From the course: 2D Animation: Animate Monsters & Aliens
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Hand
- [Instructor] Crawling hands are one of those inherently creepy monsters because they're so much like spiders or an insect. For my version of this animation, I've put my own hand on the table and moved it across like a little spider walk or a crab walk. What you see here was how my hand did it. I led with my little finger and then the rest of my fingers rolled. Put your own hand on the table right now, forget what I just said, and move your own hand and try to do it slowly and see what kind of wave pattern your hand does. It could be different from mine. And there's definitely different ways of doing it. You could just as easily lead with your index finger or maybe go index finger, small finger, middle fingers. So there's definitely other ways of doing it. Do bear in mind that the ring finger is the hardest to move. If you try it, put all of your fingers down on the table, try to move it, you can feel that tendon not wanting to move. It kind of tends to move with the middle finger…
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