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The Handy Gesture Maker

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With its 26 degrees of freeedom, the hand is the most versatile instrument on the human body. So why not give it the recognition it deserves, and make it the subject of your next computer masterpiece!

However, if you are not an expert animator and do not have on hand (pun!) a boned ‘hand’ model together with a simple animation tool, then you come a bit unstuck. This is where "The Handy Gesture Maker’ comes to your rescue. Using this tool, you can quickly and easily configure any number of different hand gestures, save each one as a simple text file which can then be loaded into your "3D RAD" application.

Hand configuration and animation is important to many areas such as:
  1. sign language education;
  2. education and training in professions that require high level of dexterity (e.g., surgery, dentistry etc.);
  3. technical illustration;
  4. art education;
  5. character animation;
  6. musical instrument instruction;
  7. visual communication gestures in general;
  8. maybe a great new computer game with "Handy Andy" as the main character !

To wet your appetite here is a free download of the operator instructions (Windows Word .doc format):
the_handy_gesture_maker_user_manual.zip
File Size: 518 kb
File Type: zip
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Now FREE:
thehandygesturemaker_installer.zip
File Size: 11512 kb
File Type: zip
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