GEMINI RISING-alien hand

Gemini Rising is a live action movie starring Lance Heriksen. The production open up the effects creation to the very talented Blender community.
Here is my contribution (9 hours) to the alien hand shot (the production design ):

> animation test 1

render below are about 15 sec/image on my amd phenom2 x6. Very fast for SSS shader!

Blender Fracture tools

Some tests using fracture tools, Bullet and Logic connections to control the collision and procedural animation. Inspired by this tutorial


>video