Saturday, 14 May 2011

Week 2 Lab 2 (Gear)

In this exercise, i am supposed to model a gear.

Process
First of all, i opened up the maya file given.
After opening that, i went into face mode and began selecting alternating faces of the Pipe primitive.


Next, i extruded them using the y and x scale


After that, i moved out the z scale while extruding and voila! the gear is done.







Techniques
In this exercise, i learned that shift selecting(toggle) and ctrl selecting(cancel) is very important when i want to deal with several thing at once, like faces or vertices. Also, i learned that extruding can help me deform or form many different things from a simple primitive shape.

Reflection
This exercise was very easy. Because of the base file given, all i had to do was follow the instructions of the html and i have to say that they were very clear because of video footage. I hope that the future exercises all have these kinds of tutorials because video is always clearer than text and pictures.

References
 01 Gear Exercise.zip

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