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Learn a production workflow to creating urban environments and time-saving modeling, texturing, and UV mapping techniques that can be used for Film, Games, and Architectural Visualizations. Contains over 6 hours of project-based training. Great for intermediate artists. Popular highlights include: * Hard Surface Modeling Techniques * Modeling with Texture * Modeling to a Camera * Strategically Adding Detail * Simulating Aging and Decay * UV Layout Techniques * Using UV Snapshots * Integrating Maya and Photoshop * Generating Displacement Maps * Texture Painting with Photoshop * Layering Textures * Tiling Textures * Generating Procedural Maps * Adding Architectural Elements * Creating Interior Illusions with Textures * Connecting Maya Texture Nodes * Complex Scene Management * Scene Optimization for Rendering
(about 730 minutes)
This video was added to our catalog on September 18, 2007 in Digital Art - 3D::Maya.
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This DVD set covers construction and texturing of a simple alleyway, not quite what I was expecting as an "urban environment." No building design or construction tips. Still, it is very useful and a great rental investment for three reasons.
One, if you are transferring to Maya from another program, this DVD set is great for showing you how to use polygon tools you might have 'referenced' but didn't think would be useful for much. A real eye-opener, especially for people used to boolean ops in other programs, but confounded by Maya's disregard for boolean ops.
Second, this DVD provides some real lessons in standard modelling methods of making buildings and related structures look weathered and old. Not intended, but a real highlight. Can't do it all with textures, you know!
Third, this DVD does a much better job of explaining the UV mapping tools and how to use them / go about texture mapping in MAYA than any other tutorial I've looked at. Much better than ..., or at least a great companion to the DVD tutorials specifically intended to teach UV mapping for Maya.
