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 08-11-2011 , 01:32 AM
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hi everybody,

this is just what i end up with after beginning playing around with a sphere and render tests with a hdr image.
first i tried to make it as much realistic as possible but it´s a bit stylised.
worked with maya, mentalray and ps for post-stuff

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# 2 08-11-2011 , 08:33 AM
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thats a nice start, what are you going to learn next? more lighting and shading?

# 3 08-11-2011 , 03:57 PM
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thx honestdom . i saw your work while digging around : high professional awesome sruff!

i realy would like to do some creamy chocolate thing... don´t know how good maya is with fluids.
adding global illumination to the renderoptions would be nice to try...
still have no experience with gi... and i love tweaking renderoptions and scene setups to get a nice look

# 4 08-11-2011 , 07:12 PM
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hey, i was making a pea shader at work today. It was actually quite fun. its an organic object so you could really put lots of detail in it. It might be a nice exercise to try out.
you already have the bowl user added image

# 5 08-11-2011 , 10:18 PM
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sounds realy interesting! i would realy like to work with that shader. maybe you could upload it somewhere?

# 6 09-11-2011 , 01:05 AM
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Haha, I meant you should do one. It's a natural progression from spheres.

# 7 09-11-2011 , 01:26 AM
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hehe little misunderstanding... but good idea. any suggestions?
subsurface scattering could be nice altough a pea isn´t very translucent...

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