#maya program

This is a video on how to make a toy bunny in Maya, while I wasn't at all keen on Maya and if I can help it, I will steer clear of it from now on but this video, considering I watched it after completing the tasks, really did help my image of it. The way they make the bunny look so detailed and stylised in the app does put a bit of perspective on it and while I still don't like it, if I was to use it again during the course, I would just re-watch this video to catch myself up. I highly recommend you watch this if you either, want to know how to make a bunny or you are struggling in Maya. They go through everything in enough detail to help you but also bing fast enough so that if you need to rewind and refresh your memory on something it doesn't drag on which is something that really annoys me when I have to repeat a step after a mistake or I have forgotten to do something.

This is the finished product of my Maya UFO which is meant to be the toy that comes in my cereal box. First I hid the glowing layers of all the things I’ve deleted, like the bottom half of the sphere. Then added a camera to my Maya page which you can see in the first and third picture, then you can see what I saw in my Maya which is the small zoomed out UFO picture and finally. The final picture is what it looks like after zooming in and adding a lighting effect. I’m very happy with this so far but soon we will be rendering them out with colour.

Here is the walkthrough of how I got my design for my cereal box into Maya and onto my box. I’m not actually too sure on how all this works since my teacher helped get this all done but I wanted to show how complex this all was and how well I think my cereal box turned out.

This is my finished UFO cereal box which I made in Maya. First i made the shape by stretching a cube out and then put the layout of the box onto a different page then copied that onto photoshop and drew my design onto the layout then pasted it back onto the box itself and the outcome is shown above. I do really like how the outlines look on the box, giving it an almost Rick and Morty look to it. I think that on the front face the outline could have been placed better but I think that makes it have more of a scribbled design that goes well with the wobbly lines on the bar codes, the ingredients list and the quick and easy look of the alien itself.

today I traced my sketchbook cereal box design in Photoshop and changed a few details like the spots on the alien, the alien's hand and the symbol on the left side of the box, then coloured the boxes. I went for a Grey Navy Blue since I wanted to have an outer space background but black wouldn't pop enough and I thought this suited the green and white really well. I made the cereal green with slightly green milk since when you have chocolate cereal the milk turns brown over time, and the tile colour is just a nice turquoise I found. I do like how this turned out but obviously if I had more time and my tablet from home I would have done a better job. Next i will add these faces to my box in Maya.

Here is how I've rearranged the sketchbook cereal box design into the Maya layout which I will use to paste the box design onto my Maya box. Obviously I will need to trace over this design and then colour it nicely so it looks officially done first, but this is just the draft for the page.

Here is the layout for my cereal box in Maya, I've already put the box's designs onto my blog but here is the actual box. i made it very easily by adding a cube to my Maya scene and then stretching it to this size then opening the layout which gave us the six cubes on the third picture. I will also include the picture of how I've rearranged the boxes to look more like a cereal box which I will use to add my sketchbook design I've already shown.

Today we made a soda can in Maya. We used Maya last week to make a chair and it turned out quite well I think and I think the same happened with this task. It was pretty easy to make the can since all we had to do was add a cylinder and play around with the length and width. Once I had the can looking like it does above I made the template in a different page and then copied it to a photoshop file and drew my very simple design. I went with the name Chillix since it seemed to pop. I went with a graffiti style for the writing but I'm not at all happy with how it turned out, if I had a decent amount of time for this i would make the words 'Chillix' and 'soda' nicer looking and maybe add a design.