RyanTaylor3D

yuhMEE

Hi all. uhm so im a beginner at maya. so i was searching up some video tutorials and i founf this guy on Youtube/ His channel name is RyanTaylor3D. Ive been watching some of his videos and can anyone tell me if his tutprials seem useful and be wrth watching?

gamedev

Well are you learning anything?

yuhMEE

well yes.
but i kinda wanna know how the professionals learned to make theyre first models.
ibecause i really ned something to start off..

glib

My best advice would be to watch and read EVERYTHING you can find. Even watching a simple tutorial you can sometimes find a nice little gem of an idea to improve your workflow, or even just a new way of thinking about things.

Also you need to be making mistakes on your own, the worst thing you can do is be too afraid to screw things up and never take chances to see if something will work. Save often (turn on incremental saves in the save options so that you can go back a couple saves if need be) and experiment. Breaking stuff and learning to fix it teaches you a ton.

PolyHertz

Digital Tutors has some great Maya tutorials, learned a lot by watching them. Beyond that just play around with it and if you get stumped their's always the documentation that comes with it, and the net to answer most questions.

As for 'how the professionals learned to make their first models', most just learned by trial and error sense the wealth of info that's on the net today wasn't always around. However you might want to check out the 'Joan of Arc' tutorial, as its probably one of the most famous tutorials for beginning modelers out their.

BuCC

I'd recommend gnomon workshops totorials. Not that I'm pro - far from it, but I've learnt a lot from them. I can't stand some of the digital tutors vids since the narrator has a really annoying voice (I think he talks through his nose).

BuCC - slightly redicilous.

yuhMEE

oh wow. thank you for the post. and i found Gnomon's tutorial really useful!!
thank you!

RyanTaylor3D

Hey guys!

Crazy to find this thread on a whim. Anyways, my tutorials for Maya are aimed at beginners of 3D as well as Maya. There are some exceptions to that in the Xnormal videos and Zbrush stuff but as stated I think it would be best to get your information from MANY different sources. If all the information aligns you have a pretty good chance it's right. What I teach is mainly theory and just showing you the tools.

What may be useful to some may not be useful to others. I wouldn't expect that my tutorials would be all that useful to a seasoned professional. Having said that, I've been working in video games for 2 years and feature film and commercials for 1.

Any questions just ask away here or on my YouTube channel. Be sure to mention you're from Polycount so I have a frame of reference. Thanks!

-Ryan

http://www.youtube.com/ryantaylor3d