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# 1 30-05-2012 , 02:10 AM

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Hi. I recently bought the 2012 suite with Maya, Mudbox, Motion Builder, and Soft Image. I am learning on my own with the help of tutorials and I've bought a few books on modeling, rendering and etc. I seem to still have a lot of issues modeling though. For instance nurbs, well let's just say I won't be using them anytime soon. I can loft a surface (curve) and convert to poly's but from their it gets ugly.lol.

I was considering purchasing the helicopter tutorial from the tutorials area on here. I like that it seems to go into depth on a lot of key points and especially modeling the AH-64, since I was trying to model a Blackhawk and I threw in the towel on it, I tried to use nurbs on the fuselage, wow did that get ugly. Have any of you done the Ah-64 tutorial by chance and was it as good as it seems to be?

If I do decide to go with it is their a good nurbs tutorial that is recommended fir absolute beginners?

Thanks.

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# 2 30-05-2012 , 07:32 AM

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The Apache Tutorial is excellent and one of the best on this site.
If you have no Maya experience at all i would suggest you download the free tutorials here or work through the Maya help file tutorials to at least get acquainted with the Maya tool set first though.

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# 3 30-05-2012 , 07:43 AM

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Woah. Jsprogg still exists!

I think the Cartoon Dog tut was nurbs, not sure if it's still here, but it was for total beginners. Would be a good place to start

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# 4 30-05-2012 , 08:43 AM

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Get this

https://simplymaya.com/autodesk-maya-...=193&sub_cat=2

I can not recommend it highly enough The instructor is a great guy and really knows his stuff.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3923129/

That's his imdb page, the tutorial is new uses maya 2011 and is great for someone just starting out.

I'm bias as it's my site but if you do a search you'll find plenty of other people that will tell you the same thing

Best of luck with Maya.
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# 5 30-05-2012 , 09:37 AM

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welcome to maya.

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# 6 30-05-2012 , 12:17 PM

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Thank you. I do not have any expirence besides what I have taught myself. I was trying to load a render image from a few of my projects of mine but again, I guess that's something else I'll have to figure out in time..lol. I like the Surfing Alien tuturial, that will definetly help me with nurbs, I hope.

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# 7 30-05-2012 , 04:51 PM

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The surfing alien tut uses a poly workflow, well so far I haven't him use NURBS in there. Welcome to the world of Maya!

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# 8 30-05-2012 , 07:46 PM

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The surfing alien tut uses a poly workflow, well so far I haven't him use NURBS in there. Welcome to the world of Maya!

Originally Posted by GecT

Ya, I just noticed that. Oh well, I bought it and started downloading the files. Hopefully I'll get a chance to work on it tonight.