I need to learn how to make a sky?
I don't want to just make an image plane and put a sky on it. can anyone help me learn another way maby some tutorial I haven't found. I would love to learn. I have looked everywhere and can't find good info. There is some env sky env sphere or something in the hypershade is that a good way don't know how to do it. Thanks to anyone that helps.

Thanks so much for the post so far its giving me a new perspective in maya.

thanks again lucky for me i'm pretty good with photoshop

Thanks thanks thanks... But I still have a question what is the reason for using a nurb instead of a polygon?