Retopology joining hands to body in Maya2018

anakon

Hi am new to retopology and was wondering how to join the retopo for my characters hands to the retopo of their body in MAYA? or if their is a good tutorial out their as the ones i see never bother showing the hands for some reason. thank you.

throttlekitty

There's nothing special about joining hands specifically, it's all down to how many faces you have on one side versus the other and how you solve it when they don't match. Here's a handy image showing some of the ways you can split geometry to get where you need to be.