Levantine wrote:
I'm digging your designs, raps. Curious though, how do you decide how you'll do the hands? Any particular reason some have the open palms like Budo?
Honestly, it's because I don't like them always being in the "two fists down" position all the time, and there's a really limited ability to change the upper arms without messing up the upper clothing.
I've done a few with the arms in different positions, but that takes a long time to do. The easiest thing to do to change it up is to change the hands. The choice to do a certain hand is generally driven by what kind of sleeve they have, and weather they are using gloves or not. The base hand in flesh doesn't always work with all the sleeves, so the "thumbs up" and "open hand" are good dynamic hand poses that also have the benefit of covering up a bad sleeve transition.
I try to make the position make sense to the figure - Budo looks like he might be sizing someone up to deliver an open hand slap. Upright, that hand kind of looks like a "Halt" sign that I used with my cobra troopers.
There are a lot of limitations to the tool, but working around them is fun if a little tough sometimes.
And that is a waaaaaay too long answer to a simple question.
TL;DR: I don't want all of them in the same position, but there are only so many things you can do to make them look distinct - hands are the easiest one.
