Hand Study

JohnnyTheKid

Learned a lot on this one and put in everything I recently learned about hands. Realtime rendering in Toolbag 3
I'am curious to know what you think!



3D Hand anatomy study from Malte Sturm on Vimeo.

erroldynamic

Nice! Hands can be tough. Solid work and nice renders.

JohnnyTheKid

yes, really tough! thank you

ohne

That looks really good. I've been working on hands fairly often as well recently, but yours look way better! Very inspiring, and I think you "nailed" the nails as well, which I found hard to get right at first. Nice texturing too.

Elithenia

This is really looking good! Well done!

JohnnyTheKid

@ohne
thank you! just keep practicing That hand took me longer than I would ever admit haha
It was more or less the first hand I sculpted (did an anatomy course though) so it looked pretty bad in the beginning. It went like that for me:
Sculpt hand --> realize how bad it looks -->learn more anatomy of hands, do drawing of hands look at my own hands, other hands --> get back to sculpt and improve --> realize how bad it looks-->learn more anatomy and so on...

everytime I got back to the sculpt I saw new thigns that were wrong so the improvement happened naturally. Just take your time and implement a few breaks so you get a new perspective

@Elithenia
thank you!!

ohne

@JohnnyTheKid
thanks for the advice! I guess knowledge of anatomy is key indeed.

One more question though, did you first create a base mesh in a neutral hand pose, then do some posing (with transpose or zspheres) and finally adding more detail, or did you sculpt straight away in the pointing pose as on the renders?

JohnnyTheKid

@ohne
first rough base, then pose (keeping fingers as separate polygroups is a lifesaver haha), and then all anatomical features. details at the very end.

Dragonar

Epic dude !! really nice I love it !

Tectonic

really well done!

Blond

Nice wokr but there are obvious issues that hit me regarding the overall morphology of the hand:

The thum is too short! The average thum should be able to reach half of the index finger when relaxed and nearly  reach the tip when extended.

Toku

good job

JohnnyTheKid

Thank you guys!! I appreciate your feedback a lot!
Sorry for the very late response. I got pretty absorbed by facial anatomy learning and forgot to check the thread..

@Blond
Nice spot! I think you are right, there is still something off with the length of some fingers, although I'am not sure the thumb is really too short. Consider that the thumb is pointed downwards. But looking at it a few weeks later, I think there might be something off with the knuckles of the thumb...

Did a quick fix on a few fingers, I think its a little better now.
- slightly longer thumb / changes on knuckles
- longer proximal phalanges of middle and ringfinger



thanks again!

kreativbloc

Really great job on these. The only weird thing would be this area on the outside of the top of the hand. That division seems very harsh, specially in this shot where its casting that shadow. Everything else is perfect honestly.

Chidambhar_Swaroop

wooh nice work bro ..... I should start practicing anatomy, now !!!! 

JohnnyTheKid

thank you for your feedback guys!!