1. Alias MAYA 6.0 Tutorial Overview Basic Tools & MAYA Interface
Polygonal Modeling - Hammer
NURBS Modeling – Glass I, II

2. Overview
Final Fantasy Movie

3. Overview – cont .

4. Overview – cont .

5. BASIC - Interface Channel/ Menu Bar Attribute Box Status Line Shelf
Workspace
Tool Box
Layout Shortcut
Command Line

6. Axis Direction Indicator
Workspace
Panel Menu
Grid
Axis Direction Indicator

7. Transformation Manipulators
Move : W
Rotate : E
Scale : R

8. Selection & De-Selection

9. Camera Tools
Dollying the view

10. Camera Tools – cont.
Tumbling the view

11. Camera Tools – cont .
Tracking the view

12. Primitive Objects
Maya Provides many types of primitive types and shapes

13. Primitive Objects – cont .
Used as a start point for various shapes and forms
To create primitive objects
‘Create > Polygon Primitives >’,
‘Create > NURBS Primitives >’, or
Click ‘shelf’

14. Channel Box Editing panel Object’s transformation information
Control the attribute of an object with more accuracy

15. Attribute Editor Provides attributes for the objects and materials
More detailed display of all attributes for selected object

16. Surface Materials Color, shininess and reflectivity attributes
Controlled by its surface material
To assign a new material
‘Lighting/Shading > Assign New Material >’, or
Right click & ‘Materials > Assign New Material >’

17. Grouping Group Select objects
With L-button, shift-click each object, or
With L-button, drag one large bounding box
From main menu, select ‘edit > group > ’

18. Practice

19. Polygonal Modeling Menus used in this practices
Edit polygons > Extrude Face
Edit polygons > Split Polygon Tool
Edit polygons > Subdivide >
Polygons > Smooth

20. Hammer (1/4)

21. Hammer (2/4)

22. Hammer (3/4)

23. Hammer (4/4)

24. NURBS Modeling NURBS(Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline)
Method of mathematically describing curves and surfaces
Characterized by the smooth organic forms

25. Revolving & Lofting Used Menu Create > CV Curve Tool
Surfaces > Revolve
Window > Outliner
Snap to points (Status line)
Edit > Duplicate
Surfaces > Loft

26. Glass I – NURBS & Revolving

27. Glass II - NURBS & Lofting

28. Assignment #1 – 3D Modeling
Allowed modeling tools
MAYA or 3D Studio Max
Judged by …

29. Assignment Submission
Materials to submit
1 compressed file (.zip or .alz)
Filename: studentID.zip ex) zip
3D model file
Captured images at each modeling step
6 or more
Add its simple explanation of used techniques
Due: October 2, 23:59