NURBS Modeling with Autodesk Maya

NURBS Modeling with Autodesk Maya, available at $34.99, has an average rating of 4.6, with 12 lectures, based on 12 reviews, and has 71 subscribers.

You will learn about 3D modeling using the elegance and power of NURBS, mainly for industrial design Example: A bathtub made from 3 "Birail" curves; a pair of glasses with two NURBS "Fillets". This course is ideal for individuals who are Designers who want to migrate from 2D to 3D industrial design. Or from Polygon to NURBS modeling. or Industrial design, rendering and animation for computer games, 3D printing, visualizing and prototyping. It is particularly useful for Designers who want to migrate from 2D to 3D industrial design. Or from Polygon to NURBS modeling. or Industrial design, rendering and animation for computer games, 3D printing, visualizing and prototyping.

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Summary

Title: NURBS Modeling with Autodesk Maya

Price: $34.99

Average Rating: 4.6

Number of Lectures: 12

Number of Published Lectures: 12

Number of Curriculum Items: 12

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 12

Original Price: €99.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

3D modeling using the elegance and power of NURBS, mainly for industrial design
Example: A bathtub made from 3 "Birail" curves; a pair of glasses with two NURBS "Fillets".

Who Should Attend

Designers who want to migrate from 2D to 3D industrial design. Or from Polygon to NURBS modeling.
Industrial design, rendering and animation for computer games, 3D printing, visualizing and prototyping.

Target Audiences

Designers who want to migrate from 2D to 3D industrial design. Or from Polygon to NURBS modeling.
Industrial design, rendering and animation for computer games, 3D printing, visualizing and prototyping.

To participate in this course you should download a functional version of Maya. There is a student version as well as a version for a trial period. In the first tutorial we’ll get used to the basic navigation shortcuts in Maya. We’ll also create a NURBS torus and render it. The next tutorials let you create surfaces from curves. This unfolds the aesthetics and elegance of NURBS modeling. Each lesson ends with a homework for you. In the following lesson, I’ll explain my way to solve that task. At the end of this course you’ll not be a beginner, you’ll be an expert. And maybe you feel inspired to use other elements of Maya. It’s one of the most complex and most rich pieces of software ever programmed.

A few details of the course: Maya has an object and a component mode. In the object mode you create and modify curves and surfaces. The component mode lets you dive into the details of such curves and surfaces. In 3D modeling it’s often those details which make a product design succeed or fail. Miniature changes can have a huge impact. A little dose of deformation using for example Maya’s Sculpt Deformer makes your geometry less symmetrical and maybe more inspiring. We’ll create a bath tub from just 3 curves – and we find out that two more curves do a much better job, but 10 curves are just too much. The internet lets you download all kinds of 3D objects, most of which come in a polygon format. This course tells you how to deal with poly “meshes” as a NURBS enthusiast. And of course, lighting and rendering is always crucial for visualization: You can model the most elegant car fender; if you don’t light and render it, you’re client will send it back.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: NURBS Modeling, From Beginner to Expert

Lecture 1: The Maya UI And Our First NURBS Object, Rendered

Lecture 2: The Loft — Elegant Surfaces From Just Two Curves

Lecture 3: The Revolve And the Planar Surface

Lecture 4: Extracting Fresh Curves From Existing Geometry

Lecture 5: Extruding a Surface Along a Path

Lecture 6: A Bathtub From Just Three Birail Curves

Lecture 7: Modeling NURBS Surfaces And Curves With Deformers

Lecture 8: Cutting And Intersecting NURBS Surfaces

Lecture 9: Limitations And Strengths of the NURBS Topology

Lecture 10: NURBS Tools For All Purposes

Lecture 11: A Polygon Cat And Its Conversion to NURBS

Lecture 12: A Pair of Glasses And The Universe Of Maya

Instructors

Maximilian Schönherr
3D Tutor, Journalist, Musician, Wikipedian

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