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maya subdivision modelling a luger p08

By lesterbanks | Published: July 21, 2010
Sebastian Kim shows how to create a Luger by using subdivision surfaces in Autodesk Maya. “Hard surface subdivision modeling can be a difficult concept to understand, however as it has become such a big part of today’s production environment, learning it has become much more of a necessity. Using the basic polygonal toolset, this 2-day, [...]
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maya 2011 bezier curves

By lesterbanks | Published: July 14, 2010
Michael Hurwicz demonstrates an introduction to Bezier curves in Autodesk Maya 2011, showing the details of creating curves, handles, and the way to close beziers as well.
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maya duplicate along curve script

By lesterbanks | Published: July 7, 2010
nilesh jadhav reminds us all of his very useful script for Autodesk Maya that will let you duplicate along a curve. He developed this script to duplicate or instance objects along the curve – using this this you can populate the objects pretty quickly. This is by no means a new or updated script, however, [...]
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procedural modeling with mel scripts in maya

By lesterbanks | Published: June 17, 2010
Ed Whetstoneon returns with part two of his tutorial, Procedural Modeling with MEL Scripts in Maya – Day 2, an introduction to using external MEL files and procedures, functions, loops, and scripted interaction within the Maya workspace. We’ll be going over basic coding practices, and putting together a nifty geometric object that would be very difficult [...]
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modeling a detailed tire tread maya tutorial

By lesterbanks | Published: June 12, 2010
Stephan (Pixelbahn) shows how you can model a high polygon tire tread in Maya… it’s 5 videos long goin’ from poly modeling over a simple UV layout and finally taking a bump map to put it on the tire.
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modeling a polygon wheel rim maya tutorial

By lesterbanks | Published: May 26, 2010
In this tutorial Stephan (Pixelbahn) shows how you can create a polygon rim from start to finish in Maya. The whole project is split into 10 videos… starting with simple polygon modeling techniques going over to uv layout, texturing and finally rendering with mental ray.
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maya modeling for animation part 3

By lesterbanks | Published: May 22, 2010
Not sure what happened to part 2… Zeth Willie?! maya modeling for animation part 3 on Vimeo.
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maya modeling for animation, part 1

By lesterbanks | Published: May 21, 2010
Zeth Willie with a really great overview of modeling in autodesk maya with consideration for animation. This is part 1 of a 3 part video about modeling chars and props, mostly covering the basics of how/why you would approach modeling things using edge loops, symmetry, etc. Modeling for Animation – part 1 from zeth willie [...]
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maya procedural modeling with mel script

By lesterbanks | Published: May 11, 2010
The mighty Ed Whetstone with his tutorial on diving into procedural modeling with autodesk maya, and he aught to know as the author of Kludge city, a script that procedurally creates sky scrapers. “This tutorial introduces the exciting possibilities for modeling using Maya’s MEL scripting language. In this first part, we will learn the basics of [...]
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maya stylized character modeling tutorial part 8, cleaning up

By lesterbanks | Published: May 6, 2010
Adam Dewhirst continues with the last of the maya modeling tutorial where he creates a stylized characters head this time showing us how to clean up the model for final. Turned out great! Adam Dewhirst Tutorial – Head modelling – part 8 – clean up from adam dewhirst on Vimeo.
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