Organic Modelling

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Organic Modelling

• IM209
• Eunjoo Lee, Martin Wright,
• Romas Mikusauskas, Edd Schneider

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Further Reading

• Learning Maya Lesson 8, Learning Maya,
  AliasWavefront 2001 ISBN 0-9685725-5-3
• Tutorial
• Launch Maya - Help - Library - Instant Maya - 3
  NURBS Modeling - Lesson 2 Sculpting a surface

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Learning Objectives

• How to pull CVs using the Move tools normal
  setting
• How to sculpt surfaces by painting with Artisan
• how to use different brush operations
• How to use the Texture Paint Tool

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Move CV normal

• Double-click on the Move tool
• Set move option to Normal
• U, V represents Isoparm lines
• N normal direction off of the surface

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Setting up the surface

• To work effectively the surface should have a
  large number of CVs.
• Edit NURBS -gt Rebuild Surface ? - Number of Spans
  U 30, V 30 - Rebuild

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Sculpting the surface

• Edit NURBS -gt Sculpt Surface Tool ?

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Sculpt Surface Tool

• Operation Push

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Sculpt Surface Tool

• Operation Pull

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Sculpt Surface Tool

• Operation Smooth

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Sculpt Surface Tool

• Operation Erase

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Sculpt Surface Tool

• Operation Flood Erase

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Sculpting the eye sockets
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Sculpting the eye sockets

• The strokes you applied to the left eye will be
  mirrored on the right eye

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Sculpting nose and mouth
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Complete eyes

• Create two primitive spheres for eyes
• Move them into eye sockets
• Parent eyes to the head

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Add a ramp texture to the eyes colour

• Attribute Editor select ramp

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Painting Textures

• Rendering Mode Texturing 3D Paint Tool - ?

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Finish the look