autodesk maya, 3d models, modeling, 3d effects
Texture Mapping Assign a Texture to a Polygon – Create a polygonal box: POLYGONS || Create > Polygon Primitives > Cube. Create a Material – Open Hypershade: POLYGON || Window > Rendering Editors > Hypershade – Click on Blinn: HYPERSHADE Window || Maya > Blinn Assign the Material – Select your cube and RMB + […]
Rig Hierarchy Your Outliner should be cleaned and organized. All your elements should be under on master node, which makes placement of your character easy in different scenes. Open your last scene. – 032812_13-Rigging_01.ma Geometry Group – Select all the bound geometry in your scene. Note: It might be easier to select the geometry from […]
IK Handles You will learn about Single Chain IK and Rotate Plane IK. The difference: Single Chain IK handle’s end effector tries to reach the position and orientation of it’s IK handle. Rotate Plane IK handle’s end effector only tries to reach the position of it’s IK handle. Single Chain IK A single Chain IK […]
Sculpting A Surface How to use the Artisan Tool to sculpt a surface. Practice using the Artisan Tool to sculpt the surface on a sphere. Make A Test Sphere – Create a polygonal sphere. – Set it’s construction history in the Channel Box > Inputs > polySphere1 to the following; SubDivision Axis: 60; SubDivision Height: […]
Parent Binding The simplest type of binding is to parent geometry to joints. Parenting geometry to joints is very fast and needs no tweaking, but requires the pieces of a model to be separate. Ex: An arm would be split into an upper part and lower part. There are scenarios where this is appropriate for […]
… Continued Refine The Head Delete The Construction History After all the operations done so far on the model, the Construction history is starting to pile up in the Channel Box. Delete the history of the model and the entire scene. – MAIN || Edit > Delete All by Type > History Insert Edge Loop […]
Maya Architecture Defined by a node based system, known as a dependency graph. Nodes with attributes connected to them Hierarchies and Dependencies Set up your view panels to 2 Panes Side by side – STAGE || Panels > Layouts > 2 Panes Side by Side – Perspective in the first view. Hypergraph in the second. […]
The Workspace Layouts Change your view layouts – STAGE || Panels > Layouts > (Single Pane, Two Panes, etc) View Panels Change the content of your view panel – STAGE || Panels > (Orthographic, Perspective) View Tools Tumble view in Perspective View – Tumble in perspective: ALT + LMB CLICK DRAG – You can tumble […]