Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 1
This course will look at the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. We'll look at what makes a good model in Maya and why objects are modeled in the way they are.
# 1 02-03-2011 , 08:48 PM
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I doubt I'll finish but stranger things have happened...

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it would be strange if you actually completed stuff and then didn't complete this... user added image

i see you have a face on the scoreboard there




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It would be strange if it didn't pertain to elephants. user added image

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I swear, if you win I'm changing the prize to the art of Elephantsuser added image

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I swear, if you win I'm changing the prize to the art of Elephantsuser added image

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Does this exist? If so why did nobody tell me?! user added image

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im keeping my eye on this, Keep up the good work Elephant user added image




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# 7 04-03-2011 , 09:48 PM
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Pls make a zoo user added image / with elephants /

# 8 04-03-2011 , 09:53 PM
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If I dont see an elephant now....I will be emotionally crushed and my lofty view of you and your pachyderm love will be forever tarnished...because I would think it was all just a figment of my imagination. LOL

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# 9 04-03-2011 , 10:51 PM
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I filled in the face, I modelled the lights off fairground rides, just because I like fairground rides.
Don't worry, it will be populated with elephants soon enough.

A zoo's tempting but I think I'd rather make one in the wild....

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# 11 07-03-2011 , 12:10 AM
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I made floodlights. Took much longer that it should have because I even modelled the inside of the LEDs (which I then had to delete as it was too taxing). I'll probably have to delete all the LEDs and just use a texture or something.
Is there a way to hide objects but then display them automatically at render time?
I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the rest of the environment. I thought about a modern stadium, a roman colosseum, a cave, in the middle of an ocean or maybe just floating in the sky. Any thoughts?

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A modern stadium would be ok... but I think they are probably generally quite boring to look at, and elephants fighting kind of seems like it needs something more. (based on what I saw when I google image searched 'stadium' there weren't many interesting looking things. they were mostly standard and boring)

A Roman Colosseum wouldn't suit elephants unless they were standing up like your indiana jones elephant but in roman armour

A cave could possibly work, but why a giant arena is in a cave for I don't know. Unless you plan on digging out the cave to look like a modern stadium or something it kind of seems like an underground scene where elephants illegally fight each other

When you say sky I imagine the Skyworld level in smash brothers brawl and the elephants would fall to their doom when they fall off...




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A modern stadium would be ok... but I think they are probably generally quite boring to look at, and elephants fighting kind of seems like it needs something more. (based on what I saw when I google image searched 'stadium' there weren't many interesting looking things. they were mostly standard and boring)

A Roman Colosseum wouldn't suit elephants unless they were standing up like your indiana jones elephant but in roman armour

A cave could possibly work, but why a giant arena is in a cave for I don't know. Unless you plan on digging out the cave to look like a modern stadium or something it kind of seems like an underground scene where elephants illegally fight each other

When you say sky I imagine the Skyworld level in smash brothers brawl and the elephants would fall to their doom when they fall off...

I think I'd agree with the modern stadium, I definitely want to do something more original, I just don't know what.

Elephants did fight in the roman colosseums for a while but they stopped it because people didn't like seeing the elephants get hurt (that and the fact that they were pitted against 100+ people, so I'm guessing the supply ran out).

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Point taken about the sky...that would be a very bad thing...

That takes me back to square one. I know I want it to be quite dark, with the focus being on the (lit) arena; but that could be achieved just by setting it at night where ever it is...

Maybe in a canyon/desert or ocean....


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make it raining at night as well user added image
unless it's a happy dark that you're after.




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