are just lazy to think on our own. So dude thanks again and keep ’em coming.

  4. ssb otaru / November 20, 2010

    i missed out at the last stage, i know i will cope if i give it a 2nd shot… that is a good job sean hewitt. though i have done some hands before but not as realistic as this!

  5. ryan / November 2, 2010

    Agreed. This is a poor tutorial, You miss out all of things making it impossible to carry on to next steps, I got to page four and have no idea wtf to do.

  6. Angel / October 28, 2010

    I agree with Darren, when I’ve tried to followed those steps I can’t figure out on what to do.

  7. darren wong / August 28, 2010

    seriously, you left out a ton of steps, and your written descriptions of what you are doing are like those “how to draw” books that go like, “step one- make a circle….step two- now you are done…” and the picture they are asking you to make is all shaded and rendered out…..needs way more pics of what you are doing here…almost missed the step where you moved the verts of that original bevel/merged em with that one edge loop….Also better angles + different ortho views of what you are doing might help….other than that, thanks for the tutorial!

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