House Factory (working title)

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.

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# 1 03-07-2006 , 01:50 PM

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Hi,

its been a while since i posted a new thread, this is a strange but cool w.i.p. Its based on one of a series of drawings my dad has done where houses who are kinda living (arms and legs) build these worlds full of houses in a factory and this is part of the series where the world is launched into space using this balloon type thing (pic 13 shows the balloon) its based on a flat 2d drawing and has been replicated as close as possible, i hope to be able to show you the original pic as soon as i can...and there is a long way to go.....
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# 3 03-07-2006 , 01:52 PM

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all crits and coms welcome please!!

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# 4 03-07-2006 , 01:54 PM

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insane :bow:

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# 5 03-07-2006 , 03:08 PM

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I absolutely love it!

Cant wait to see what it looks like when its textured!

Do u have any plans to do an animation?

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# 6 03-07-2006 , 04:06 PM

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no words can explain :eeek2:

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# 7 03-07-2006 , 05:43 PM

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WOW AMAZING, Absolutely Top Quality detailed, this should be in a film or something!!!!

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# 8 03-07-2006 , 05:44 PM

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Superb man, damm fine concept, give your old man a pat on the back for that idea.

Great modeling, hope you get it textured and animated(lots of rigid bodies and constraints I would guess to get that going!!

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the level of detail is insane user added image

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# 10 03-07-2006 , 09:11 PM

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one more thing. this would truly be amazing if it can transform into something. like changing between a house to the factory

gosh your still not done i'd call this a decent finished project.

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# 11 03-07-2006 , 11:25 PM

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very cool. . .can't wait to see this in action!

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# 13 04-07-2006 , 03:44 AM

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It looks very...English! :-) Awesome work! :-)

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# 14 04-07-2006 , 07:03 PM

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Coool

Hey mate, this is looking really coool, the details you have are good, this is gonna take so long to texture! i will hopefully get those cool textures soonish so will send u them too ya when i get a chance! Keep going with this, would love to see the 2d drawing as well!

Have fun!

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# 15 04-07-2006 , 10:17 PM

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Blimey!! cant believe all the feedback ive had from this, and all positive!! thanks so much! there must be some crits out there though somewhere? lol...thanks everyone, i am plannin on texturing this when its finished, the majority of the modelling is done but theres some work to do yet on the world-holding balloon thing and lots of little bits which might be at first unnoticable such as a few belts and ropes to link all the cogs and gears up. (not to mention the world itself which is basically a sphere crammed with lil houses). great idea 13th resident but i think i would have to adjust everything to much to get it to work, it would be nice to animate it and will one day but at the moment a frame render of the whole structure is taking over 2 hours!! anyway keep an eye for more updates this week! cheers user added image