Character Rigging for Beginners – Advanced Hand Rigging 2024

Take your 3D Rigging skills to the next level in 2024 by creating a sophisticated Hand Rig from start to finish.

Created by: Anass Cherkaoui
3D Artist, Graphic Designer as well as a Developer

What Will I Learn?

• Build the actual hand bones and then refine their placement for more realitic articulation.
• Add secondary bones that will help in preserving volume when bending the fingers.
• Build a knuckle system to preserve the nice shape of our hand knuckles.
• Build a twist system for the forearm, to Add a nice twisting effect.
• Create the main animation controls for our hand and use constraints to setup the connections.
• Skin our hand and take advantage of the powerful skinning tools available in 3ds Max to improve skin deformations.
• Create a really cool IKFK system, that we can use to pose our hand in the Normal FK mode using simple FK Controls or use the IK mode to pose the hand in a different fashion or, to simulate for instance pressure on our fingers.

Requirements

• A computer
• Any version of Autodesk 3ds Max
• Exercise files are provided
• Motivation to learn 😉

Target audience

• Anyone interested in 3D Animation and 3D Rigging in general and want to know how to create a sophisticated hand rig with a wide range of motion.
• This course is for anyone who wants to learn 3D Rigging and how to create flexible hand rigs but don't know where to start.
• It's perfect for complete beginners with zero experience in Rigging as well as intermediate and advanced people.