Task 1

I will start with the task ”Getting started in MAYA”

In this task I will learn:

We get the next resources for this task:

First of all we are going to extract this compressed file.

After extracting the file we are going to open MAYA and create anew project to get familiar with some controls.

The first one being how to change perspective, to have a different view on your object, you simply have to press space, and then move your mouse to de desired view and press space again.

Next we are going to learn how to move the camera.

Scroll up and down = Zoom in/out

ALT + R. Click = Rotate camera

ALT + Middle mouse B. = Drag camera

And finally we are going to learn some useful shortcuts to optimise our time while working on a project.

Q = selection tool

W = Move tool

E = Rotate tool

R = Scale tool

Now we are going to set up a project in MAYA to let the program know where to find our project recourses such as textures.

So we select the folder where the recourses are located.

Now we can open our scene.

We select where our scene is located.

This is our open scene.

Now we are going to use the basic knowledge we learnt to build a Dominos tower, Write the word animation with the toy cubes and order the books on the shelf by color.

Dominos tower:

Word ”Animation”.

Shelf books.

To end this task we are going to work with edges faces and vertex.

End of task 1

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Task 2

I will follow with the task ”3D model a simple low-poly space ship”

In this task I will use all of the techniques that I learnt during the lesson to model a simple star ship.

This is my reference:

This is my first attempt to build a star ship using the extrude technique.