Maya 2015

Lecture Details

Before we can use our body base for building our topology we will want to create a Polygon version of it. We will do this through the modify menu NURBS to Poly tool. Having our body base as a Polygon object will allow us to take advantage of the edges while setting up our final geometry. When we make the body base a live surface we will be able to draw our topology out directly on top of it. This overall process will allow us to create the topology for our body model to exacting specification.

Creating a character model requires very specific topology concepts to be followed. Our body model will be driven by a skeleton which will deform the model using a skin. As a result areas that need to bend have to be taken into consideration. If an area needs to be able to crease such as behind the knees or inside of the elbows we will want to have edges in those locations. Having edges in areas that need to crease is very important for keeping good deformation during animation.

Since we will be using the character base that we have created to build our topology we will be able to define the exact locations of every single edge. In fact, the entire purpose of using this workflow for creating a character model is so that we can layout the topology exactly the way we want it. The ease of which we will be able to do so will quickly show the power held inside of Maya’s Modeling Toolkit.

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