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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I remember you also started a robot along time ago that kinda reminded me of those little junkshop droids in SW: Phantom Menace....had 3 headlights in the forehead area. Did you ever finish? I still want to pick your brain sometime about the headlight shaders.
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I won't be on for a while today, I have to go the the paint fixed on my truck (witch got messed up when I got it muddy for the Ranger project, grrr...)
Let me know what you guys think!!
btw, how fast is the DL rate>??
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Other than holding the blend-destruction on your jeep, I think it ROCKS!
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1 interruption yesterday..
2 then i stopped the pc to be able to sleep...
this morning i wasnt able even to start...
then it was downloadeable again, but it interrupted when there was only 1 min left...
tried it again and the light went off for a minute at mid dischage...
lets see if i manage it now... its personal...
14 min left 20Kbps...
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well what can i say... regarding your hard surfaces im a fanboy man:headbang: :bow:
i have to agree with mike, bad placed alien
it would have been better to put it on the middle, the tank jeep the frist, and the JP jeep the last one with added time after the crash. You know, like: opening bang, then they look things with better eyes, and then you lauch your last big bang that lets them wanting to give you money...
The music should match intensities whith whatever you want to hilight... it has subconscious effects...
After all it was worth the pain downloading your demo
I bet youll get the job 95%prob
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Hey Brian, is this your first reel? What you want to do is ALWAYS put your best stuff up front. I agree about the alien... Scrap it. It just doesn't stand up to the rest of the reel. And also about holding longer on the truck when it gets smashed. Either that or do a slow-mo of it getting crushed. (btw - how'd you do that?)
As for everything else, looks good. I would hold on the stills at least 3 seconds, but not necessary. They can always pause the tape.
Good luck, I'm sure you'll get hired with this reel.
BTW - you still never told us what company is hiring you. :p
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Um. I will let you guys know where in a little bit. but its no where to big.. not yet anyways, but it is a foot in the door, and I get to work on film projects, so its really good for me... Also, My matchmoving reel is so much better than this modeling demoreel. I will try to post a version of that for you guys this weekend, its much better, I have been working on that for quite a while now. The modeling demo wasn't really made for the position that I was applying for, they just wanted to see what else I could do beside my matchmoving. I guess thats why I didn't really worruy about the alien, just because I didn't think that this reel would hurt my chances, if I have any anyways. If I were to be applying for a modeling position somewhere, I would put alot more effort into it. Talk to you later, thanks again for all your comments, I plan on fixing all of those things soon
Also how did I do that?? that particular crash took about 131 blendshapes, controlled by SDK. Yeah, thats alot, but i had over 200 more, to simulate side and a front crash. I made these, because I wanted to do a camera track with the jeep getting into an accident, Like hitting a tree head on, or something falling on it.
So, it would be really easy to exagerate it, make it slow mo, and focus more on it... Witch I think I will do now
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