Stranger Things VR Project: Proxy Hand Animation

 

Proxy Hand Animation For Stranger Things VR Project

    Responsible for the 6 proxy animations for the player's VR hands : pointing, relaxed, grab, using psychic power, thumb down, and index curl. Took the animation from maya into Unreal 5.2 and worked with our team's tech artist to connect the animation to the input. Mirrored the key animation from Right hand to Left hand manually with the intent to mirror procedurally in the animation blueprint at a later point. The player can now interact with a D20 and use psychic power to hurt the Demogorgon in a similar fashion to Eleven from Stranger Things.

character hand model by Tristan Spear

character hand rig by Cal Wohnoutka

blueprint implementation by Haoyu Wu

VR environment by Haley Kroppman

saved everything separately for easy iteration later during the process