Modeling a Human hand, Tips and Download

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Maya Only offers 2 ways of creasing an edge/point, either full or partial crease.
In the following little movie i'll show you an approach to control the crease.

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The movie first demonstrated the 2 default cases.

To make a crease somewhere between a full and partial, you'll start with a full crease,
Refine the creased edge/point 1, 2, 3 or even more times, then perform an UNCREASE.
This will leve you with a sharp crease, still with a radius.

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All models are zipped Maya ascii files


Tutorial model Original hand Polyhand1 Polyhand basemesh

For those of you only running on Maya Complete we'll take the basemesh and do one
polygonal subdivision on the whole basemesh, pull some points so the polyhand looks something like the level1
SubD hand

I recommend you download Dirk Bialluch:s EXCELLENT script ConnectPolyshape on Highend3D

Direct link to the script

This script simulates SubD modeling.
The nails are easily recreated also with polysmooth. With an extrusion of the nail faces you can shape
the nail by dragging points after the extrude, much in the same manner as shown in the tutorial.


Any comments and questions can be directed to me, just drop me a mail

Thank you, Christer Dahl