THE HAND

Positives -Creating the hand was surprisingly simple from my experience, I thought that it would be more complicated than the scorpion challenge because we had to use our own hands as reference. I found the images of my hand useful at times but really, I didn’t take much advantage of them when modelling, I just followed the teachers guidance to create my shapes, afterwards I would often look down at my actual hand to look for detail.

Negatives -I had issues with the duplication of the first finger, I would hold CTRL + D and see no difference. I later found when moving the subject, it was embedding the duplicates within itself. After I realised this, I went to google and found out that following the duplication of the object, I have to use the move tool to view the duplicated object.

I found shaping the hand quite relaxing for a short time. I had recently gotten used to the tools in Maya so I had the chance to connect with the program a little more comfortably today. Although I had enjoyed one thing, I found it difficult configuring a way to combine Vertices from separate objects, fingers to a palm etc. I had read through my notes and followed with combining each isolated shape together and then selecting two or more vertices to Merge To Centre, but later I found that this didn’t really merge them, it just overlapped the vertices.