The Animation Lounge shows how to animate a hand, in this case using Blender, however, there are some techniques and practices shown here that can be easily be transported to any application workflow by simply being animation focused.

Although Blender might not be your central application, its still a great watch to see the animation concepts and workflows to create a great little animation of a hand. Check out the post for the tutorial on Creating a Hand Animation in Blender here.

in this tutorial I’m using blender to animate a simple rig named the HAND. This is the introduction and in this video I’m speaking about preparing your shot. Having a reference, importing a reference and placing your camera

Here, Mathias Aubry shows how to prepare for animation, the importance of having proper references and thumbnails which will provide direction, and how to bring in the references in Blender to start creating the animation.