99 Red Balloons

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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# 1 24-06-2006 , 05:39 PM

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Okay this is going to be my largest project yet. I plan on making a music video of "99 Red Ballons" by Goldfinger. Here is my story board of the basic layout of the video

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# 2 24-06-2006 , 05:42 PM

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Started last night and decided to make the planes first just because its something nice and easy to model.

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# 3 24-06-2006 , 07:08 PM

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Made the pilot
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# 4 25-06-2006 , 08:57 PM

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nice idea you have, I don't want to sound patronizing but I think your storyboard would need a little more work e.g. think about how you place the camera and how you frame your shots. It all seems a little unclear to me. And I'd suggest to make a simple animatic first. Just cut out the stuff from your storyboard and start to try out how movement and transitions between shots work. Especially you can work out timing. A well done animatic can safe you so much work in the end. -Just some thoughts.

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# 5 25-06-2006 , 09:37 PM

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if you want to learn some profesional concept drawings and the like tutorials, i stongly recommend thegnomonworkshop.com for that.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice!!

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# 6 25-06-2006 , 11:12 PM

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lol it is a very rough story board I made in 2 mins just to get some ideas out. I'll look into making a animatic, but right now I think I'll model everything first.

Here's one of the army dudes that will be used as a crowd.
I still need to make boots for him though as the current ones just won't do.

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# 7 27-06-2006 , 12:52 AM

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The Officer

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# 8 27-06-2006 , 08:11 PM

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Finally dressed my very first charcter, who I will use as the "main character".

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# 9 27-06-2006 , 09:29 PM

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My first female model, pre-cloths might just model hair for faster rendering

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# 10 28-06-2006 , 04:15 PM

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Girl with hair modeled

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# 11 28-06-2006 , 07:52 PM

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When I try to render this image maya crashes, I have all my settings on low, about 80,000 polys in this particular view. Please help!

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