Maya for 3D Printing - Rapid Prototyping
In this course we're going to look at something a little different, creating technically accurate 3D printed parts.
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btw, the position shown in the other post is gonna change to a different one... it's too hard to figure out where i want his arms to be...
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Originally posted by Chirone
when doing clothes, is it better to model the clothes on the initial davinci pose? or since i dont think im using nCloth would it be best to block the clothes out on the final position?
btw, the position shown in the other post is gonna change to a different one... it's too hard to figure out where i want his arms to be...
Depends on what you want, animation or still
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Well I was away most of this weekend (Friday, and Saturday)
With some friends, and we went to see Hellboy 2 Whoot! It was sweet!
Anyway, I'm just posting to show you guys the image thats given me the inspiration for my piece:
SHEER TERROR
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if you model an expression like that then i'm gonna cry :bow:
as for clothes... i just copied the mesh of my character and deleted particular verticies and binded it to the skeleton then put it into position and edited the ugly result...
editing weights is such a pain...
oh and my laptop cries at the sheer volume of verticies it has to calculate for nCloth... i'll need to get a more powerful machine sometime...
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but then i think you guys have been doing this longer than me so i suppose its only natural to take a while doing something i haven't done before
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the scene is lit up by a spot light from the front.... this will have to change, and so will the materials...
also, need to decide if i'll keep that stick as a stick or make it into his trident, and decide if i'll be showing his wings
if they show they might obscure the trident unless i only add one, once one wing is cool and all...
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No, but really... I'll probably just model a solid base mesh in Maya or Silo, and then import it into ZBrush. To get the facial detail in place, although... If i do it in Silo, I can just do all my sculpting in there... hmm. I'll have to see how it goes.
as for your render. It's a bit too dark to see anything, but what I can see looks good.
Anyway, I'm starting my model tomorrow, So I should (hopefully) have something to post.
Oh, and if you think your computer crap.. Heres the one I work on when I'm at home (80% of the time)
heres it's specs straight from my computers properties: (don't laugh!)
AMD Athlon XP 1800+
1.53 GHz, 512MB of RAM
And my graphics card is a NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
I have 140GB Hard drive.... and to top it off. I'm looking through a 16" MAG screen.
The other Comp (that I don't get use as much) is ALLOT better.
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And for the system specs, you shouldn't complain:
Before I got a new comp (2 days ago) I was using a mac with the following Specs:
300 MHz processor
400something megabytes ram (if you really want to know, its 256 + 64 + 64 + 128)
now it's around the same level as yours...
733 MHz
1 gig ram.
Just don't always say your comp sucks...
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i think i'll just fix the textures for the clothes that were derived from the body in photoshop... although i'd have to come up with a proper solution if i was to use this model properly...
amoeba: is that a mac that doesn't have an intel core?
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thanks for the tip!
will remember that in future
anyway, my mouse batteries are dead so i can't work on anything until its back (i never got used to the mousepad)
anyway, this is the latest render test
wings are an important part of life to me, and its sure hard to get the top part right....
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i accidentally hit the "darker" variation in photoshop twice instead of once...
i'll fix that up sometime, since it just looks off and not grey enough
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