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Content Inside: This tutorial will demonstrate how to use a spline cage to help model an organic creature out of polygons and/or subdivision surfaces in MAYA. A spline cage is a representation of a 3d surface made out of splines, or curves. Modeling with a spline cage is useful for several ...

Content Inside : Maya’s polygon toolset has evolved over the past several versions to include numerous approaches for the creation of organic and hard surface objects. This tutorial will take you through the process of creating a mouse embryo starting from a simple polygon cube through the creation of a base ...

Content Inside : The first thing you need is…a turtle to take some reference photos. If you have any, you can use the images included in this tutorial. I used them to draw the reference profiles, to model the different parts of the turtle and of course to get the images ...

Part of Content : This tutorial will take you through the process of creating a mouse embryo starting from a simple polygon cube through the creation of a base mesh suitable for subdividing and detailing. Some Basic Rules For Efficient Poly Modeling, Avoid n-sided polygons (polygons with more than 3 or ...