From the course: Create an Animated Character in Blender 2.9

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Connecting the thumb

Connecting the thumb

From the course: Create an Animated Character in Blender 2.9

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Connecting the thumb

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- [Instructor] To create the thumb, all we really need to do is duplicate one of these fingers. So, I think what I'll do is in face mode Alt click between two of the faces and then press Control plus on the num pad to expand that selection. And let's extend it about to there. I've gone down to just before that middle knuckle there. So with those selected let's press shift D and enter and then we can just move this aside over here and here we go. So here's our thumb. We'll move this over and let's turn it in the Z axis our Z and I'll just spin it this way. And maybe we could bring back the top view of the hand here. And I'd like to also spin it this way. If I come over here and look directly at the tip of the finger, I'll hit R and just spin it this way. Just a little bit like that. There we go. And if we go to the front view, maybe we can bring this down like that, and maybe we should turn it a bit. Let's do that. Let's…

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