The following tutorial series is directly from Module 1 of 3 of "Maya Foundation: Home-Study Course" tutorial course.
I've released this entire first Module completely free. It is focused on teaching you how to get started learning Maya completely from scratch in just 4 hours.
The full "Maya Foundation: Home Study Course" contains 3 Modules and 18+ hours of tutorials.
In this tutorial you will learn how to work with object's Component Mode. Be able to manipulate/change vertices, edges, faces and more.
Component Mode: allow you to manipulate vertices, faces and edges. This is where more direct modeling control comes into play. Majority of your time modeling will be using the component mode and shaping your polys.
To access Object Component Mode, select it first then:
Then switch to vertices, edges or faces:
As a beginner, ignore everything except vertices, edges and faces.
Here are 5 useful hotkeys for Object Component Mode. Select the object and press:
Once you've enabled any of the component modes (vertices, edges or faces), you can then modify the object by switching to Move, Rotate or Scale.
For example, if you select a set of vertices together, you can move them, rotate them or scale them.
This goes for edges and faces.
This is where more direct modeling and object modification comes in. This is how you will begin modeling objects in Maya. By switching to a specific component mode and changing its shape.
Learn environment modeling. Pick Maya go all in. Learn how to model and UV with it better than anyone else. Become a modeling master with it. In "Maya Foundation: Home Study Course" I will show you how.
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