Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2
This course will look in the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. It's aimed at people that have some modeling experience in Maya but are having trouble with
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My goal is to get into medical and scientific animation, so I'm going to work from some medical references to get a realistic skull with some addons. Looking forward to it. Thankfully we have two months, cause this will definitely take me a while.
My scene will take place in a room with just a couple pieces of furniture and you.
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Yeah, that didn't really answer anything did it... haha.
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I'm doing something of a (hopefully medically accurate) skeleton for the main character, plus some addons (ooh more mystery!). I don't think I'll do all 200 odd bones, but most of them will be in my scene.
Humerus:
https://a.imageshack.us/img190/593/humerusf.jpg
Radius and ulna:
https://a.imageshack.us/img267/1164/radulna01.jpg
Lumbar vertebrae:
https://a.imageshack.us/img696/6377/lumarverts01.jpg
Wireframe and UV (that was a pain):
https://a.imageshack.us/img185/7738/lumbarverts02.jpg
My relatively slow and little progress has been somewhat due to the fact that those latter bones have been causing me a bit of soreness, so I don't like sitting at the computer much more than I have to (i.e. work).
I'm realizing how tedious organic modelling can be, so I'm seriously thinking of putting all these into mudbox (don't have z) to get more realistic detail and texture. So we'll see how that goes. I learned that one of the TS3 characters was sculpted in mudbox, so I'm a bit more of a fan now :p
Hope that's enough info to keep you happy for a little bit bullet and dave, haha.
I should say that these are still WIPs, so for those doctors out there that are going to tell me that the vertebrae articulations aren't accurate... I know, I'm working on it.
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No they arent accurate....Doc bullet....bahahaha with ya dave..tee heee.
WTF are those UV's?? I have seen that before...all grids and numbers...if you have time one day, please explain.
Let me know how you go with mudbox, I download Z trial and jeeeezzzzzz it looks a bitch. I wont have time to learn it so my Bull will have to be done the hard way.
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Mudbox is very straightforward from what I know so far, and the navigation is same as maya, so a bit easier to jump into from maya I think. I'll let you know how it goes.
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