Introduction to Autodesk Maya
Course 5 – UVs: Displaying and Understanding: What are UVs?
By Miguel Miranda , 3D Modeler
About the video: What are UVs?
Overview
“You will understand what are UVs , which are the skin of the character that you can color.”
In this video lesson Miguel Miranda addresses the topic: What are UVs?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 5 – UVs: Displaying and Understanding. Begin to understand UVs, learn how to place them, and create UVs for a character.
Partial transcription of the video
“MAYA COURSE 5 LESSON 3 What are uvs? In this lesson I explain what UV is. They are the skin of the character, which you can draw and color. Let's see it. UV are two-dimensional coordinates that correspond to the geometry. If on a 3d lathe we have 3 axes, we have said, X, Y, Z, on the coordinate axis we only have two, U and V, which would correspond to X and Y. We skip the depth directly and it's like any drawing or flat image, any texture Hence, the flat image is where a UV comes from. A simple way to understand it is to flatten an object, as if we were crushing it against the wall of the U...”
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Course summary for: Course 5 – UVs: Displaying and Understanding
Miguel Miranda
By Miguel Miranda
Miguel Miranda has been a 3D artist for the past ten years, specializing in 3D character creation. He has modeled characters for advertising, film, video game cinematics, video games, and cartoons.
Throughout his career, he has worked for various studios and currently works as a modeler at 23lunes Animation Studio and on privately commissioned projects.
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