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Complex UV Layout in Maya

Over the last couple of years UV layout in Maya has changed for the better. In this course we're going to be taking a look at some of those changes as we UV map an entire character

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# 1 11-07-2012 , 05:07 PM

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Egg Challenge - Jake

I'll have a "Crack" at this challenge.

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# 2 12-07-2012 , 08:10 AM

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I'll have a "Crack" at this challenge.

Originally Posted by joverall22

Hold's... back... overwhelming... urge... to... smack...

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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# 3 12-07-2012 , 01:10 PM

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LOL. I thought it was cute. As long as you have fun.

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# 4 12-07-2012 , 03:14 PM

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Hold's... back... overwhelming... urge... to... smack...

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Lol Sorry ND for the cheesy pun. I was just too "Eggcited" not to use it. user added image

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# 5 12-07-2012 , 03:18 PM

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Lol Sorry ND for the cheesy pun. I was just too "Eggcited" not to use it.

Originally Posted by joverall22

*Reaches for the ban button... user added image

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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# 6 12-07-2012 , 08:16 PM

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WIP 1

Here is my first shot

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# 7 12-07-2012 , 09:43 PM

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So here is a question for my friends here at SM, do you usually focus on texture mapping your objects or lighting your scene first?

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# 8 13-07-2012 , 01:27 AM

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So here is a question for my friends here at SM, do you usually focus on texture mapping your objects or lighting your scene first?

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Textures first.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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Ditto, textures.

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Okay so textures it is.

I kinda thought so, but I often see beautiful renders of plan white / gray objects Like that Inner Cathedral that Toddster did here

https://simplymaya.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37677

which clearly has Lighting effects, and is amazingly well done I might add, that I was curios if I had been doing things backwards.

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Of course after modeling something(especially like that), you just have to see it rendered from a couple angles, you just have to! And the physical sky can get you there in one click but seriously tuning the lighting, nah, simply because a lighting setup that looks nice with a white matte shader daubed over everything might look totally underwhelming after textures. Well that's how I look at it.

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# 12 16-07-2012 , 05:35 PM

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Yeah I suppose that does make sense

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i curse you joverall22 user added image

,, that egg slicy thingy was exactly what i was gonna make for this challenge, but have like an egg in a superman cape defending the other eggs from the slicer. lmao. hsall have to rethink user added image

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# 14 23-07-2012 , 09:59 PM

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Lol

@chilledoutredhead - yeah i figured that the egg slicer would be used by a few people but I thought I would run with it anyways. Your SuperMan idea sounds cool enough start a thread and post some wips user added image

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# 15 23-07-2012 , 10:04 PM

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Duh duh duhn - The Eggsecutioner

Well ND Hopefully you can handle one more pun as the title of my scene.

I still have a lot of texturing and lighting to take care of but I figured I would post up my next WIP for some critique and tips I would like my scene to have a much more realistic feel than it currently does so if anyone has any ideas throw them out there for me user added image

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