Lynda - Maya: Advanced Modeling

Enhance your Maya skill set by learning about advanced techniques and tools that can help you approach modeling nearly any shape with confidence. In this course, instructor Andy Beane dives deep into modeling with Maya. He starts with an overview of modeling basics, before moving on to creating some specific models of a leather chair, a side table, and several other small room objects like walls, floors, books, bookshelves, and picture frames. Finally, he puts the whole room together by cleaning up all the files, importing the individual files into a single file, and adding the final camera shot.
Topics include:
Modeling workflows
Geometry conversion
Deformers
Working with small room objects
Modeling the top, middle base, and floor base of a table
Blocking chair shapes in Maya
Retopology in Mudbox for Maya
Cleaning up model files
Managing files and importing