How to retopologize hands
When approaching hands, we need to break them down into parts. Thankfully, with the hand, it is not too difficult, as they are very naturally broken up into segments. The fingers and the palm make up the detailed areas of the hand. This makes it easy to start, but it also complicates joining the sections together. Ideally, you would have the detailed areas separate from each other. This makes it much easier to connect them because the area in between is less important. Because these detailed areas are right next to each other, we need to be more creative with how we join them together to ensure good and even topology. You can see our hand in Figure 6.1.
Figure 6.1 – Close up of a hand
On the hand, the fingers are a good place to start. The tip of the finger is usually the most detailed part of the finger, especially if the character has fingernails. In this case, our character does not, but the tips of the fingers are still...
