feeshie! (the beginnings)

 

 

This semester, I'm trying to get back into Maya a bit. So I am making a feeshie feesh!

The body is a bunch of NURBS, and the humble skeletal beginnings are polygons.
(You can also read this old blog entry for a basic description of the two.)

As a preemptive method of trying to actually get my research underway this semester, I opted not to take the intro Maya class that many of my classmates are taking. (It's taught by a different department, way over on a different part of campus.) But, since Maya seems to be preferred to 3Ds Max in the industry, I'd like to know the basics. I'm trying to remember some of what I learned over a year ago, and I'd like to figure out texturing this time. (What you see above is a really lazy texturing job so far--I'm hoping to improve upon it!)

So far this semester, I've dabbled for the first time with:

• ZBrush (Wikipedia entry on Zbrush),  
• Meshlab (Wiki.),  
• Poser (Wiki.),  
• Premiere (Wiki.),  
• After Effects (Wiki.),  
• Soundbooth (Wiki.); 

I'm trying to become slightly (very slightly) more fluent in

• Osirix (Wiki.),  
• Mimics (Wiki.), and  
• Maya (Wiki.).

On the list of programs to tackle is

• Mudbox (Wiki.);

On the wishlist, since our computer lab doesn't seem to have any copies, and I haven't convinced myself to buy them yet, are

• Modo (Wiki.), and
• Cinema 4D (Wiki.).
  

I am by no means an expert in any of these.

Side note: my search widget was apparently only searching post titles (what! nonono, bad searchbox), so I've updated it to the "new" Google-based search box. I'm not a fan--I mean, it's mostly functional, but ICK. The other option, as far as I can tell, is to put the dumb Blogger-bar back at the top of the page. Grrrrrrr.

[Maya 2008]