Introduction to Autodesk Maya
Course 5 – UVs: Displaying and Understanding: Where to make UV cuts
By Miguel Miranda , 3D Modeler
About the video: Where to make UV cuts
Overview
“In this lesson you will learn to make the cuts well thought out to display the UVs of a character well and that there are no stretches or errors.”
In this video lesson Miguel Miranda addresses the topic: Where to make UV cuts, 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 6 Where to make UV cuts In this lesson I teach you where to make the character's UV cuts so that there are no stretches or errors. I'm going to show you. We will see in this example Where to make cuts in characters. Each character will be different, normally. I know there are a number of cuts that will be useful to know to face some UV of the character, especially the first character, if you have no experience. I have already done some UV. I will show you where they are and in the last lesson I will do it little by little for you to see. The important thing is that when...”
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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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