Attached Link: How I created the Hands of Conflict

Ever since I had come across Eschers Drawing Hands, it had captured my imagination and I had always wanted to do a 3D version of the same. However, Escher had done it in 2D and black and white. To do it in 3D and in colour offered its own challenges. The biggest challenge was to show a believable metamorphosis from a 2D drawing to a 3D form, as also a smooth transition of textures. The first step was to pose the Right hand in Poser and bring it along with texture to Bryce (export .obj). I then positioned the hands on the paper, made of a near flattened terrain. Using the draft render as guide, I painted the hands in grayscale in Photoshop. (1026x1026 pixels) I imported the grey scale image as a terrain map and then positioned it along with the hands. I did two renders. One with all material ascribed the paper texture and the second with the hand in skin texture. I brought the two renders over to Photoshop and masked out portion of the hands from the paper textured render. On a third layer I drew in the pencil etchings and also the eraser markings using the smudge tool. Finally the composite image!

Here the screen shots.

great i love this kind of information.

Thank you for the "how to" Avi! I loved your pic by the way.

Hey Dan thanx! :)

Absolutely stunning work Avi, in fact, very impressive how you went about doing this piece. I for one appreciate you sharing some of your techniques in how you created such a wonderful piece of art. Something I have never really got into much, but you have shown how powerful the terrain editor is. Excellent info and thanks. Cheers Scott.

Really interesting - thanks for this. Barb

Oh! You're my hero of today! :)) Just what I wished for. Thank you! Terrains, eh. I wouldn't have thought of that, but it sure makes sense. I'm batteling some bryce modelling for the challenge, but it doesn't get me anywhere. l Thank you so much for posting this!!

Thanks for sharing your technique.

Thanks! I love the picture and it is very helpful to see how you made it. Peggy

hmmm..maybe it's best I didn't try this after all..;) very good work

I figured it was along those lines, thanks for sharing the details (the terrain was something i hadn't thought of) Learn something everyday and I do appreciate it! Richard

Excellent work. Thank you for sharing your secrets!