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Digital Tutors – Modeling Hard Surfaces with NURBS in maya

20/01/2019 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

Digital Tutors – Modeling Hard Surfaces with NURBS in maya
English | Size: 173 MB
Category: Tutorial

In this course we will use multiple NURBS techniques to build a skateboard in Maya.

NURBS geometry provides several advantages over some of the other types of building methods available, but the process for creating NURBS geometry is somewhat different from building polygon or sub-d models. In this course we will explore hard-surface modeling by using a variety of NURBS tools and techniques in Maya to build a skateboard. We’ll go over tools like lofting, fillets, and using the CV curve tool and, by the end of this project, you’ll have a taste of the NURBS building process and be able to use these tools to start building your own models. [Read more…]

Digital Tutors – Sculpting Hard Surfaces in ZBrush 3.5 R3

09/08/2018 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

Digital Tutors – Sculpting Hard Surfaces in ZBrush 3.5 R3
English | Size: 1.18 GB
Category: Tutorial

In this series of lessons we’ll learn how to use some of the hard-surface sculpting tools in Zbrush. Zbrush has always been a great application for sculpting incredibly detailed organic shapes. But did you know that Zbrush has a number of useful tools that will help you to sculpt more hard surface shapes as well? In this course, we’ll talk about the Polish brushes, which will allow us to combine smooth curves and sharp edges in a single stroke. The strokes themselves have been enhanced with Backtrack, allowing us to get smoother, straighter lines when sculpting. We’ll also cover the Re-mesh functionality which will allow us to combine multiple shapes in Boolean-type operations. We can also take advantage of the Zbrush primitives to give us a great starting point for some of our hard surface shapes. [Read more…]