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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18-04-2011
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I did a texture projection yesterday as a test and I would say its around 85 percent there right now overall, now comes the harder part......
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18-04-2011
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How do you work from here, are you looking at ref shot not set up in maya from different angle?.............dave
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18-04-2011
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yes and no mate, I'll just keep adding more cameras from different angles I think its around 12 right now and growing LOL, but I will jump out of the camera to eyeball it from either the scene or from the windows picture viewer.
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24-04-2011
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tweaking eye area now, need to have slightly higher brows where they meet lids
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27-04-2011
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the mesh is around 6k polys now (if that)
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28-04-2011
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sure...
its not really voodoo its just like setting camera planes in orthographic views but instead its just another 'persp' camera that needs adjusting to fit in line with the mesh.
Basically keep the mesh at 0,0,0, then add the cameras as needed then align them as best you can, using the eyes, nose and mouth as a 'lock' down point (bear in mind they wont fit exactly but use them as your main guide). Add the nurbs curves to the same areas or more on the mesh this time, then in your camera views shape the curves as best you can to the images. The hardest part will be the eyes and possibly the mouth because movement and expression. Ive tried to find as many neutral pics as possible and all the same age.
Her face became more defined in the jaw area as she got older (30s to 40s), and her lips seem a little thinner too. I know she died of cancer at the age of 64 in the early nineties but these changes in her features were from way earlier in here career and not from the affects from the awful illness
anyway on a lighter note have attached two images for you mate
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28-04-2011
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a standard lens doesnt really exist so to speak, its all shot dependant that dictates it at the end of the day.
sorry mate I cant be more specific
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28-04-2011
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John, cool mate, yeah we had matchmovers do that for us at Cinesite. Orthographic views are a bit of a lottery though, they always have been as you cant really get stuff side on or front on with a small bit of perspective coming into an image. Unfortunately I dont have PFtrack or know how to use it otherwise I'd do that too
Also to find the focal length, you can actually go to an images 'properties' and usually it will tell you there to
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