Magical Hands and Mystical Crystals

With this animation, I wanted a fun animation for my site header. Something that would feel eerie yet mystical and magical.

I got back to a more traditional pipeline in creating this video as well, going hi-res to low-res on the hands as well as rigging it afterwards and animating.
I tend to use shape keys for my small and quick animations because most of the movements in them do not require a lot of control. These hands however needed some more finesse.