Hyde Hands

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Hyde Hands



For Hyde's hands, it was just a case of using the same method as sculpting his head. I used Jekyll's finished hand model and altered and deformed it to fit Hyde's character.

I found a lot of useful reference of hands and bone conditions to help achieve my result, one example being Rheumatoid Arthritis. 



Moodboard for Hyde's hands:





Hyde's hands sculpt process, starting with Jekyll's finished hand model:




As the model had subdivision and was already unwrapped, I decided to do a test bake to ensure that the detail would show well on the low poly mesh.






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