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 complex objects.
# 1 20-08-2010 , 11:09 PM
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Been busy as have loads of models I need to create at the moment so my wolf project is gonna have to go on hold for a couple of weeks. Thought I would share one of the models that I am currently working on though.

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# 7 21-08-2010 , 06:11 AM
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Impressive mate!!! Like the look in the first shot...gives it a surreal kinda look. Are you going to texture/paint?

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# 8 21-08-2010 , 07:03 AM
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Cheers bullet, Yeah am gonna texture it as soon as I get headus to layout the uv's. I used to use roadkill but no free version for the mac so am gonna purchase headus in the next couple of weeks. Have already uv'd the outer shell as I find hard surface stuff much easier, although there are a lot of characters I have made so I will be using headus mainly for that.

Gonna start the gun mount and underside next week.


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# 9 21-08-2010 , 07:21 AM
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Wow characters too!!! woo hoo cant wait to see this mate!!! I assumne a battle scene or similar??

mmmmm gun mount...drool LOL

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Just a thought...instead of the usual desert scene try an urban or even forest?? might be a change


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# 10 21-08-2010 , 07:37 AM
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Unfortunately I cannot share to much of this as it is work related. I am able to show the hummer as they can be seen anywhere. Unfortunately it is gonna be a desert scene as that is what is required. I have attached one of the early images I created which shows a load of primitives where I have now put a small town although the scene now has a lot more depth.

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# 11 21-08-2010 , 08:21 AM
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bummer for the hummer LOL oh well it al does look neato man....good luck with it for work..LOL I thought it may have been private...never mind...texture time will tell on the beast!

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# 12 21-08-2010 , 09:14 AM
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Nice work leonlabyk, could you do a shot of the wheels...........thanks dave




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# 13 21-08-2010 , 10:23 AM
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That's some astonishing work man O_O

Is the desert landscape all done in maya?

# 14 21-08-2010 , 10:55 AM
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Cheers Guys, The landscape is done in vue although I will be setting up a scene in vue of yellowstone park in my wolf wip that is in the wip section. Should help show how I use maya, zbrush and vue together in my workflow and how to create landscapes from google map refs relatively quickly. Hope to be getting back to that in a couple of weeks and hope that some of the stuff I post may be of use.

I will get some pics of the tires up later today tomorrow although I may redo them as they did not come out great and need to get some more detail in there.

This tutorial pretty much shows how to do it though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md8E3mm8ge0

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# 15 21-08-2010 , 11:23 AM
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leon, where did you learn how to use vue? i have the 3d artist user guide and another book off amazon. have you found any good reference places other than cornucopia and geek at play etc?

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