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 just got back from an extended work trip and wanted to both say hello and get back into organic modelling.
I'm getting better at making humans, but nowhere near where I want to be. So I'm going though all four Creating digital human exercises from Digital Tutors (again) to both practice and build up confidence to hopefully remove the crutches of having to look at a tutorial every seven seconds because I feel like I've irrevocably messed up my mesh.
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"A Darkness at Sethanon", a book I aspire to model some of the charcters and scenes
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I found some awesome tutorials by a man named Christoph Desse (hope I spelled that right) where his results looked too good to not try and learn how he did it.
Bullet: I'm kind of on the fence about toon shading but quickly becoming a convert. Especially with my skill level toon shading helps cover up the fact that the models aren't really all that great. As I get better with organics I can see myself leaning towards more photoreal.
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Another quick update as I've reached a good posting point with getting the hands arm area done.
EDIT: Much better now! Thanks Bullet
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I'm looking to take this character all the way from Base/to detailing/ Mapping/ to texturing as well as rigging and using him for learning animation so this project is going to be a long process. This guy is a character concept I've been playing around with for some time tentatively named Darian Raven.
I have a couple of questions for the board members (sort of a look and plan ahead)
Since the characters head is attached to the whole body, when I start doing blendshapes for the head do I have to copy the entire body or can I duplicate the character then delete all but the head and reshape it to do the blendshape?
Does anyone know of any good tutorials for hand painting textures in photoshop for skin. (I currently don't have enough skin texture references to make a photoreal version yet)
Finally when it comes to using motionbuilder do you have to complete the rig and bind and paint weights before you import it in?
Any info to point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again for the positive feedback!
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If I could give you a small nugget of advice it would be to use the lighting to your advantage for the modelling phase - try using a spotlight of directional to check for imperfections. the model from what I can see through the washout looks okay but at this stage treat it as a model in progress, that whole environment light is a real waste of time - are they doing that on the d****** t***** exercise itself??
I think Ill have to get a tute of this type done for the site at some stage - thats not from someone else's site lol
keep up the good work though - and a wire of two to see what the deal is there as well would be nice dude
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