10 Ways to Improve Your Modeling in Maya

[MUSIC PLAYING] Hello, I'm Justin with Digital-Tutors, an Autodesk Authorized Publisher. In this series of lessons, we're going to talk about 10 things that can help you with your modeling workflow. Now here at Digital-Tutors, we found that many students starting out in modeling have difficulty in creating the specific vision that they may have. In many cases, it's not necessarily a lack of knowledge of the tools as much as it is a lack of confidence and experience. So to give you a head start on your modeling, we put together a number of tips gleaned from production and from teaching students that will help you build the best models you can with a minimum of frustration. We'll talk about breaking down our modeling projects into manageable chunks. We'll cover methods for staying aware of as much information as possible about our geometry while we work. We'll cover specific techniques for adding circular resolution to square objects and go over setting up image planes. Now, this course is meant for students that have a little modeling experience and are familiar with some of the tools but would just like a few tips for creating a smoother workflow, getting better results. So with that, let's go ahead and get started.