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.
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haha, ever heard of the phrase "jack of all trades"?this as far as I am willing to go with it.
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I think I fall into that one Dom...............davehaha, ever heard of the phrase "jack of all trades"?
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haha, me too.I think I fall into that one Dom...............dave
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Yea, been there and done that. I have gotten the term "Jack of all Trades" quite a bit in my young career. I consider myself fortunate to be in the career that I enjoy and the ability to employ the many opportunities that I am presented with. I can tell you everything from the creation and application of prosthetics and base matches on makeup to the method of optical printing. I am willing to bet none of you have even done optical printing and most of you are almost ten years my elders.haha, ever heard of the phrase "jack of all trades"?
Fact is I love this stuff and make it a habit to learn and digest everything that I can. Whether it be useful as in optical-based physics to the completely useless optical printing. But I respect the past and understand the many ways to do the same thing. That is why I don't bash a method someone uses and let it stand at "different strokes for different folks." At the end of the day your life and how you enjoy it is all that matters. But don't sell yourself short and think "You Can't Do It" simply because someone else has. You go far in this life once you realize that everything has already been done before and you simply need to mimic until the piece becomes personal. Those who think they will create something new and revolutionary end up creating nothing in the end...
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Nice Scorpion BTW
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UPDATE: About 20 minutes of progress after coming back from a delicious BBQ lunch. Man I love pulled pork, almost better than, nevermind not better than that....
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Yea, been there and done that. I have gotten the term "Jack of all Trades" quite a bit in my young career. I consider myself fortunate to be in the career that I enjoy and the ability to employ the many opportunities that I am presented with. I can tell you everything from the creation and application of prosthetics and base matches on makeup to the method of optical printing. I am willing to bet none of you have even done optical printing and most of you are almost ten years my elders.
Fact is I love this stuff and make it a habit to learn and digest everything that I can. Whether it be useful as in optical-based physics to the completely useless optical printing. But I respect the past and understand the many ways to do the same thing. That is why I don't bash a method someone uses and let it stand at "different strokes for different folks." At the end of the day your life and how you enjoy it is all that matters. But don't sell yourself short and think "You Can't Do It" simply because someone else has. You go far in this life once you realize that everything has already been done before and you simply need to mimic until the piece becomes personal. Those who think they will create something new and revolutionary end up creating nothing in the end...
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Should be interesting when done. Kind of didn't do the whole symmetrical thing which is gonna kick me in the nuts as far as rigging but when the sculpt is done I will just repos the head and do a smart resym to get the buildable rig. More work but the pose is fun to do and I feed off of looking into the beasts eyes over a dead staunch stare. Not as good as the Druids wolf though....To early to really crit at the mo but look forward to seeing your progress in the morning matey. I would not class you as a jack of all trades master of none, you were well on the way to becoming a master of one but got bored of it, I would kill to of worked with some of the people you have.
Really having fun with this app. Learn something new every day. But in the end you use the same tools 90% of the time. ZSpheres get me there anyways. Those things are highly underused and this new dynamesh thing is gonna change it but I believe the ZSphere method is still the way to go to lock down proportions and perspective poses.
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The Zsphere method is pretty good once you get your head around what they are doing and if positioned in the right way and converted to the adaptive skin you can get proper edgeloops in the topo without too much trouble at all mate....its easy. they actually have hidden handles too for manipulating them etc, so more to them than meets the eye than just drawing them out one after the other. Plenty of vids on you tube if you look
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I've still yet to delve deeper into Z4r2, (sounds like a*******star wars droid). Its strange seeing how far its come, as Ive had it since version 2.
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