Modeling in a new way

I have modelled this simple character yesterday in order to be able to understand the basic concepts of UV Mapping on Maya. It took me approximately 4 hours to do it. I could have done the same thing on 3Dsmax in about 20 minutes.



Probably next time will not take so long once I am getting used to the interface and the modelling features.

I have to do the UV Mapping now and I still don’t quite know how, but I am already trying. I hope to have something by the end of the day, and then I shall start with the Bone and Rigging part.

Now that is going to be a challenge.

The magic of Free PLE

Well my main modeling and animation tool is the 3Dsmax, it is what I use best, and what I have been using for the past 4 years. The thing is, there is a great deal of game companies here that use Maya, and not having that in your CV might be an application killer.

So I decided to browse through the Maya website so check out if I could learn something. I barely typed www.alias.com, the first thing that popped in the main page is the Maya 7.0 Personal Learning Edition, Free and without any annoying time limitations!

I mean. The fact that I can download a program just for learning is amazing. I am not a company, I am not going to use it with any commercial purposes anyway, I just want to know how to model, so I can put that I know Maya on my CV.
I have made the 200 Mb download, that took no longer that an hour on my 1 Mb Broadband and installed it.

Turns out that the program seems to be excellent. I am already getting used to the new interface and it has some features that really impressed me.
Today I intend to model a simple test character, to be able to understand how the mapping, rigging and animation inside the program works.

Well, enough now
Let's Model.

CSS Headache

Well, that is it. Finally I have a template of my own. I had some trouble dealing with the Blogger Tags because I have not yet found a list of them, so I had to copy from the previous template. But anyways, there it is. My 3Dsmax-viewport-kinda-blog-layout.

I hope to have some good news soon.

Cheers.

Path Constraint Again

It is been hard to find a placement or a job in the game industry. Altough I did not want to do it, I think I will have to surrender to general Graphic Design.

This shall be written in english although I am not a native speaker. As a matter of fact I'm am brazilian and I'm starting this blog as a statement of my atempt to become a professional of the game industry.

I have moved to the United Kingdom in September 10th, 2005 and I intend to find work as soon as possible. I have sent a whole lot of portifolios right now, and I have received a whole lot of letters saying:

"Thank you for your application, we regret that we have not been able to offer you an interview on this occation"

that could also be read as: Loser, ha ha, your demo CD stinks, maybe next time sucker! ! !

So, it is public now.