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!

Head Sculpt- skin

sculpting skin wrinkles and adjusting specularity map...

Head Sculpt - 3d painting texture

Painting texture directly on the 3d high resolution sculpt is so cool in Blender. You just have to first unwrap the base shape in editMode. I will try to paint bump later...

head sculpt - materials

A render test of my previous sculpt with SSS and procedural textures. No UV.
Blender internal renderer

Head sculpt

A 2 hours sculpt from scratch. I've been inspired (a lot!) by Jonas redneck model.