low poly hands

steady

Any body feel like giving some advice on making some nice hands for low poly models? Always a difficult part for me. Maybe just post up some shots of the ones you like to use as a base? Thanks
Here is what I have after a quick 10 minutes:

xskinyx

heres a hand i did:

maybe a tad high poly for what it is

Neo_God

Personally, I find for low poly hands making the fingers 4 sided and like that make for not only annoying textureing, but also just a weird looking finger. Here's how I usually go about low poly hands
This hand is about 270, and it could probably have some shaved off of it.

poopinmymouth

This is the one I use for higher poly models, 701 tris for the hand. I'll try to dig up some wireframes.



*edit, here's a wire of it, no normal.

Bryan Cavett

I like to spend a little bit more polys in the hand.

edit: Nice hands Ben.

Eric Chadwick

HandMaker ftw!

MoP

lol eric

edit: poop's hand models are still some of the best i've seen, both lowpoly and highpoly versions - intensely good feeling of tension and volume in them.

Blaizer

My contribution to this "hands thread", done using modo.
534 and 849 triangles respectively.

steady

Thanks guys for contributing, really helped me out!
xskinxy- good to see a new baltimorian showing up on this board, let me know if you ever want to meet up for a modelling session.
Per, your post makes me feel like the guy in this gif:


I learned how to draw by tracing, so I guess I learn by example. I will make an effort to do more on my own though.
Here is what I got, I am trying to model a hand in a leather glove, I guess Bryan's hand helped me out the most here, thanks


hopefully this thread will be of use to others though.

fritz

so far...poop wins

Sharx

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Thanks guys for contributing, really helped me out!

[/ QUOTE ] Thanks guys for contributing, it really helped me out too. I'm still studying the human anatomy and I was just on hands so now I can save these for future references whenever I get to where I have to model a hand.

EmAr

I have an urge to post these notes by Steven Stahlberg: http://www.androidblues.com/handtut.html

Although I am no master of modeling, I'd like to add that fingers do not merge into the hand so sharp. There's a transition as far as I see.

Thanks everyone who posted their hands BTW. Those really help a lot

Smirnoffka

Wow, poop those hands are better than my real physical ones. I mean, seriosuly. Wow.

xskinyx

poop- did you sculpt from that low poly or something more quadrangulated? that is... if you sculpted at all.

poopinmymouth

I made this hand first, using my own hands as reference, I started from a box, and made the fingers from cylinders. I modeled the index finger, then cloned it around for the other three, which I modeled in this pose for extra details. Very little life shows in a hand with fingers outstretched. The thumb was extruded out using strips, and just the tip was used from the index finger, then morphed. I build the low poly posted previously in this thread, by strip modeling over top of this one for proportions. I wanted to start the low poly from scratch and really pay attention to edge flow. I placed the joint locations myself to ensure it worked with my topology so the hand would feel "fisty" when balled up. The normal map came from this high poly, plus a greyscale layer for the veins and knuckle wrinkles, and creases in the palm.

obson

that's a nice hand poop

popawheelie

Awesome hands, Poop. Great sense of proportion and understanding of bones, muscles, veins and tendons. The whole shabang.

pop

SkullboX

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edit: poop's hand models are still some of the best i've seen, both lowpoly and highpoly versions - intensely good feeling of tension and volume in them.

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Quoted for agreement, excellent hands.