How to model Bicycle in Maya

Elvinas

I was looking in google for answers but there are no completed tutorial for creating a bicycle in Maya. Can you give some steps or tips? That's quit a challenge for me to model such thing, I tried couple of times, but it's very tricky.

pigart

Try you best to do it on your own and then post your progress here so that we can tell you what's right/what to change.

GRAT0R

hey I don't use maya but why don't you start blocking up your bike's shape with primitives like cylinders. It could be a good starting point

Tectonic

yeah I second the advice of a blockout. also once you have cylingers in place and it looks good you can boolean them together. make sure to use good reference. find a specific model of bike and get a clear side view and front view, and if you can find it, a top view. bring your reference into maya and match the proportions exactly with orthographic view.

BeardedMike

You could find some dirtbike/motorcycle tutorials that would deal with many of the same basic modeling challenges as a bicycle. Plus you usually learn more adapting a tutorial than following step by step Also if it just deals with modeling, you can usually adapt a maya/max/c4d/modo/blender you just have to figure out where the tools are in the program you are using.

WarrenM

xChris

This right here !

WarrenM wrote: »

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But first you have to create the sphere out of a utah-teapot...

And now the serious part of this post: Even if you use maya for modeling you could easily adapt other tutorials. Even if they are not made for maya. The principles are the same.
Here on polycount are a lot posts like "how do i model this in *place your 3d software here*". These posts only indicate that these people need some more overall practice. All applications basically have the same functions and you can adapt them.

mrgesy

Maybe model a bicycle without a tutorial? Think like an engineer, a bicycle is made up of cylinders and circles...look at reference and create piece by piece, starting from the frame.