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Hands

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- [Instructor] Again, here are some cartoons drawn from my course Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters, also in the library, and in this section I've used some hand drawings to show you how you can draw a nice, solid cartoony hand, apply the same principles to realistic hands. So the reason for the A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, you don't have to worry about that if you're just drawing, but if you ever work in a puppet system like you do in Harmony or Flash and you're drawing lots of different hand symbols, I find this naming convention to be much easier than three-quarters, or profile, or whatever, because this will stack alphanumerically in your library, so it's easier to find different hand symbols or images. So I'll move on beyond that and just show you what it looks like if we begin to animate this. So as you can see from this, the previous hands, and I didn't try particularly to make them animatable, but I thought:…

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