Maya Tutorial : Rigging WIP 2 Spine and Head

Maya Tutorials : Intro to Rigging

Todays tutorial was an introduction to rigging , although this was challenging and took a lengthy amount of time I feel as if I have a learned a lot when it comes to managing joints and how they move.

Maya Tutorials : Intro to Can Snatch & Walking Cycle

Maya Tutorials : Camera Coverage Complete

Maya Tutorials : Pre Viz Intro Continued

**The Camera Coverage tutorial is in 2 parts here since the script included wouldn`t show up in Maya.**

 

Maya Tutorials : Camera Control

 

 

Maya Tutorial : Intro to Texturing

Maya Tutorial : Lighting + Rendering

Maya Tutorials : Alley Way Scene

Maya Tutorials : All Animation Tutorials

Maya Tutorials : One , Two and Three Point Lighting

  

Maya Tutorials : UV Layout Cubes

In this exercise I learned how to use UV mapping and I found it relatively easy to do . I liked creating my own custom textures in Photoshop as it let me add my own style to the cubes. So far this is the only exercise I haven`t had trouble with and I`m glad about that as I think it means I`m learning and getting more used to the software now.

Maya Tutorials : Texturing Robot

Maya Experimentation : Robot Bug

 

 Since I am up to date with my Maya Tutorials , I decided I wanted to experiment with the potential Maya could do. I wasn`t sure where I wanted this creature to go it was more of a `see what the different tools do with different settings and see how it comes out`. I`m happy with how it came out overall considering this is the third time me using Maya.

Maya tutorial : Ray Gun Attempt #2

 

Because I felt as if my first attempt wasn`t up to scratch , in class today I gave it another attempt and I feel as if I have learned a lot through going through the steps one at a time. With help from my tutor I finally figured out why Maya was crashing every time I attempted to add the toon outline , this is because I have to smooth first before adding the outline. Overall I feel like this attempt worked out much better.

Maya Tutorial : Ray Gun

I found this method much easier than the eggcups ,although , when it came to rendering and adding the toon outline my laptop couldn`t handle the process and kept crashing repeatedly whenever I tried,so, I removed the outline to show I have completed the tutorial as best as I could without my laptop constantly crashing,

Maya Tutorial 1 : Eggcups

My first attempt at Maya was quite frustrating , the NURBS was relatively easy as I remembered how to create the eggcup from the lesson ,however, the polygon models I got insanely frustrated with because of the different components and I really struggled with getting the inside hollowed out. In the end I managed to figure it out and although there are faults I may redo them in the future when I have more knowledge of Maya.