The Apache Helicopter

Maya for 3D Printing - Rapid Prototyping

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# 1 26-10-2006 , 08:39 PM

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I've just finished the modeling of this helicopter from the Kari Brown tutorials, excellent videos, thank you very much, next is texturing.

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# 2 26-10-2006 , 08:39 PM

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Another view.

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# 3 26-10-2006 , 08:48 PM

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Damn....that tut is MAD old. LOL. Looks good tho. user added image

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# 4 26-10-2006 , 09:02 PM

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Thank you very much I-Iybrid!
It is old but still valid and instructive, great tutorials
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# 5 26-10-2006 , 09:04 PM

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Gonna texture it at all? Or just gonna call it finished as is? Oh, and Welcome to SM!

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# 6 26-10-2006 , 09:08 PM

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Thank you very much for the welcome I-Iybrid!
Yes, I am going to texture it all and then do the animation, that is why I bought this tutorial (texturing & animation), I don't know how to layout UV's etc.....so, hopefully I will be able to do the texturing.
Have you done this tut? Any tips you can share with me and all others reading this thread?
I am watching the first texturing video at the moment.

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# 7 26-10-2006 , 10:08 PM

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Actually, I havent watch the tut. I dont have much time to watch tuts. I hope it all comes out good for you. user added image

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# 8 31-10-2006 , 07:04 PM

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Laying the UV's

I have started laying out the UV's using the "Manual Method" as shown by Kari Brown, I am not going to use the Danny script nor "automatic mapping technique".

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# 9 02-11-2006 , 08:56 AM

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Unwrapping is almost done, a lot of work is involved in unwrapping.

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# 10 06-11-2007 , 08:47 AM

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Texturing Done!

Finally, the texturing is done on the Apache gunship.
A lot of work went into this model, I didn't like the UV unwrapping that much but the texturing was fun.
Next is the animation, I hope I don't take that long in doing it.

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