have you tried grouping the whole set and then duplicating with an x scale of -1?

yea that's totally a WAY better staff... =D

how does it look when you render it? a lot of times nurbs objects look really screwed up in the viewport, and it's not a graphics card problem, it's a preview tesselation problem... so if it looks...

well there was back in the day when maya would only run on unix computers (so we just had a lab full of SGI workstations)... i don't think windows could run it til 3.0 - can't remember what version,...

great improvement... nice job.

if you were focusing on the tires, i think i'd render... just the tires. screw the car, you wanna see how the tires look and the car just covers the tires and increases your render times.

problem is, posing a lego character in a pose the actual toy can't make looks weird. (talkin about the leg moving to the side...)

i'm assuming since you're in a 3D class that it's only a quarter or a semester or so?

if your animation is going to be longer than a minute or two using all the multiple characters, speech,...

you could create the text in 3d using nurbs or polys and then make the letters containers and fill them with fluids and animate 'em

how do you do that? i have no idea. i never bothered to learn...

also kinda reminds me of the gnome king from the movie return to oz