Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold
This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i
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Another angle...
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Thanks Michael Mckinley!!!
Thanks again Michael for such an incredible and insightful tut!Russell
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select your poly object, go to: display/polygon components/normals
This will show the normals for your faces and if any faces are pointed in towards your normal (which might be the case with the back section that won't join smooth, then slect the offending faces, and go to: edit polygons/normals/reverse.
Joining verts should work, for the middle part of the body, make sure all of your verts are align along the center axis. To do this select each vert one at a time, hit "w" for the move tool, then hold down "x" to snap to grid, then select the red translation arrow and move the vert so you see it snap to the center axis, if they are off even a small amount you won't get the mirror looking right.
For your merging vertices problems, when you want to merge to vertices, just make sure one of them was moved to the other by snapping to vertices ("v" key) and make sure that the options for your merge verts has a distance of .0001. I hope this helps. Also I didn't realize you were making a cartoon style character. Good luck.
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I'm pleased with what I have so far and now all I need is to learn how to model the head. Any idea how you make a mouth hole? BTW, Crae has a big mouth with big, Mick Jagger lips. Do I make the hole first, then his lips then merge them or do I make it one big mouth, no merging? Anywho, here it is. Picture number one...Russell
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Trying to Give Mick and Steven a Run For Their Money
) What I want to do is give this guy big fat kissable lips but I'm not quite sure how to do so. I've used the Create Polygon Tool and made a side outline of the shape of the lips but after that, I'm stumped. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance! Russell
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You might wanna check out a head tutorial. theres a few decent ones out there. Basically you wanna be very careful of "edge loops" lines the run around the mesh that make faces look beleiveable and deform correctly corresponding to muscles in our own real faces.
Good luck, don't get too frustrated, heads can seem very hard. But in the words of Buzz Lightyear, "Never give up, Never surrender" and "Too infinity and beyond!!"
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Sorry for the delay in getting back to this thread. Been a little busy. The shoulder looks closer! It looks like it should at least deform without too much problem.
One thing to try is to refrain from having straight edges. What I mean is in your arm, aside from those 3 shoulder loops, the rest of the edge loops are straight in the Y axis. You might find it better to follow the contours of the arm a bit more.
Also, I think you're still starting with too much geometry. But that's something that will be learned more with practice. I'd say keep on going with this one, and then use what you learn for the next one. That's the most productive thing rather than spending all your time trying to fix a single model.
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Is there an easy way to clean this guy up without wasting too much time?Russell
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