A hand

{scumworks}

Havent been modelling for quite some time, and the idear of starting a major project was daunting. So instead I launched a small one with an old enemy, the hand.

Donno if its worth posting, or if it can hold any interrest at all. Non the less xD... I did.

Wanted a tech'ish glove, used for combat (maby a sniper). "Low poly" ofc, tho the texture ress is ~512 (dont really care =D).

Since im mosly doing this for the exercise, I'll prolly rig it and post a vid later... or something xD.

Crits are

-cas

poopinmymouth

Nice texture work, but black is probably not the best background color to show off dark model like this. Can you repost a better grab? also if you could show it deformed it would help, since those single loops at the top look like they will collapse quite a bit. I'd actually suggest making the fingers less triangles around, and more dense at the joints.

Nice painterly texture though, I dig.

Neox

Nice hand, but are the fingers going to bend upwards or why do you have subdivision on the lower side but not on the upper side of the fingers?

{scumworks}

Thanks for crit'n'replys.

I've really been struggling with this one, as I suck at anatomy, rigging and basically anything that dont stand still or can be PS'd away . Keeping polycount low only added to that.

Proceeded with a quick rig, and as you mentioned the overall geometry causes problems. Think my server can stream the movie [only 492kb] http://www.scumworks.com/otr/xsi/hand/hand_mov.mov
(oh gawd.. the thumb so bad)

I cut the finger joints on the "lowers side" as I thought they might collapse better when bend.. I should cut it all the way through instead ^^. I agree poop, more detail to the joins.

-cas

skankerzero

knuckles like this work for me, but they might be a bit higher poly than you want to go, so try different arrangements.

{scumworks}

Thanks for the sample skanker. Wasn't aiming for super low poly style, but I need practice in the area. Will try an animated my further projects from now on, as it gives better insight on my screwups. Cheers.

-cas

poopinmymouth

Here's a sample of my edge loops for hands.

http://www.poopinmymouth.com/net/pcount/examples/ex_lo_hand_wire.jpg

{scumworks}

Fantastic hand poop, looking at my own mesh now makes me cry.
For some reason I can look a billion times on a shape and still dont get the geometry
Do ya'll start with a box and take it from there? Use ref in ortho or just photos on the sideline?

On a side note, thanks for the video tutorials on you site poop

SuperOstrich

Poop made that hand while working at Neversoft (as a base hand for all characters to use)...I STILL use it, two years later. One day I'll make my own, but it's a hard act to follow.

Rob Galanakis

Thank you poop I am now going to steal that hand and use it as best I can copy, though its generally a bit higher-poly than I go for hands.

SuperOstrich

He made a lower poly version for us too. It pretty much looks just as good in most situations.