CMT Biped Video Tutorial

[Phopojijo]

The first series of video tutorials will deal with correctly setting up Maya, getting to know the tools and the constantly recursing skills.

Once the basics are passed, a simple knife will be created using the tools above. It will be created from box-deformation rather than plane-extrusions given that box-deformation will be closer related to cylinder-deformation which will make up 95% of the biped modeling "hard spots".

Edit: In case it wasn't clear, this *is* the start of the CMT Brute Biped tutorial mentioned about in another thread. The biped you ultimately will learn to model will be the CMT H3 Brute Biped.

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Basics

Video 1: Single-plane reference frames (for knife tutorial)
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Resolution: 1680x1048
Size: 14MB, H.264+AAC, Quicktime7
Duration: ~3-4 minutes.

Video 2: Two-plane reference frames (Chimpire renders as reference)
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Size: 11MB, H.264+AAC, Quicktime7
Duration: ~3 minutes.
Supplemental: Ref:Side, Ref:Front

Video 3: Render Settings
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Size: ~44MB, H.264+AAC, Quicktime7
Duration: ~12 minutes.
(Teaches the basics of rendering/playblasts with Maya, and includes how to do the ever-so-requested "Clay Rendering" using Mental Ray)

Video 4: UI Setup
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Resolution: 1680x1048
Size: ~19MB, H.264+AAC, Quicktime7
Duration: ~6 minutes.

Video 5: Basic Tools
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Size: ~50MB, H.264+AAC, Quicktime7
Duration: ~12 minutes.
(Not worth getting for anyone who knows how split polygon, extrude, merge, and delete edge work)

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Knife Tutorial

Video 1: Blade Via Box Modeling
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Resolution: 1680x1048
Size: 41MB, H.264+AAC, Quicktime7
Duration: ~11 minutes.

Video 2: Handle via Cylinder Modeling
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Resolution: 1680x1048
Size: 81MB, H.264+AAC, Quicktime7
Duration: ~21 minutes.

(Video 3 may be coming. The Knife looks like shit and is by no means a serviceable model -- but the point was to teach the skills, not make a knife. Ex: Could cut in more polygons for the blade so the wedge curves with the blade. Could cut in the dip in the back of the blade. Could clean up unnecessary polygons. Etc. Etc. Etc. -- But that wasn't the point of it... the point was to show people how to shift vertices on box models to match topology based on reference frames... then step it up with vertex-shifting a cylinder to make an irregular organic shape.)

More to come as completed. Will hopefully be moved off my site given only a terabyte of transfer per month... with multiple-dollars-per-gig overages.

Feel free to ask questions (about modeling)! I'll do my best to answer them.

[Masterz1337]

Great job.

[thehoodedsmack]

Looks like win. I'll download later.

[Reaper Man]

Maya ftw.

[Phopojijo]

Editted the original post since I only just realized this was only posted in another thread (which not everyone may have seen)

The tutorial will ultimately cover the construction of the CMT Brute Biped.

Hence, of course, why this is posted in the CMT forums, rather than just general editting

Also, why it aparently became a sticky

[Limited]

The biped you ultimately will learn to model will be the CMT H3 Brute Biped.

How can we model some thing we have no clue what it looks like yet still call it halo 3..
nice work though

[Phopojijo]

(That was before Masters prompted me to make it a video tutorial)

[SgtBotley]

nooooo, lol i am halfway through making this brute...*crys*, i cant use Maya, so i guess im stuck with 3dsmax

im still d/l your tuts though, i need to get better at modding

[Phopojijo]

nooooo, lol i am halfway through making this brute...*crys*, i cant use Maya, so i guess im stuck with 3dsmax

im still d/l your tuts though, i need to get better at modding

Then finish her up!

They'll each have their own unique artistic flow -- in spite of attempting to be complete recreations of existing reference.

[ICY]

looks sweet (if i modeled, i would get it)