Turkey NURBS

Slowly making progress through the NURBS chapters of the Maya 8:
Complete Reference book…

Polygon and Sub-D Modeling…

I am finally done with the “Polygon and Sub-D Modeling” DVD from Digital-Tutors! It was really superb, and far more accessible than the official training materials sold by Autodesk.  I loved their demonstration of the modeling workflow with polygons, sub-d and nurbs. They show how to start a model with a nurbs loft and then go through a bunch of conversions to achieve various tasks in organic modeling, which is something that haven’t seen from Autodesk. Here is the final model: