Hand Tutorial

[funkyzhu]

Hi,

im searching for a nurbs hands tutorial.
I try a lot of ways to model the hand and the fingers.
But all what i recieve are bad results.
I try to trim the holes to connect the fingers with the hand. But no smooth result.
The other way to detach the hand and delete the surface to recieve the holes for filling the distance between the fingers and the hand.. ok good way, and then use globalstitch and try artisan sculpt tool , but there i recieve no smooth edges ... hmm any suggestions
if anyone have a link where is a tutorial about it ...

thx a lot

cu oska

[kubba]

I'v had same problem, try pulling cv's after global stitch. One thing to mention- you can always move seam to position where it's not visible.

[alleno]

Here's a couple for ya:

Building a NURBS Hand by Jeremy Birn:

http://www.3drender.com/rhino/NURBSHAND/index.html

Quoting from the first paragraph: "This tutorial was written with specific command references and screenshots from Rhino 3D, but the same steps can be followed in other NURBS modeling packages..."

Also, right here on Highend3D, there is a three part character modeling tutorial by Michael Bazhutkin. Part 2, called: Head, hands, cloth (seamless modeling in Maya) can b found at:

http://www.highend3d.com/maya/tutorials/mi...lb/seamless2.3d

While it turns out to be a little short on hand modeling details, it has this excelent screen shot:

http://www.highend3d.com/maya/tutorials/mi...ges/hand-1b.gif

Good Luck...

Maya Rocks the House!

[blackscreen]

If you have a good bookstore at hand you might try the Maya 2.0 book from the people at Gnomon. I saw it yesterday and it has an extensive tutorial on making a hand, as well as some of Alex's other tutorials. They probably have a link somewhere on their site...www.gnomon.com

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[geoffcrowther]

or you can do it in polygons and subd's in which case no tut is necessary.

scan you hand if you care about proportions...otherwise just look at your hand for the shape you want.

okay i know, not the answer you were looking fer
8)

[kubba]

Personally I would stay away from Maya2 Character animation book. There's nothing usefull for character modeling.