Cartoon-Style Still Life Modeling with Maya

Overview

“In this lesson we are going to model the parchment. I will teach you the basic and most used deformers in Maya. We will see the blend and the flare , which combined with the FFD will help us a lot to easily improve the shape of our models. I will also show you some tricks to optimize the mesh and give small breaks to our sheets. Finally, we will see how to create a small string to hold the parchment with the help of the splines .”

In this video lesson Albert Valls Punsich addresses the topic: Scroll Modeling 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Cartoon-Style Still Life Modeling with Maya. Learn the basic techniques to model and build cartoon-style 3D props.

Partial transcription of the video

“MODELING THE SCRIPT In this lesson I will teach you how to model a scroll. Remember to use the basics of modeling that you already know and your references. I'll show you the non-linear deformers, that will help you in a very simple way to deform the "shapes". I'll show it to you. Always remembering the post-it where we have all the guides that we can find. These guides are not rules, I already said it, here we can add all the things that seem to you to better style your "assets". I will leave it here by the side and, the same, I keep looking at the reference images, like the cuts we have a...”

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Course summary for: Cartoon-Style Still Life Modeling with Maya

• Level: Intermediate
• 99% positive reviews (110)
• 2913 students
• 4 units
• 24 lessons (5h 0m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation

• Software

  Maya

• Areas

  3D, 3D Design, 3D Modeling