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# 9 13-03-2008 , 10:28 PM
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Tutorials fro Maya 5.0

Alexander-


Yes lets see if you have something that I can but from you if you are willing to see too me.

I thank all of your comments regarding my frustrations here.

Jay-

I also here you as well. Ok check this out,, Ok so I started modeling a head of a person with the image plans in place, right.

Ok so when making certain moves to continue making poly's the picture would warp on me. I posted this on one of the Maya sites and I got no help at all.

I think it was a tutorial that I purchased from The GnomonWorkshop, one of there instructors, that I was trying to follow. but got lost when this happened.

So I finally got someone to answer to me regarding what might be wrong. What he said was there were patches that were made during the time that I put Maya 5.0 down that I missed out on, and it might be too late for me to find them so I just gave up on it. And purchase Modo, LightWave, and ZBrush
to find a simple solution to help me in my workflow.

The problem has been, when I would go too the site to find training materials for each of the software packages, I did not get very far.

But some how in the back of my mind Maya, would also way come up because one I spent a ton of money on it, and two - I would always run across a model out there the the user used Maya, so this is why I am back to Maya.

I will not give up on the others, I will try and integrate them as well into my workflow. You see this 3D Thing is me learning it on my own, without being in a class room. I work in the Cartoon Industry as a 2d artist, but wanted to create toys out of some of my designs. To create a reason that justify including it into our work environment. So far I am not able to make a move because of this learning curve that I am stuck in.

The tutorials that I am kinda looking for are all about cartoons, because cartoons is what I draw all day long.

The other issue is that I am on a Mac, and most people that I have run across work on a PC, so they would not help and said things like: Maya works better on a PC, without knowing how it work on the Mac.

I wish that most instructors out there would address both platforms when creating training materials for purchase, I mean these days both platforms are heavily used in the creative world these days.

One more thing and that is most of the tutorials that I get all excited about, I would start it and all of a sudden the instructor go and call up a plug-in that I can not find. He would mention a site but the site, when i go too it does not have what was mention at all. So I wrote too the place where I purchase the friggin DVD, and just ask "Is it possible for you guys to please!!! have the instructor to add the plug-ins" in a separate folder please.


So they would not listen they would make up reason why they can not promise that and I would get upset and move on to the another software, which was not the right thing to do, now keep in-mind that all of this was under the Maya thing so there were other reason why I put it down, and moved on.

So now I am back, but this will be my last stop as for Maya, through SimplyMaya.com

You guys seem to be more open to giving good advice.

So too the rest of you, thanks, but are there any patches that Alias made that I can go and find that I may have missed out on, that one of you may know about?

Was I right to come back too Maya, yes it was I think.

Thanks,

Savnac:bow: