Maya 2015

Lecture Details

In order to get into box modeling we will first be setting up our initial cube. Creating a cube can be done through interactive creation or by standard creation. Interactive creation will allow us to set the width and height of the cube that is created or we can simply drop a preset cube into the scene through standard creation. Once we create the initial cube for our box modeling we can use the scale tool to resize the cube. The scale tool gizmo is very similar to the move tool gizmo except that instead of translating a position for our object we will change the size of it. After getting the cube into an initial size and poly count we can then begin our box modeling technique.

There are standard and very commonly used tools within Maya for performing modeling procedures. Two such tools are the Extrude and Edge Loop tools. Using the Extrude tool we can pull geometry out of existing geometry simply by selecting a face, pressing the Extrude button and dragging that face into a different position. Additional faces will be created linking the extruded faces new position to that of its old position. In order to quickly add additional faces to the model we will make use of the Edge Loop tool. The Edge Loop tool will allow us to maintain quad faces across a model while adding additional edges. Not only will the edge loop tool create edges but it will at the same time split the faces in two and attempt to maintain square polygons across the entire model.

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