For this scene I needed a human hand to hold the balloon. The hand model was downloaded from turbosquid.com and then placed over a biped. The next stage was to add a skin modifier to the hand. This would prove quite tricky because all of the vertices had to be weighted properly to each finger. After a lot of tweaking I finally got the fingers working, although it wasn't perfect and there were parts of the model that crunched up, but it looked O.k for the short shot I needed to take.
I was thinking of having Balloon Boy in shot but there were a couple of reasons why I didn't. First the hand looked too small if he was in the shot and it looked strange that only the hand could be seen. Secondly I wanted the string to act realistically so I tried to use the rope reactor but it didn't seem to work properly because I couldn't get it to move like it was attached to a balloon.
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