Tuesday, January 31, 2012

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.

Saturday, January 28, 2012

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.