It looks like they're just extruding the edges of a polygon, not an actual curve. You can do that in maya pretty much the same way, make a polygon of the eye shape and then extrude the edges out. Then delete the original polygon.
I was watching this video showing a character modeling timelapse in blender. [ame=" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9UZYTwwQcc"]Blenderella: Timelapse - YouTube[/ame] Watch closely at 00:34. A circle curve/polyline is used to outline the eyes,then extruded in polygonal form directly,same thing with the lips. I have always…
Blender can create geometry from curves, I remember that you could use a scale tool or somesuch to effectively turn it into a polygon tube. I remember connected curves to create branches being quite elegant too.
@Athomield ---Its a circular curve which probably converts to polygons when u hit the extrude button or a polyline connected by vertices.This begs the question-What the hell is Autodesk waiting for?Why have they not added this?The date of that video is Aug 2011.Almost 2 years back.Has anyone noticed how certain things u…