Hey everyone....I've started on my next project for work.
A potential client wants to see if we can do any hand animation...as in, turn a simple hand (cut off at the wrist) into a character (similar to the hand in "The Adam's Family"...anyone remember that?)...they want it to look photorealistic as well....so that adds to the challenge a bit
Anyways....here's my progress so far.....the hand model is not mine (it's the output of a 3d scan)....but all of the hairfx, shading, rigging etc is mine
In this animation you can see the effect of my dragging the wrist around. I have all of the fingers rigged with IK so that the hand will be able to walk around on 2 fingers.
By the way....the skin shader is just a regular max material with the translucency shader applied. The nice SSS effects you see here are therefore faked
(which means rendertimes per frame are mere seconds). This render also has a light ambient occlusion pass (rendered with Mental Ray) multiplied on top for a bit of extra beauty shading
http://www.theonlyt.com/Main/Animations ... dtest1.mov
Anywho...this is a WIP thread....so more to come!
Animare 51 posts22 Sep 2005Awsome man! very realstic...!
