Thoughts on hand poses
Hand poses can be one of the most important tools that the animator has to communicate attitude. They also can be some of the most difficult to master. If that weren’t enough, computer animation allows for ugly hand poses never before possible in hand drawn animation. A few years ago I scribbled out a few do’s and don’ts of hand posing. I don’t know what happend to those drawings, but I was searching on Google images and found them. Click the images for larger versions. Apologies for the illegibility of my handwriting.
Enjoy-
Dr. A
Rududu on the road
Why only 3 fingers and a thumb?
Scott
Great stuff!
Drew
wow. every once in a while you come across something that you know will be helpful to you in the future and isn’t just someone’s diary. this is gonna be good and i’m definitely bookmarking you guys. thanks.
-drew
ps. just got some eric goldberg notes on timing from tim hodge and i have ‘em posted on my site if you’re interested…
http://www.artoftoon.blogspot.com
otherthings
This is awesome! Great ideas, clearly laid out. I’ve printed these and put ‘em up on my wall so they’ll be there next time I need to pose some hands. Looking forward to more!
Ali
Awesome stuff!
Edweird Gray
very helpful HAND-outs…..nice stuff…later edweird
Jeremy
This is excellent! My old layout supervisor use to say that the hands are as important as the face for expression and he would let me know when a hand was poorly drawn(even when there was no time to fix it). I thank him to this day for harping on the fundamentals. Thanks again for the reminder! Great work and I’m off to study more hands
PixarVixen
This is nice!
I have to admit that hands still give me a hard time. Feet too.
Thanks for posting this. It’s helping me already.
~~=oP
Adam of the Redwoods
I totally agree that computer animation has had some ugly hand poses in the past. I’m glad there are aniamtors out there who take note to these details!
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