Spline Modeling A Human Hand

Scizz

I don't even know where to begin. For a class, the teacher wants me to create the wire frame of a human hand using only splines.
Kinda like that, or the wire frame model they use for movies before they cover it with plaster. Any tips or advice to get me started? We did an example with a wedding ring box. We essentially made a rectangle converted it to editable spline, outlined it, copied it above the original, attached the 2 and applied a surface modifier. We aren't allowed to use that technique now.

I thought maybe I could trace a hand out, then just manually add the necessary rings, and joints where the knuckles would be. :poly122:

Chase

Holy cow haha. I've never heard of splining out a hand. Could lofting come into play? You can't just use ZBrush can you lol

Scruples

I would start by modeling a very basic hand and maybe smoothing it, then by using an assortment of the techniques shown here http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=9014331 but I imagine the "Create Shape From Selection" button will get the most use.

Scizz

@Chaserm2 Nah, no Zbrush. = (

@Scruples I will diffidently try that out. Thanks for the suggestions guys! More is always welcome!

Ruz

un believably I had to make spline heads for a MMO at a company I used to work for
here is an example fo the topology I used. absolute nightmare.



I will try and post the hand tonight, not sure if i still have the files

tutorial here

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGfiU0RDc2I"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGfiU0RDc2I[/ame]

Neox

why?

but anyways, does it have to be a functional cage or something like the boot you just showed?
if it needs to be funktional and you can cheat, i would say model it with polies, subdivide and extract shapes from the edgeloops

pior

The shoe exemple is awesome - I think that's actually a fantastic exercise to give to students.

So yeah, you can do a lot of complex spline building simply using polygons first then converting the edges you want to splines as mentioned above.

However, if the spline network is supposed to be surface-modifier friendly to actually create shaded hand from there .... then I guess this teacher is just trolling hehe

I love the idea of forcing student to learn shape flow with splines tho.

Bishop313

I would do it the same way like neox discribed it.

Scizz

@Neox Yeah, it doesn't have to be functional. But I know I have to start out using only splines.

@pior You know, I completely forgot about the trouble the surface modifier will bring I can't

think of any other way to model a hand without tracing and extruding up.

Scizz

Yeah, I can't figure it out lol. I created the base outline and I tried extruding up but I can't apply surface modifier. I tried creating essentially a cage and i still can't do it, = ( I'm stumped this is difficult, wish i could just make it outta polys

Edit: So basically, he traced out a finger, than made a copy and rotated it 90 degrees, and added the the line segments in between to make essentially a cylinder. with a rounder tip. I guess that works but I wouldnt agree that it is the most efficient way of making a hand. Thanks for the sugggestions.

Neox

Well ask your teacher if it has to be functional or not. The show for instance is a great thing to learn, but it'll never work with the surface modifer, making it non funktional. So basically if you want to do it non functional don't give a damn about surface creation and create a hand, place the fingernails and everything like the details on the boot. I also think its a great way to learn about shapes, but having to do a fully functional splinecage is just pointless these days.

Scizz

@Neox Yeah, it didn't need to function, just had to be a hand

Neox

then forget about extrude and all, just draw the lines

nufftalon

That shoe example is awesome I need to do some small projects to get better I might have a go at it. Not sure if I would spline model the whole thing.