After the popularity of my Rigging In Maya series, I decided to take a break from rigging tutorials and instead create one focusing on modeling, and in this course we look at creating a female base mesh.
As well as building the main model we also investigate testing how the model deforms as well as UV mapping her so she is then able to be rigged and textured.
Your base mesh is complete, so in this bonus video I wanted to walk through my process for UV mapping her, making the model ready to be textured.
The main body model is almost complete, but before we move on and test how it deforms, we are going to take a break and work on some of the extra elements we will need.
So in this video we will build her eyes, teeth and tongue.
We now have the first pass done on the body, head and face. We've also made a good start on the hands and feet, so much so that I think all we need to do in those areas is clean up the topology and work on the shape.
At this stage we get to take a step back and look at the body as a whole before going in and working on the second detail pass.
At this stage the model is complete, but as she is intended for animation it would be a good idea to test how she deforms and update the topology where needed.
Now, we have kept this in mind as we worked, but its still worth spending some time to make sure, before it is passed on to be textured.