Friday, September 28, 2018

Brushing up in Maya Continued

I have recently been brushing up my previous skills in Maya so I have been watching a bunch of tutorials since it's been a while. Here is what I have watched tutorials on:

-Combine and Separate
-Using Brush Tools to sculpt meshes
-Setting up reference
-Modeling against reference
-Working with Edge Loops
-Using the Extrude Tool

These tutorials have been definitely insightful!

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Brushing Up on Maya Continued...

Tonight I brushed up on these tutorials: These were some awesome tutorials and I am glad I found these on Youtube. The creator does a great job of explaining Maya and It's good to be looking back at it after a while.

-Hiding and Showing Objects
-Creating Layers
-Working with Selection Masks
-Differences between Nurbs and Polygons
-Polygonal Modeling
-Select Polygonal Components
-Using Soft Selection and Symmetry

Monday, September 17, 2018

Brushing up on Maya Continued

I have been brushing up on my Maya skills while working on Fresh Snow. I am coming at Maya with a much fresher perspective than I did in college. Here is some of the ones I have watched recently. I really like the tutorials from iLearn on Youtube. He does a great job of making it easy to understand as he walks through the program. It has been a while so I am definitely brushing up my previous skills. I can't wait to dive into all of his videos there are so many! :) Here are some of the ones that I have watched already.

-Overview of the Maya Interface
-Work with files and Maya Projects
-Navigating in Maya
-Configuring Viewports
-Using the Hotbox and Marking Menus
-Customizing the Interface
-Using Maya workspaces
-Selecting Objects
-Using the Move Tool
-Rotate and Scale Tool
-Manipulate Pivots
-Duplicate Objects
-Understanding the Channel Box
-Working with the Attribute Editor
-Reset and Freeze Transformations

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Rough Exploratory Storyboards for Fresh Snow

First Rough Draft- Getting the feels 


2nd Rough Draft: Getting location placements





3rd Draft Boards coming soon! :)