WEBVTT 00:00.120 --> 00:05.490 Welcome to this three modeling class where we will create a Ghostbuster trap so we can start to learn 00:05.490 --> 00:10.530 the three modeling tools inside of Maya, any time you start modeling something, you want to look at 00:10.530 --> 00:13.560 reference in case you don't know what a Ghostbuster trap is. 00:13.860 --> 00:15.810 You can just Google it and find some images. 00:16.170 --> 00:21.120 And we're going to use this just as a template, not really as an exact match that we're going to try 00:21.120 --> 00:21.540 to get. 00:21.900 --> 00:28.170 But just, you know, there's a kind of box here that has different knobs and a handle on it and that 00:28.170 --> 00:28.770 kind of a thing. 00:29.010 --> 00:34.470 And that's kind of the general kind of direction we're going to try to model this object in so we can 00:34.470 --> 00:36.080 start to learn some miah. 00:36.600 --> 00:37.890 So I'm going to switch back to Maya. 00:38.250 --> 00:42.700 And any time you start using Maya, you want to set your project. 00:43.140 --> 00:46.390 This is something to remember from here on out. 00:46.410 --> 00:52.500 This isn't just some thing that, you know, you want to do sometimes. 00:52.500 --> 00:57.540 This is, you know, from day one when I was learning Miotto, you work in a big studio. 00:57.570 --> 01:00.960 You want to set your project actually. 01:00.960 --> 01:02.700 Well, big studios have their own way of doing stuff. 01:02.700 --> 01:08.610 But a small studio, maybe you want to set your project file, go down to set a project. 01:08.610 --> 01:13.230 And the reason this is important is because any time you have, you know, later down the road, you 01:13.230 --> 01:18.810 have texture's say you're doing a Closs simulation and you want to cash that out or all these other 01:18.810 --> 01:21.360 technical things that we'll get into later. 01:21.810 --> 01:26.170 We need somewhere for Maya to save all those things to reference into the scene. 01:26.550 --> 01:33.540 So in my directory, I've made a Maya folder and I'm going to set that and it will ask you to create 01:33.540 --> 01:34.740 a default workspace. 01:35.040 --> 01:40.590 And typically this just means, you know, it's going to save, you know, kind of unimportant stuff. 01:40.590 --> 01:42.940 Like what kind of view did you have open? 01:42.960 --> 01:44.610 Was it a perspective or a side view? 01:44.610 --> 01:48.180 And you know, what kind of preferences maybe you had for that workspace. 01:48.480 --> 01:53.160 So you can just say create a default workspace and you won't have to do that again. 01:53.160 --> 01:54.960 You'll have to do the first time you set a project. 01:55.440 --> 01:57.930 We're also going to go to the project window. 01:57.930 --> 02:02.580 The other option here under Project, you can see Project Ingrey, we only have two options. 02:02.610 --> 02:04.050 We've already done set project. 02:04.050 --> 02:05.010 The project is set. 02:05.430 --> 02:10.260 So let's go to a project window and we get all of these different folder options here. 02:10.470 --> 02:16.560 And if you don't see these names typed out here, you can go to edit reset settings and it should fill 02:16.560 --> 02:17.670 all of those out for you. 02:18.090 --> 02:25.320 And this will create folders, like I mentioned a moment ago, for caches, for images. 02:25.620 --> 02:31.590 And mostly we're going to be using for scenes because when we save a Miah file, if we just hit command 02:31.590 --> 02:37.230 s like you would in a word document or whatever, just to save the file, it's going to save a dot m, 02:37.230 --> 02:47.010 b or a dot in A and that's M for Maya and A or B depending on if you save an ASCII or binary file. 02:47.340 --> 02:48.740 But that's not that important right now. 02:48.750 --> 02:50.910 Let's just accept and we'll make all these folders. 02:51.210 --> 02:56.640 So when we go to file save sko file save scene and because we haven't done it yet, it'll open up this 02:56.640 --> 02:57.510 dialog box. 02:57.900 --> 03:01.380 And now we have this current project. 03:01.380 --> 03:06.360 It knows where our current project is and we have all those folders that it had listed it out. 03:06.690 --> 03:10.050 And any time we're saving a scene, we want to save in the scenes folder. 03:10.290 --> 03:16.170 And you can see that it is under our project that I defined as Maya and now I can name it whatever I 03:16.170 --> 03:16.470 want. 03:16.470 --> 03:22.590 And I can choose to be an ASCII or binary, and it doesn't really matter, to be honest, for our purposes. 03:22.920 --> 03:24.870 So I'm going to name that Ghostbuster trap. 03:26.030 --> 03:35.210 And it's safe, so now we have the project saved and that way, if we need to move the project to another 03:35.210 --> 03:41.270 computer, it will have reference a path to the project settings so it will know where the textures 03:41.270 --> 03:43.320 are or or anything else like that. 03:44.000 --> 03:47.630 So let's get started and model this Ghostbuster trap. 03:48.050 --> 03:49.640 So let's take a look at this reference. 03:50.060 --> 03:56.050 And we basically have a rectangle with a hint, a cylinder handle. 03:56.360 --> 04:01.970 So let's start with the most basic elements first and then we'll add detail later, because any time 04:01.970 --> 04:07.420 you do modeling, whether it's hard or organic, let's start with the simplest shapes first and then 04:07.520 --> 04:08.690 add detail later. 04:08.700 --> 04:11.600 We don't want to start with the detail on really anything. 04:11.600 --> 04:14.270 And that goes the same is true for animation. 04:14.870 --> 04:20.630 Most art, you know, you start with the basics first, so let's create the rectangle and the handle, 04:20.900 --> 04:22.850 because those are the biggest, most obvious things. 04:23.450 --> 04:26.780 So in Maya, there's a couple of different ways we can create things. 04:26.780 --> 04:34.730 You know, we have this shelf here, the poly modeling shelf, and there are curves and surfaces here 04:34.730 --> 04:37.730 which, you know, it looks like they have similar things. 04:37.730 --> 04:39.890 But these are called nerve surfaces. 04:40.250 --> 04:45.680 And these aren't very useful for modeling and animation. 04:46.640 --> 04:55.550 They sometimes are used for kind of just to create controls on rigs, to create paths, to revolve a 04:55.550 --> 05:03.920 shape around or constrain a camera to a path or fly a plane down a curve path, something like that. 05:04.400 --> 05:07.880 But for our purposes, we're not going to be using nerve surfaces. 05:08.280 --> 05:14.390 We're going to be doing poorly modeling where we have vertices, edges and faces. 05:14.810 --> 05:17.210 So let's create the rectangle. 05:17.570 --> 05:25.190 We can click this rectangle right here and zoom in by right clicking and holding down alt and left clicking 05:25.190 --> 05:26.090 to rotate around. 05:26.090 --> 05:31.970 If you remember, we could also create that by doing the polygon primitives and we could pop this off 05:31.970 --> 05:34.610 if we wanted to and create a bunch of these cubes. 05:34.760 --> 05:35.780 That's another way to do it. 05:36.350 --> 05:41.420 But now that we have this, we can go over to our channel box here and we can see we have a poly cube 05:41.420 --> 05:44.870 one and we can see it's called P Cube one here. 05:44.870 --> 05:47.090 And it's also called Cube one here and it's highlighted. 05:47.090 --> 05:48.590 So we know this is what's highlighted. 05:49.190 --> 05:57.830 And I point out these things because, you know, we can translate this thing around different ways 05:57.830 --> 05:59.030 and that's reflected here. 05:59.300 --> 06:00.680 But there's also other options. 06:00.680 --> 06:03.320 When we pop this down, we can get subdivision's. 06:03.770 --> 06:09.560 So every one of the more subdivisions, we can go to subdivision with height and depth and those will 06:09.560 --> 06:14.810 do different kind of dimensions on this, depending on if we need more geometry. 06:15.230 --> 06:16.510 We'll get to that in a minute. 06:16.640 --> 06:18.310 Let's first make the basic shape. 06:18.620 --> 06:24.590 So I'll go to with and I'll make this a little longer and a little wider. 06:25.690 --> 06:26.760 And until. 06:35.160 --> 06:41.270 So now we have something that approximates the size and I'm going to go and turn on the anti aliasing 06:41.280 --> 06:49.230 and the ambient inclusion to help us visualize this most going to lift this up and we can see depending 06:49.230 --> 06:57.240 on the width, height and depth, if I just change this to five and knees to two, that I know the height 06:57.240 --> 07:03.360 is two, that this needs to the top one to be able to be sitting right on the floor. 07:03.660 --> 07:03.820 Right. 07:03.900 --> 07:08.380 Because it's measuring from the center, wherever manipulator is, that's where it's measuring from. 07:08.400 --> 07:14.040 So if it's a height of two and this is in the middle, then it's one to the floor right from where the 07:14.040 --> 07:14.910 manipulator is. 07:14.910 --> 07:17.270 If we bring this down to the floor, it's going to be at zero. 07:18.330 --> 07:22.020 So that's one way to kind of know how it's calculating what these numbers are. 07:22.020 --> 07:22.590 Exactly. 07:23.490 --> 07:26.460 So we have that rectangle now. 07:26.460 --> 07:27.540 Let's create the handle. 07:27.990 --> 07:30.780 We can click the cylinder here and drag this up. 07:30.790 --> 07:37.470 You can hit W if you don't have the manipulator selected yet, you it e to rotate this over and to get 07:37.470 --> 07:39.380 it exact, we can just type in 90. 07:39.390 --> 07:41.300 You can do negative 90 or 90 for us. 07:41.310 --> 07:42.480 It doesn't really matter right now. 07:42.960 --> 07:50.730 And we could scale this down or we could use similarly these types of attributes over here so we could 07:51.030 --> 07:56.010 reduce the radius or we could, you know, just scale it down the scale tool by hitting R. 07:56.670 --> 07:58.680 And let's move this to one side. 08:00.150 --> 08:00.900 And move it up. 08:02.420 --> 08:08.360 And then we can make another cue, a couple of different ways we could duplicate this one, we get it, 08:08.360 --> 08:12.830 Kamandi, and now we have another one that we can scale and do all these things, too. 08:13.130 --> 08:18.450 But you can see when you duplicate just what the shortcut, you don't have that option anymore, right? 08:19.190 --> 08:21.580 We don't have that poly cube input that we had here. 08:21.920 --> 08:28.510 So sometimes it's nice to just use the basic tools to make sure that we have this history here, that 08:28.520 --> 08:31.170 later we can go back in and change if we want to. 08:31.820 --> 08:40.100 So let's bring this here and scale it down a little bit and let's talk about some ways to align things. 08:40.370 --> 08:48.290 So, you know, if we wanted to get this to be exactly on this edge, it might be kind of hard to use 08:48.290 --> 08:50.720 the manipulator, you know, back and forth. 08:51.380 --> 08:55.710 There are a couple of different things we can do to move things around and be very specific. 08:56.000 --> 08:59.720 Of course, we can go up here and type in a number, but we could just be typing all day. 08:59.720 --> 09:03.040 And, you know, we might not get exactly visually what it looks like. 09:03.470 --> 09:11.390 So to know that we have snap to that, we can use the snapping tools, but the snapping tools go based 09:11.390 --> 09:12.900 off of where the manipulator is. 09:13.190 --> 09:17.510 So, for example, if I hold down V on the keyboard, that means vertices. 09:17.510 --> 09:18.710 It's going to snap to vertices. 09:19.250 --> 09:25.010 And just to show you what were the components that we're dealing with to know what a vertices even is. 09:25.370 --> 09:27.380 Let me break this down even further. 09:27.810 --> 09:31.520 So if we take this square, I'm going to isolate it with this little button here. 09:31.520 --> 09:35.000 Isolate, select I right click. 09:35.600 --> 09:43.790 Now I can see and change my selection mode to edge, vertex, vertex, face, face or back to object 09:43.790 --> 09:45.800 mode, which is what we're currently and where an object mode. 09:46.040 --> 09:48.740 And it's also denoted by this little button up here in the top left. 09:49.280 --> 09:50.360 I'm going to go to component mode. 09:50.360 --> 09:55.370 We can click on this button and again, you know, it'll show that if you hold it down or if you hover 09:55.370 --> 10:01.130 over it, rather, and you can see the different kind of components that we can select here and we can 10:01.130 --> 10:01.870 isolate those. 10:01.880 --> 10:03.740 So now we're selecting the lines. 10:04.130 --> 10:09.940 Or if we go back to this one and dislike the line, we get the vertices. 10:10.730 --> 10:17.090 So now we can edit the basic components of all the polygons here. 10:17.720 --> 10:20.390 And if we want to do this quickly, we can right. 10:20.390 --> 10:25.250 Click and hold, drag up and go to edge mode now and now we can adjust the edges. 10:26.120 --> 10:31.910 So that just gives you a quick idea of of what the components are that make up a polygon. 10:32.570 --> 10:36.590 So I just went to object mode to get back in so I can select the whole thing. 10:36.830 --> 10:40.070 I can also go up here and click this middle button to go back and object mode. 10:40.400 --> 10:43.220 I'm an uneasy slate this now so we can go back to our model. 10:43.820 --> 10:48.500 So the next thing we need to understand is how to change where the manipulator is. 10:48.890 --> 10:57.110 So if I hold down V like I was describing earlier and I middle mouse drag, if we click and hold middle 10:57.110 --> 11:05.120 mouse, this is going to snap to vertices you can see is trying to snap to the corners of the box or 11:05.150 --> 11:06.770 the vertices of the cylinder. 11:07.250 --> 11:10.670 So but we don't want the Senate to snap to it. 11:10.670 --> 11:12.560 We want the edge to snap to it. 11:12.890 --> 11:17.630 So we're going to need to change where this center pivot is. 11:18.200 --> 11:22.820 To do that, we can hold down D and now we get a different type of manipulator here. 11:23.240 --> 11:32.150 And if we hold down V while we're holding down D, we can also snap the pivot to avert a C without the 11:32.150 --> 11:35.120 object moving because we're just changing where the pivot is now. 11:35.450 --> 11:38.090 So if I let go of both now we get the regular manipulator. 11:38.360 --> 11:42.790 If this doesn't come back, you can hit W to make sure that pops back to the B, the manipulator. 11:43.010 --> 11:45.110 So now we move this, the whole thing moves around. 11:45.920 --> 11:52.700 Now what we can do is go and hold down V and middle mouse drag and isolate the up value. 11:53.120 --> 11:56.030 So we're only going to go up and you can see it snapped upward. 11:56.360 --> 12:04.050 Now we can hold down the x axis and it will snap to the back side, which it seems like it has. 12:04.880 --> 12:07.970 So now we don't want this pivot here anymore. 12:07.970 --> 12:08.930 How do we get that back? 12:09.410 --> 12:10.310 That's not a big deal. 12:10.340 --> 12:14.840 We go to modify and we go down to center pivot. 12:15.500 --> 12:16.450 We click this. 12:16.460 --> 12:20.840 Now, the pivot is back in the center and we can move the pivot around later again if we want to. 12:21.260 --> 12:22.430 But now it's there. 12:22.610 --> 12:27.170 Also, remember, you can see that the axis here is yellow. 12:27.440 --> 12:32.240 So if I was to start middle mouse dragging, it's going to be isolated on this no matter what I do or 12:32.240 --> 12:34.850 where I move my mouse if it's middle mouse dragged. 12:35.210 --> 12:41.930 So, you know, just want to make sure that you understand how it's isolating these axes as you click 12:41.930 --> 12:42.200 them. 12:42.680 --> 12:46.820 That's one thing that, you know, stumps a lot of people when they're just starting out, like, why 12:46.820 --> 12:48.470 can I move this in a different axis? 12:48.770 --> 12:52.730 It's because we selected that one and now it's thinking ought to isolate that. 12:52.910 --> 12:54.980 So this looks very basic right now. 12:55.910 --> 13:01.870 But I want to give you a quick introduction into how to create things, manipulate them, snap thing. 13:02.060 --> 13:08.900 Around and in the next lesson, we're going to take this further and start adding details and learn 13:08.900 --> 13:11.600 a few more modeling tools inside of Maya. 13:11.870 --> 13:14.120 So thanks for watching and I'll see in the next lesson.