Sphagnum Peat Moss 748 #1 Posted June 8, 2012 I'm in school for game programming, but we're in an artsy fartsy class right now where we have to make 3D models and scenes with Maya. I loathe artistic crap because I suck at it. I wanted to practice by making TF2 characters. Pyro is such a beautiful and sexy creature, so I want to make him first, but I'm having a bit of a programmer->artist learning curve with getting him to look right. Anyone out there with some leet Maya skillz can help me out? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nano 7,892 #2 Posted June 8, 2012 I used it when I was in college, but I remember shit now. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sphagnum Peat Moss 748 #3 Posted June 17, 2012 How about experience with UDK? Or importing static meshes from Maya in UDK? We've just written exporter plugins for Maya to convert to a format for our own model viewer, but while building my level in UDK, I'm getting a stronger desire to make my own meshes in Maya and export them to UDK. But I'm totally brand new with UDK and haven't quite figured out all its tools and features yet. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kerberos 3,170 #4 Posted June 17, 2012 Se7en... I lol'd, so hard! Haha 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BerylliumDragon 1 #6 Posted June 28, 2012 I'm in school for game programming, but we're in an artsy fartsy class right now where we have to make 3D models and scenes with Maya. I loathe artistic crap because I suck at it. I wanted to practice by making TF2 characters. Pyro is such a beautiful and sexy creature, so I want to make him first, but I'm having a bit of a programmer->artist learning curve with getting him to look right. Anyone out there with some leet Maya skillz can help me out? If you're still working in Maya, you may want to review some of the videos Masayiro Ushiyama put up.Do As Infinity used his work for one of their videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqZaA0vWFg0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sphagnum Peat Moss 748 #7 Posted June 30, 2012 Thanks for the links. We're done with Maya for our purposes as programmers (we mostly wrote plugins for it and just needed enough knowledge about it to know what our plugins were doing), but I'm still looking to learn more advanced stuff that we didn't cover so I can make some sexy pyro things. For my final assignment I just ended up making KOTH maps in UDK. Got TF2 on the brain. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
