Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 1
This course will look at the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. We'll look at what makes a good model in Maya and why objects are modeled in the way they are.
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PFX rain is not the best I know, but it looks a lot like light ink lines which fits well with the style of the peice.
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to get the images here, I put a grayscale image of a scan of an oil-painted solid color, to capture the richness of real traditional media. ( I got this technique from Yves Dalbiez). I then made the ramps color transition from blue at the bottom to a narrow red strip to a light yellow-orange. The result is very similar to the usual style of ramp cartoon shading, except with texture (from the grayscale image) that makes it look like it was actually painted. This looks really cool when animated; you know it can't be really painted because of the complexity, but it looks like it is (if done right). I think this might just be that not-quite realistic not-quite-handmade appearance I have been searching for.
The UV maps are nowhere near complete, I know there are messy transitions and seams all over the place. I'll fix those later.
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I'm mapping the paint texture (which is grayscale) at a bright setting as the color gain of the ramp, and a nearly black version of the texture as the color offset. I'm also sticking it in the diffuse channel of the shading ref preveously mentioned, which is the main component of this technique.
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Nailed: yeah, it's by far the best available for maya, and the price is absolutely phenomenal ($90). I guess they didn't feel they could charge very much for something that didn't actually have it's own drawing system thing (it just uses maya PFX for the lines, a great idea because you can make it look sketchy by using tubes). It's edge-detection is where it really shines, you can even place locators ( a kind of influence-object thing) to control any specefied line attribute (thickness, accuraccy, density, etc) in a certain area of your model. You can even harden the normals on an edge to make a line there.
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