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Over the last couple of years UV layout in Maya has changed for the better. In this course we're going to be taking a look at some of those changes as we UV map an entire character

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Sticky: Final Entries - My Favorite Toy Challenge | Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6

Please post your final entries for the May/June challenge in this thread. As it's a bit late and summer holidays are on we decided to give you until...

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by Acid44

05-08-2011|04:58 PM

Replies: 78

Sticky: New Challenge: Favorite Toys - $500 1st Prize! | Page: 1 2 3

The theme for this challenge is favorite toys and you can make any sort of toy you like. It can be a classic toy from your childhood or something...

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by THX1138

29-06-2011|08:23 PM

Replies: 42

Sticky: New Challenge - The Egg Challenge | Page: 1 2

New Challenge! The theme is based on egg photography. The subject of the shot must be egg, however, you can model props and build your scene from...

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by mastone

05-08-2012|02:44 PM

Replies: 24

Sticky: Horror Challenge | Page: 1 2

Hey guys, let’s get a challenge going! Clallenge Theme - Horror Model and texture a character that would be seen in a horror film or game,...

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by gster123

19-08-2010|08:40 AM

Replies: 16

Sticky: Finals Entry

Hi All, Please place your final images in this thread, with a link to your WIP so everyone can see the development of the models. Remember the...

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by s2-speedy

22-10-2010|02:11 PM

Replies: 13

Sticky: April Challenge Winner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Page: 1 2

Well its clobbering time again for the challenge!! There were some really good entries and a fair few participating which was great!! I pretty...

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by mastone

03-05-2011|01:43 PM

Replies: 23

Sticky: April Challenge Final Entries

Hey All Place your final images or vids in here, once the bell tolls!! Can you put your final poly counts in too cheers!! good luck to all ...

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by skippyk39

02-05-2011|07:16 AM

Replies: 11

Sticky: March Challenge Winner

Hey all Well its time to announce the March winner, but before I do, thanks to all who entered even if you didnt pass the finish line, it was a...

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by Gen

04-04-2011|04:57 PM

Replies: 14

Sticky: April Challenge_Lo Poly game character (New design) | Page: 1 2

Hey all despite not announcing a winner as yet for the March challenge until more entries are in, I thought I'd launch the April challenge. So......

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by Chirone

27-04-2011|09:36 PM

Replies: 20

Sticky: March Challenge Final Entries | Page: 1 2

Hey All well the end of the March challenge draws to a close in a day or two. Looks like some serious work has been going on too and those...

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by tweetytunes

02-04-2011|11:01 PM

Replies: 20

Sticky: March Challenge - Environment Creation | Page: 1 2

Well you all wanted it by the look of it, so you got it!! :D Yep time to go let loose those imaginations boys and girls, so go an create an...

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by honestdom

10-03-2011|04:44 PM

Replies: 23

Sticky: February Challenge - Speed Machine | Page: 1 2 3

Ladies n gents start your engine(s)....... This months challenge is called Speed Machine and its purely modelling. The idea is to model a...

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by Jay

27-02-2011|12:22 PM

Replies: 38

Sticky: January Challenge Winner....

is.............................. Honest Dom!!!! Well done dude, it all looks really good. Really well done. It was excuted just right with...

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by bullet1968

12-02-2011|04:09 AM

Replies: 8

Sticky: Final Entries - January Challenge -Before and After

Okay dudes The Grim Reaper is in the building - time to give up your work for judgement!! If you could each put the before and after images in...

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by THX1138

03-02-2011|09:59 PM

Replies: 14

Sticky: Super Villain Challenge | Page: 1 2 3 4

Super Villain Challenge Let's get back to doing some character-based challenges and let's do Super Villains! You can make an existing character!...

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by ColdWave

01-09-2009|11:31 AM

Replies: 50

Sticky: Final Supervillain Entries | Page: 1 2

Post your final entries here! Keep the images a manageable resolution (no 1600x8000 portraits or anything). Feel free to post wireframes and textures...

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by Dango77

17-08-2009|11:52 PM

Replies: 19

Sticky: Egg Challenge Prize

The Art of Brave, looks really nice! http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Mz0nNTIsL._SS400_.jpg

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by Nilla

04-07-2012|10:37 AM

Replies: 0

Sticky: Final Challenge Entries

Please post your final entries for the flying challenge here before the end of April 15th. Cheers and good luck, Nilla

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by Nilla

17-04-2012|06:33 PM

Replies: 5

Sticky: New Challenge - Things that fly | Page: 1 2

Time for a new challenge, the theme this time is things that fly so it can be mechanical flying machines or any other things found in the sky....

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by Nilla

07-03-2012|01:19 PM

Replies: 16

Sticky: December Robot Challenge - Final Entries | Page: 1 2

Please add your finals for the robot challenge here before the end of January 12th, add as many images as you like and a link to the WIP thread,...

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by Nilla

17-01-2012|01:13 PM

Replies: 22

Sticky: SimplyMaya December Challenge - Robots | Page: 1 2

http://simplymaya.com/images/tutorials/large_images/miscellaneous/robots_challenge One of our instructors on SimplyLightwave said a few months...

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by Nilla

01-01-2012|02:15 PM

Replies: 15

Sticky: Final Entries - My Dream Office Challenge | Page: 1 2

Please post your final entries for the challenge in this thread. We noticed that there's a few things left to do for a lot of you and as we're...

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by puneet.3d

05-10-2011|03:21 PM

Replies: 24

Sticky: New Challenge: My Dream Office $500 First Prize | Page: 1 2

Challenge This time we'd like to see you create your perfect office space complete with gadgets and knick-knacks! It can be something realistic or...

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by Nilla

03-08-2011|08:29 AM

Replies: 18

Sticky: Challenge Winners - My Favorite Toy | Page: 1 2 3 4

So finally, we have the pleasure of announcing the challenge winners at last :) On behalf of SimplyMaya & SimplyLightwave we want to say thank you...

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by jonamar

01-08-2011|01:37 PM

Replies: 52

Sticky: April Challenge - Prize

This month you can win a hardback copy of "The Ballad of Rango". Looks like an excellent book to me, the movie was great :)

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by Nilla

10-04-2011|10:18 AM

Replies: 5

Sticky: March Challenge - Prize

So I thought to post up a prize a bit earlier this month :redface: For March we decided to go with a book from another great movie for the winner -...

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by Jay

09-03-2011|09:39 PM

Replies: 1

Sticky: February Challenge - Prize

The prize for the challenge winner this month will be a book on one of the great movies last year; "The Art of How to Train Your Dragon" :)

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by Dango77

28-02-2011|07:24 AM

Replies: 10

June Challenge - ^^TwEeK^^ - Noobie

I guess im gonna give it a go...:p dont really have a clue what im going to model....but i hope it will look good:D i was gonna do something...

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by ^^TwEeK^^

02-06-2003|10:12 PM

Replies: 1

July Challenge - ^^TwEeK^^ - Noobie | Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

ok...im actually going to finish this month's chanllange.... im moving on the 15th...so i might not be able to use my comp for a week or...

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by M

28-07-2003|11:57 PM

Replies: 93

August Challenge - ^^TwEeK^^ - Noobie | Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Im in for this.....i really hope i will have time to finish this one.... i will be using PLE....hope no one minds the watermarks

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by ^^TwEeK^^

01-09-2003|01:27 PM

Replies: 100

Spaceship Challenge: _afro_man_: Schivas

I have made a concept sketch for the Schivas. This is more of a mothership that uses its EMP to immobilize other ships in order to be pillaged. Then...

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by Chirone

20-04-2009|09:20 PM

Replies: 3

Medieval Ages - -<{ JB }>- | Page: 1 2 3 4 5

ok, here's my first sketches. I will be modelling a sword, and I'm going to place it on a grassy hill overlooking a forked path with a figure...

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by subnurbs

03-02-2003|06:06 PM

Replies: 71

May - Norm - master mind | Page: 1 2

Here it goes my first challenge!!! I'm using Maya for about half year a focusing more on modeling. My idea is to create a Terminator-Pirate. I...

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by Techi

15-05-2004|01:57 PM

Replies: 23

Sept/Oct Norm master_mind

I'm in :) I've decided to make a character from Final Fantasy 6. His name is Gau and it's boy raised by animals. I'll try to find some reference...

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by -=master_mind=-

10-09-2005|09:37 PM

Replies: 0

Medieval Ages - morpher

Hi! I will try to create a dwarf for this competion- my inspiration is the Dragonlance saga (for all you ADND gamers :D).

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by Garry1953

07-01-2003|08:02 PM

Replies: 4

May Challenge - morpher - Noobie

Hi! I just have a simple question: Do I have to model me or can I also model a friend of mine? Anyway, I'll take part in that challenge:D

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by .:morpher:.

20-05-2003|12:17 PM

Replies: 1

June Challenge - [icarus_uk] - N00bie | Page: 1 2

Well Witchy is forcing me to enter this one as its somthing I might be able to do, (Im not to good at the organic things). So we shall see how it...

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by Kevin

01-07-2003|02:34 PM

Replies: 27

Oct/Nov - 13uRneR - NOOB

new idea read on! (edit)

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by Pony

08-10-2004|03:28 AM

Replies: 9

Dec/Jan - Norm - 13uRneR | Page: 1 2 3

im going to make a castle courtyard and maybe a sword in a stone in it somewhere, concept art soon to come, (I actually made this example for the...

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by AlphaFlyte

03-01-2005|05:48 AM

Replies: 44

Dec/Jan/Feb - Norm - 13uRneR | Page: 1 2

sorry bout the inactivity, ever had a long slump of lazyness, and then get over worked?!? but im back in action, and fixed my screen brightness...

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by Megaman

17-02-2005|06:22 AM

Replies: 15

Mar/Apr -Norm- 13uRneR

Didn't anyone tell you? The egyptians had robots that built the pyramids! (or atleast They will when im done :p)

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by Pony

23-03-2005|11:44 PM

Replies: 7

july/aug - Norm - 13uRneR

alright time for another norm entry. now that Im done highschool I have more time! time to make an evil slug type creature ready to rip you to...

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by 13uRneR

05-07-2005|02:01 AM

Replies: 0

Jan / Feb -Norm- 13uRneR

Ok, so ive decided to enter, I got all exited and modeled a wole body yesterday, and today i started the face Im going to make me! :) Im...

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by jramauri

09-01-2006|11:09 AM

Replies: 9

May / June - Norm - 13uRneR | Page: 1 2

I havnt had much time for anything lately, but i will attempt to make this work... ive only managed to finish about 1 chalenge >.< anyway, i think...

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by 13uRneR

16-06-2006|12:41 AM

Replies: 17

July/August - Norm - 13uRneR

Shy Roll.... hein?!? i was tempted to do it again, but like you said mike, ill take the first one :P now to think of an idea...

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by 13uRneR

03-07-2006|10:57 PM

Replies: 2

Nov/Dec - Norm - 1Stuffy

Cool idea for a challenge. I'm going to model an old style gas pump. Already found some pictures for ideas. More to follow soon. Steffen

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by joed8349

16-11-2005|09:17 PM

Replies: 4

August Challenge - 3Demon - Noobie | Page: 1 2 3 4

Hello everyone, I just recently got into using Maya and so far I'm loving it. I haven't modelled a single thing in it yet but hopefully this site...

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by Witchy

31-08-2003|07:40 PM

Replies: 46

March / April - 3Demon - Normal

It's been the longest time since I've done a challenge here so I'm back. I'll be doing a high res, cinematic like scene.....Hopefully I can leave...

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by dirack

04-03-2004|12:39 PM

Replies: 10

May - Normal - 3Demon

ARGH!!! Translation: This is the base of what I'm going to use for my pirate, it'll probably change quite a lot in the end Here's my image I...

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by 3Demon

17-05-2004|09:30 AM

Replies: 8

June - NORMAL - 3Demon | Page: 1 2 3

I thought I never finish these so I'm going to this month.... with something quite cool. Therefore I choose the BALROG. Hopefully I can do it...

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by 3Demon

15-06-2004|12:57 AM

Replies: 35

JULY - NoRmAl - 3DeMoN

I'll leave it to your imagination for now ;)

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by Kumar

25-07-2004|04:37 PM

Replies: 8

AUG/SEPT - NORMAL - 3DEMON | Page: 1 2 3 4 5

Here is something I drew 2 minutes ago...... enjoy. I've got an idea for my crazy creature and I'll throw it up tonight. Pony has challenged me to...

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by 3Demon

01-10-2004|09:16 AM

Replies: 73

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