Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2
This course will look in the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. It's aimed at people that have some modeling experience in Maya but are having trouble with complex objects.
# 16 04-08-2004 , 04:10 AM
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i would take a different approach building this character. maybe build him peice by peice then stitch. right now, even without seeing you wires, it seems you have too much geometry for this basic mesh. but this is still a wip, i await your progress. user added image keep it up

# 17 07-08-2004 , 10:55 AM
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Just a small update not alot done, converted to ploys and combined the head neck and torso. A few quick tweaks and into SubD for a preview shot.

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# 18 07-08-2004 , 12:32 PM
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Legs attached, and some work done on the ribcage.

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# 19 07-08-2004 , 05:51 PM
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Hey LP

Looking good so far. Are you going to poly after you've rough out the nurbs? You know for the face detail etc or are you gonna patch it?

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# 20 07-08-2004 , 05:53 PM
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Last two images were SubD, am tweaking in polys and then converting to fine tune. I'm having a hard time trying to model the jowls with nice loops. Will get there eventually.


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# 21 07-08-2004 , 06:08 PM
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SubD.... AAAHHHH a man after my own heart!!! Post it with a wire on shaded, I'll have a look if you want, if you are having trouble.

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# 22 08-08-2004 , 11:16 AM
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Thanks Jango here's how it stands at the moment. Still loads of work to do on it, eye sockets etc, but I don't want to get it looking good then completely re-model it to get good loops unless I really have to do it that way.

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# 23 08-08-2004 , 11:49 AM
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Right just watched Kurts Organic2 vid and come up with this. Comments and tips would be most appreciated.

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# 24 08-08-2004 , 12:57 PM
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Well hopefully this is coming along quite well.

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# 25 08-08-2004 , 06:57 PM
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That's frikkin' awesome dude! user added image


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# 26 08-08-2004 , 07:30 PM
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nice.

# 27 08-08-2004 , 09:43 PM
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Hey LonePig

I hope you dont mind but Dr Jango came out for a bit of sd surgery. Its cos theres a lot of sub patches due to the triangles in there. Which is something i try to avoid like the plague. Fair enough trianles have their uses but once you convert this model to poly you may run into probs when doing facial animation cos your tesselation will be dense in the jowl areas and it may be a nightmare to uv also.

I've tried to quad it as much as possible in those areas but I think the edge flow would benefit either way from it. Its just these sort of things to bear in mind when you do this sort of thing. Hope it helps anyway

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looks really cool dude! Great job!


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# 29 08-08-2004 , 09:51 PM
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Thanks Dr Jango you've diagnosis is as usual spot on. I'll start the prescribe course of anti-triangulates straight away :p

# 30 08-08-2004 , 10:00 PM
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Excellent!! Anymore pain and we'll take another look.

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