CG Character Development Session 19

Session Review

Connecting both ends using the Append to Polygon tool

During this afternoon session I learned a new trick as I continued to fix my characters box crotch if you select a vertice in vertex mode and hold the V key on your keyboard and drag it to another vertex using the move tool on the model then both vertices will align correctly.

Furthermore I learned that the maya equivalent to the bridge tool from 3d studio max is called the Append to Polygon Tool which consists of you selecting the one edge of the model and clicking on the another edge to create a polygon that connects them together in this case.

Extruding the legs for the character was interesting since I also discovered in order to straighten the extruded edges make sure the edge of the object is selected and use your scale tool and pull the green box until it touches the cyan box and continue doing that until the edge appears to be straight.

Shaping the feet

Overall I have learned allot of new tricks and useful tools for instance during the tutorial the instructor wanted to remove extra edges on the model but in order to successfully achieve that he used the split polygon tool to create edges and then he used the Delete Edge/Vertex tool to remove them.

When I used this toll to remove the extra edges on my imported 3ds max human model I unsuccessfully removed because the toll i used incorrectly can cut out large sections of your model.

By Sebastian Jones

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