How would I go about checking / fixing that? Thanks for the quick reply. Are you not doing your little comic strips anymore?

I have the Introducing Maya 8: 3d for Begginers books and I am following along with the projects in it. However I have noticed that when I make an object say the poly cylinder for the locomotive and...

When I make a simple polygon cube everything is fine. After I have made it and adjust it height and width subdivisions it goes crazy. The verts end up everywhere. Anyone know why this happens?

OK so I know that references for cars, etc. can often be blueprints but are there any such things for anime characters? I was looking for some on ed elric but I can only find pics of him in odd poses...

Happymatt27 has put together some good tutorials on hair and such. Here (http://www.happymat27.co.uk/Hair%20and%20Fur/mini%20site.swf) Hope he doesn't mind me promo'ing his site, but I thought it was...

If you are a student ( doesn't matter for what you are getting a degree) then there are other acedemic sites that offer complete for a lot cheaper (hundreds vs. thousands). if anyone knows what these...

maybe you are looking for the smooth proxy? It is in effect a lattice having your less dense model in see through, and a smoothed version solid underneath so you can see what it looks like in a...

how do you remove a smooth proxy without removing the changes made to the model?

I know this is asked all the time... and I did search I just don't know exactly what to search for... how did you do the blue light and make it look claylike?

Will be interesting to see what it looks like when you have finished.

p.s. I fought the war.... Marines all the way ;)