Urban Environment Creation Lesson 8

^ At this point, Jeff pulls everyone over to my computer and explains that, well, the Voice is wrong. Hopefully, everyone learned from the mistake I made. The mistake? Doing what the Voice said to do. The solution? Throwing a pity party. Trust me, it's better than throwing something else...the computer, comes to mind...

Modeling the doorway and door.

Urban Environment Creation Lesson 7

Adding architectural detail to a foreground building.

Urban Environment Creation Lesson 6

Detailing the alley surface.

Urban Environment Creation Lesson 5

 ^ Had to move around the 'ground' so that the back alley would work like the video showed.

^ Extruding and extracting. My favorite exes.

Building the alley surface; curb and ground.

Urban Environment Creation Lesson 4

Blocking in the set with simple shapes.

Urban Environment Creation Lessons 1-3

This time I will be making an urban environment. Woohoo. As usual, the first few lessons are of no big importance - all they do is show what the end product will (hopefully) look like and go over a few of the tools that will be used throughout the course.

The version of Maya that is being used by Digital Tutors is Maya 8.5 and not Maya 2012.

Bike Tutorials Lesson 34

Done! (:

Bike Tutorials Lesson 33

All this lesson was about was how to group things and name them. Something I had severe trouble with. Therefore, my bike parts are not named or grouped or sorted in any particular fashion. I tried, believe you me, I tried indeed. BUT things just did not work out.

Bike Tutorials Lesson 32

Bike Tutorials Lesson 31

I cannot get the kickstand to work correctly. I have tried. Trust me. So I am just going to leave it down, even though Justin Marshall (the Voice) has the kickstand up. Why I am doing this? Because my bike is not exactly like Justin Marshall's. ^^ That's why.

Bike Tutorials Lesson 30

Bike Tutorials Lesson 29

Bike Tutorials Lesson 28

I had several problems with this lesson. Maya refused to work on the first two computers I tried to use. Sneaky shortcut keys are sneaky. But I think I finally got it. Finally.