Poses and hand controls

The pose cards on the left are starting points: Relaxed, Claw, Pointing, Pinch, OK, Grasp, Spread, Fist, Cupped, Holding, Bent wrist and Straight wrist. Choose one, then refine it in the Pose panel.

Model, hand side and position

At the top of the Pose panel you choose a Female or Male hand. The pose, camera and light stay as they are, so you can compare the same gesture on either hand.

Right hand and Left hand mirror the model without changing the pose. Vertical stands the arm upright. Lying lays it across the support and keeps the current side facing up. The study opens lying, palm down. Turn over flips between palm up and palm down, so you can study the opposite face without rebuilding the gesture.

Changing to another pose normally keeps the overall hand position you already chose, so you can compare gestures from the same general orientation. Choosing Vertical or Lying reframes the camera automatically.

Fingers and thumb

Under Fingers, each finger has its own curl and spread, such as Index curl and Index spread. Finger spread moves the fingers apart or together as a group, while the individual spread controls let you fine-tune one finger. The thumb has separate Thumb curl and Thumb spread controls.

Some presets, such as Fist, Pinch, OK and Claw, use pose-specific shaping so they close or meet more naturally than a simple set of curl values.

Wrist, forearm and whole arm

Under Wrist and arm, Wrist bend flexes the hand at the wrist, Wrist rotation rotates it across the wrist and Forearm twist rolls the hand through the forearm. Under Whole arm, Tilt, Turn and Roll rotate the complete hand and arm study in three axes.

Moving a finger or wrist control changes the pose without moving the camera. Use Camera and perspective when you want to change what the viewer sees rather than the hand itself.

Reset gesture returns the finger and wrist gesture to the relaxed starting pose while keeping the current overall hand placement.