Here’s a fun little question for Character Artists out there;
If you were to label your character’s Right and Left,
Do you base them on your character’s hand side like this:
OR
Do you base them on your own hand side when facing the monitor like this:
I personally use the first one (the correct one, JK 
) for my characters.
So, which one do you use?
Hi, i always name the character’s right hand as right.
very good!
I’m not a character artist in specific, but I label left and right always from the model’s point of view. Anything other might change according to where in the scene the model is located; which way it faces the camera.
This is why boats and planes use port and starboard instead of left and right. 
Which arm would you raise if i ask you to raise your left arm ? Would there any difference if i’m in front of you, behind you or on the left or right side ? Or if i would talk to you over some speakers from outside of the room?
A fun answer to the fun question could be: i name them .L and .TOL… .Left and .TheOtherLeft… or .RightOrFalseLeft… abbreviated .ROFL
(But we also get into problems if the character has more then two arms…)
Hi,
I name each part of model from model point of view
well that wasn’t really the point of the question but whatever… i guess
In edit mode, I use Armature > Names menu to use Auto-Name operators.
So this was serious ??
NO
“fun” as in “it’s a simple question that only requires a simple answer maybe with a fun twist and clearly doesn’t need to go beyond the point for such simple question”
If you’re only looking for simple answers, this isn’t really a discussion, you could just make a poll 
that aside, I agree with what’s already been said- left and right aren’t relative, they have to be a constant, especially in animation. Left and right hands is the only answer that works at a production level
