Difficult Hand Transitions

GregSmith · Post by **GregSmith** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 5:15 pm

Hands moving and turning and interacting with objects are probably the hardest thing to "model" and animate. One hand is as complex as an entire character, and it is unified in structure, so the difficulty is multiplied by the number of fingers.

Luckily for us, Moho makes the job 1/5 as difficult as producing the same animation frame-by-frame, yet also retains the "handmade" look of cell animation.

Using a very limited number of points, and very few bones, the task becomes more of a joy than a pain, and takes far less time than traditional methods:

http://www.visiontovision.com/SimplestH ... ating2.mov

Greg Smith

cribble · Post by **cribble** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 5:31 pm

"Share your work" section.

Real good what you've done. Looks Disney like.

GregSmith · Post by **GregSmith** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 9:04 pm

It is puzzling when considering flipping a hand from being viewed at the backside, through transition, and then over to the palm side, but it can be done in 2D, without frame-by-frame tedium, and with far less effort than a similar project done in "three-dee".

http://www.visiontovision.com/SimplestH ... ating3.mov

Greg Smith

GregSmith · Post by **GregSmith** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:17 pm

And, after putting in a little more snap and smoothing things out a bit:

http://www.visiontovision.com/SimplestH ... ating4.mov

Greg Smith

Nichod · Post by **Nichod** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:05 am

I'm sure we'd all love to hear about your technique and perhaps some sample files.

Brian

Glenfx · Post by **Glenfx** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:13 am

I give you an idea of what we'v done in production.

We created a small gallery of different hand poses, each pivoted at the same place, then created a switch layer and added all the gallery of hands to it.

Then all we do is key the switch. Its less work and it looks much natural and better with less to worry about.

myles · Post by **myles** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:05 am

With interpolation where possible, by the look of it?

Very nice! Looks good!

Regards, Myles.

GregSmith · Post by **GregSmith** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:13 pm

Nichod:

I am afraid that will take a little more time. I'm short of that at the moment.

Greg Smith

Nichod · Post by **Nichod** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:32 pm

You never did reply if you are the same Greg Smith that's an avid AM user?

GregSmith · Post by **GregSmith** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:46 pm

Nichod:

Where did you get that idea? And why do you ask?

Greg Smith

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