Maya bodybuilder CHARACTER MODELING tutorial
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
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This Maya tutorial covers the body modeling process from start to finish. I show the steps I take to build the body from simple primitives, and the specific settings and tools I use to make sure everything fits together seamlessly!
The end result is a well topologized model that will be perfect for animation or sculpting. And I focus on anatomy as well, showing how to match my character to photo reference using image planes.
This tutorial should be good for beginners to Maya looking to learn how to actually create something cool, once you are familiar with the basic tools and interface.
I'm James Taylor - I've worked on million-selling video games like Mortal Kombat and NBA Ballers; I've been a web designer, a cel animator, a visual effects artist, and everything in between. Currently I am a professor working in the Chicago area. This video shows the workflow I use to create all my professional character models!
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Creates a tutorial on a complicated and time consuming procedure.
Doesn't spend the first five minutes greeting and gets right into it.
10/10, keeping this one.
Also subscribing.
Cheesypotato57 ha ha. exactly, thank you!
personal ref:
• 0:15 Torso - cylinder 8axis x 4height
• 1:06 Arm - cylinder 6axis x 6height
• 1:50 Leg - cylinder 8axis x 6height
• 11:11 Hand - cube 1width x 2height x 4depth
• 15:08 Foot - cube 2width x 1height x 3depth
For T-Pose:
Hand- cube 2 width x 1 height x 4 depth
i apprieciate this
I seriously cannot believe this whole body tutorial is done in 18min...
Thanks so much! This is like a savior for my project
bro casually saved my scolarship thank you james taylor you deserve more recognition
This makes it look sooooo easy.
I'm about to start doing Maya work in school. Was really intimidated, but this is encouraging.
Good to hear, thanks!
wow. you're so luckly, that you get to go to school to learn this. I go to school. to understand forgin langauges, and poltiis, and have to go and spend 5 hours trying to make a base mesh for a human, only to discovered that my edge flow is complety wrong.
Hey, how do you get the wire frame with the translucent shading?
I'm doing 3d modeling and using Maya for competition at school
I untick the "smooth shade all" in the view bay to get it (it looks like that is what he is doing too). Can also make a transparent texture.
James,
Excellent tutorial on Character modeling ! Respect
Mike
Mike Hermes thanks Mike!
Thalaivaaaa…….
@@tkgameartist983 Thalaiva Mike
Glad to see a familiar/similar channel comment from years back leaving compliments.,
This is the best and most informative modeling video I have ever seen. Teach me sensei.
Pjiggy thank you! Stay tuned for more. :)
James Taylor I am dead serious! From Digital tutors to CG tuts, to Lynda, to ANY OTHER UA-cam video. I got halfway through and subscribed. I can't wait for what's next!
Pjiggy wow! Thank you!
James Taylor How do you make the cylinder see through like that? It'd help a lot
BioRhythmicAnims turn on xray mode in the viewport. There is a button at the far right of the viewport toolbar that toggles it.
Even in 2019, you are a godsend. Thank you so much for this. As the others have said, I love how you jump straight into it, wasting no time with fluff and nothingburger intros. Just right into it. Really easy to follow along! This may or may not be coming from an animation student who left an assignment to the last minute :D
Thanks, glad to hear this is still helpful! 💪
This has to be the easiest to follow tutorial on how to create a basic character, well done!
Aleteh glad to hear it, thank you!
Character Modeling - the most satisfying thing to ever make you want to blow your brains out
+Cazeoj ha ha ha
You should try rigging and pain weights...
i hear you on that one, this 19 min video will take a noob like my self at least 16 hours to finish. i play the video in slow mo so i can try to copy the video, but you still run into some issues.
You might be right Marcus, but if you practice and make 2,3,4 bodies, the whole process is going to be way faster! Ultimately after a few years you will be able to create the whole character in 20 minutes or so :). And as predecessor said, rigging and weighting, especially the face region is so painful!
Polydust ohh wow.. time is of the essence and two to three years is a long stretch. but practice makes perfect I wish I started all this stuff when I was 20 years old, but now I'm 31 and hopefully finishing College in December with a bachelor degree and 3D animation. I'm working on making a space scene involved in my spaceship going around three planets. I need to make a character a spaceship ,a space scene three planets . im using Uranus, Saturn and Earth. I need to make a interior cockpit area of the spaceship also. this project would be my final project of my whole College curriculum and it's taking a very long. I basically have to look for tutorials on everything which are very very hard to find for my specific project . I basically have to make stuff up and how crappy it may look it will have to do . I have a full-time job, full time school it's just way too much to spend hours and hours on this project a few times a week and only getting very very little done if anything. the teachers asked if I made any progress I tell them I'm up for over 12 hours and go very little done. it just takes forever when you're learning from tutorials it's too much to ask for personal help you they would need to be there all day long with you. but I guess it is what it is and I have to deal with it and just keep doing it. I don't know how I'm going to pull off getting some type of internship in the summer without any major skills I'll just have to look at some good tutorials and make some things from there and hopefully get and internship to fill up on the college requirements.
i go to full sail which has accelerated classes that are condensed in a month. you just went through my entire character design and creation class in under 20 minutes. Amazing. and I learned more from this than my class
Leon Breakre glad to hear it! Do me a favor and let Martin Murphy know, he and I are old colleagues. :)
Sorry But i've never met him
New student to 3-D animation, and this video helped me make human models 100% better than my previous ones, this is great kudos to you man
Saronska glad to hear it!
Your voice makes this tutorial pleasant for listening, thank you for all great skills!
Marijana Culibrk thank you!
I must say.. this is absolutely fantastic, and is the best tutorial I have seen for character modelling.
Just perfect, I will work on my character using the stuff I am learning from your videos, and I will absolutely recommend your videos to my fellow artists, students and instructors alike.
Thank you so very much.
Kareem Ismael thank you, I appreciate it!
dude, you model just like the guy from digital tutors. bridge tool, multi cut tool, creating bevels, adding subdivisions, removing subdivisions. you make it look easy since the video goes so fast. bravo.
Eversio thanks!
This is the single best character topology tutorial series I've seen on UA-cam.
thanks!
I've been looking so long for a great tutorial/teacher for autodesk maya. I'm wanting to make my own animations, and all the tutorials I've watched have not been up to par! They are either too fast and confusing, or are too slow and long to follow completely (I hope that makes sense xD at least i know what I mean right?) Anyways! You have the best maya tutorials I have ever seen! This is the most helpful and easy to understand video I've found! You are my favourite youtuber now! And I am going to go an all-night vid watching spree learning everything I can from you. I mean, you made it so simple! basic shapes, simple sculpting, connecting and bridging! I understand now! I'm so excited! YOU just opened the doors for me in to animating! I'm so excited to finally be able to understand FULLY how to start my project and do it RIGHT! =D Thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!
WhiteZebraStripes I know the feeling that burst of inspiration gives, it is very motivating. Glad I could help! :)
wow this is super professional, i learn a lot from this video, thank you so much.
Thank You So Much For Showing Me How To Model A Human In Maya Professor Taylor!
Oh god how did I miss this video. You've managed to simplify something I've spent weeks trying to even slightly figure out to a mere 18 minutes. Praise to you kind sir for uploading this
Thanks for this awesome tutorials! Now I know what mistakes I been doing all this time. Wish I would of find your videos sooner.
Mirian Lizeth Delgado I'm happy my videos are that helpful. Remember art is a process, not a race. :)
Thanks James Taylor. I been practicing non stop on my 3D Human model sadly I still having trouble especially when is come with uvs. Is there a way to make uvs less stressful when finishing something big?
Lastly, are you by any chance doing more tutorials of modeling different things or creatures on Maya?
Mirian Lizeth Delgado make sure to watch my UV Mapping video. The newer versions of Maya make unwrapping much easier, I don't even worry about UVing anymore.
I will be doing more modeling tutorials soon, the next big project I have lined up is a female anatomy study, similar to this video here.
I sure will and thank you very much!
actually even at this speed i find this tutorial great , and the comments are really useful , but i dont think it is for beginners maybe intermediate , anyway it is a really great tutorial so keep up the good job and keep making tutorials so that poor guys that cant afford graphic courses or books (like me :D) could benefit from u :D ,thank u again jimmy
the way you go about modelling just make me sit and smile. your methods just simple and straight forward. more money to ur bank account sir
thank you!
you know whats amazing about this video. unlike other videos. the stuff he used are pretty much possible on most 3d modeling programs. explains everything deeply without forgetting to organize the topology. 10/10
I love this character modeling tutorial. Out of all the other tutorials this one makes the most sense, not too complicated and quick and effective.
MANNNNN you realllyyyy inspire me.THANK YOU YOU SO MUCH.i can't be more thankful.WOWWWW..i will check out all your videos
I hate learning character modeling but today after 2 years I saw your video and I have made 5 character via using your method. It made character modeling for me so easy. God bless your buddy.
Love to hear it! Cheers.
The way you've done the shoulders is simply brilliant. Great deformation. This is the way I will begin my models from now on. Thank you!
Kelin Wheeler thank you! I put a lot of thought into making the layout work, while still being relatively easy to build. Happy to hear it paid off!
you have amazing teaching skills, congrats =) You deserve to earn lot of money
Renan Oliveira thank you! I hope it works out that way. :D
Second that!
This is wow to me and a huge deliverance from wasting time. Thank you
This man accomplished what took me weeks in the span of 20 minutes. My god
Well, this video IS sped up. And I've been doing this for years! Keep practicing.
I wish you taught hands on classes because I'd be first in line. I'm learning Maya and out of all the videos I have watched yours are the ones I seem to take notes on and try to apply while teaching myself. Thank you for taking the time to post all of these.
Mike Hawk thank you! I will definitely start doing workshops in the future, it is just a lot of work goes into preparing one. I really feel the one on one feedback is the most important part of the process.
I learning Maya but human modeling is very difficult thing... only making face takes several hours ;ㅅ;
but I learn hard... I want to be used to this modeling. good video!! subscribed!
Keep at it!
its hard for real,,but to create the human model a suggest you to find free software called make human..it made everything easy,, and you can export it to maya with bones or clothes if you like
thanks! but I must study more... maybe that program will be used after
+김은지 gd luck
one of the best tutorials i've seen, really appreciate this (:
+Cesar Jimenez thank you!
Man, you're a hero!!! You made it so simple while people like me have a head shake to create a nice 'topology for animation' which connects everything well. Thank you so much for sharing this!
Diego Machado my pleasure, glad it helped you!
This rocked! A few things i wish you would’ve covered when you were moving a little quickly but you can’t cover everything. Great tutorial.
Youve just saved my life! I'm on a quest to creating a demo reel. I've been trying so hard to figure out how I'm going to even start the execution of this idea. But I think I just found the answers to all my woes. Thank you! Thank you so much!
You've got a new subscriber buddy.
Same
same
Kage Karma yes!! James Taylor is a great instructor!!
The tutorials are and the ideas are said clearly. Love the effort you put into them!
wow i thought character modeling is very hard but for a try i searched for tutorial videos and i am lucky to choose this one. thanks for simple and perfect tutorial i am very satisfied with this...
Gaxx Karthick glad to hear it, thanks!
The simpliest and most straightforward body modelling tut i ever found in three year surfing the web! Thanks a lot James. I've also bought your reference pics...well done!
Stefano Critelli thanks Stefano! I appreciate the support. :)
Wait, what happened when you were creating the toes? You had way more edges there, and then your video cut to a whole different toe set up.
Did you ever figure this out?
@@GRizzle206 most likely just pressed 2 or 3 on the keyboard
@@chalfrey8924 Ah thanks!
Awsome work, I never seen a video like this before... Helped me so much! Thanks :D
OpenForGames happy it helped! :D
James Taylor Do you have some tutorial about how to make and apply textures in this character?
OpenForGames I am actually working on it right now! Hopefully it will be out in the next couple of weeks.
I'll be waiting anxious. :D
That is one of the simple process to create a human body I've ever seen in UA-cam! Many many thanks for this & hope we'll get more like this. Thanks once again!
Banibrata Mukherjee thank you!
Best character modeling tutorial on UA-cam.
Fantastic workflow!!!
Must try it...
14:05
I didn't know that this was allowed! :-)
Where did you get the pitcure for the body reference?
+Ashton Babtiste It is a paid resource site but www.3d.sk/ is a great place for reference of just about any type. This site contains artistic nudity so beware.
+Ashton Babtiste just seach google images.
Quick, easy to follow and very informative. I could easily mold your instructions to my own reference images in order to get the character i was looking for.
This video was to the quality of a professional, paid for tutorial. Did not expect to find something this great on youtube. You are a legend James
+dynat1 thanks!
wow the hands in this video compared to your earlier one is way easier to understand. Thanks!
so good.
+Jeehoondevil thank you!
+James Taylor Can i GET SOME OF THAT references. but me don't have any money to pay for IT. plss JUST for free and to study how it WORK.. this is my EMAIL. michaelmusahari281997@gmail.com
Thankyou! This is very helpfull
***** what? I dont want to be HOT at all, its just for a 3D animation wtf o_o r you talking about
Maya 525 what the f is happeneing here.
NalithYsis i dont fucking know aswell
This is youtube not youporn , i guess you typed the title wrong
Amazing. As an international student, your clear and comprehensive pronunciation helps me understand
way better. Thank you so much, sir. I subscribed naturally.
Thanks Mr. Taylor for making some awesome tutorials. I appreciate it.
another new and very impressive method :)
SacrethHD thank you!
Take a drink every time he says 'anatomy' or 'topology'
Haha, it means it's super important, isn't it :P ?
yep
I am sooooooo glad I came across this video first - trying to get back into modeling and I was never taught how to plan your verts properly without triangles XD Thank you!!!
Wow, awesome tutorial. - I always wondered how exactly does one get rid of triangles/ngons in these areas and all I found was hard to understand theoretical graphics I had big trouble to apply - the way you explain and show how it's done is so much easier to follow and understand. Plus you're not one of those sleeping pills but really fast paced and straight forward.
Anakiana thanks, glad to hear the video is helpful!
So who else was generous when making this model?
i was watching this video while trying to do my own model while listening to music, but then, it was 10 times easier when i hear you without music
dude you know your shit, best character models out of a 3d app i've seen
jumping jesus thanks man!
I am new to 3D modeling and I'm doing college classes for learning it, this video really helps with the assignment I'm which is making my own bodybuilder model XD.
I have to agree with Renan Oliveira, this was probably the best video I've seen on the subject. I love that it was fast paced but discussed in away that I could easily comprehend what was going on. I gathered so much information and my minor case of A.D.D. didn't make me go, "Oh look at the squirrel o.O." Thank you for sharing!
John Cruz ha ha I have ADD when it comes to watching tutorials too, glad to hear I hit the mark. :)
This Videos are really great! You can learn about optimised workflow and good topology very quickly, even if you already have modeled a character... which you dont find that often, especially not this short, clearly spoken, well illustrated and to the point.
+Harry Sanders thank you!
this is by far the most straight forward , simple yet full of details of tutorial on body modeling! Now i am so interested to create one :)
***** thanks! I say give it a shot, the best way for an artist to learn is practice.
Thanks for this. I usually work with CAD, so it's interesting to see how organic structures are modeled. It's really quite a different workflow.
One of the best character modeling tutorials i've watched. You've got me pumped! Can't wait to get out of work and work alongside this tonight!!!
SolidSnake120 cool! That is what I like to hear! I know that exact feeling.
This is a wonderful tutorial and completely changes how I used to model in school. The techniques are sound and you made it easy to understand why you model this way.
pesmerga48 thank you!
you are fantastic. truely, this is the best body modeling tutorial i've ever seen. and I've had Lynda subscriptions. I can't wait for the head tutorial. thank you so much for doing this.
Jesse Lauria wow, thank you! :) the head vid will be up in the next week or so.
Man... this tutorial was so good. i have to say it in spanish: sos un GENIO! (you are a genius!) the speed, the clarity of the voice, and the simplicity while every detail is explained, everything. Good work!
At 5:17, you mention you use "insert edge loop" to add an edge ring to the chest when you're fixing the anatomy of the shoulder. But you don't, you use "connect components" on 3 specific edges to get the effect you see in the video. Using "insert edge loop" on those edges gets you a completely different result. I'm sure this is addressed in the extended cut version of this video, which admittedly, I haven't seen, and this tutorial is also 6 years old at this point, but I still felt it was worth pointing out for anybody looking at this tutorial today.
Thanks for posting this video! They way you took the 5 sided poly and tries and created quads out of them was amazing lol. I have had trouble with trying to figure out how to get rid of tries and n-gons
You are like the Bob Ross of modeling, man. I could actually just put this on headphones and listen to it, lol... Having a ton of fun following this, and am learning a lot! Your techniques are really clicking with me.
thanks, that is high praise, he is great to watch
You're just a PRO... NO doubt about it...
Please make more tutorials on male muscular
Best ever and simplest character modelling tutorial I found on You-tube. Shorts and understandable, Thank u for increasing my skillset..
Finally found my primary tutorial channel Thank you sir but please keep sharing your knowledge with us Thanks again!!
Oh my goodness, I took a Maya class in highschool and this video taught how to create a figure quickly and effectively compared to that one semester class. OMG.
I’m currently making nightwing and this makes more sense then a cube
Yeah, your talent and excellence in teaching shows through in every video you make. You're a natural! Keep it up, James!
keola570 thank you! :D
For anyone having difficulty when it comes to the duplicate special tool: Your pivot point needs to be in the centre which you can do by going into a transform mode and pressing D then moving it to the centre. Also, if your mirrored object isn't being automatically modified when you modify the other side it's because you need to choose "instance" in the geometry type section of the duplicate special tool.
I'm french and, this is the best tutorial video i have ever seen *.*
You have an incredible talent :)
KebabMan thank you! :)
This video is extremely helpful for pretty much any 3D software. I don't use Maya, but this video sure as hell helped me a lot. Cheers dude.
im not a very good modeler but this helps alot for anyone strugiling think of your whole body as a cylander every body part is a cylinder put together to make its shape
This is one of the best modeling tutorials I have seen! Thanks, this should help with my school work!.
Alan Hernandez Morales thanks, I'm glad to hear it helped!
Such an excellent tutorial and I was able to follow the entire time despite not learning this kind of workflow in class. Thank you so much!
thank you sir!! your tutorial is very helpful. i am an aspiring 3d artist and i recommended this to all my friends as well.
Great video. I learned a whole lot! Thank you so much! You're really talented I'm sure you know!
Very Good! As a 3d major student this is now my favorite to go to video! So happy you have done hands and feet in the same video
Asad Sheykhov great! I'm happy it's that helpful!
My god, you are brilliant. This was so fast paced and smooth...understandable.
Kinz Kinzard thank you! :D
Remembers me of Bob Ross. Making high skilled art look simple. Subscribed.
Thank you!
Omg thank you! Im starting my demo and I needed a great tutorial to help me building characters from a short time! You take me off lot of nervosity!
Tricia Loren happy to help. :)
You have an excellent voice, which is incidental, but the tutorial content is stellar. Very nice work indeed.
low poly and such output, that's some brilliant work!
+Akshay Panchal thank you!
best character modelling tutorial i've seen so far.... thanks a lot
hope more tutorials are on the way....
praveen A P thank you!
Your description is very detailed and your model is very clean Thank you so much for this video. It helped a lot.
Wow so encouraging for those trying to get into animation character designing.
Good to hear!
You have a very expressive voice. I bet you make a great storyteller, as well as a 3d artist. Thank you so much for the video!
Leo Dela Cruz thanks Leo! :)
you sir are awesome, thank you so much, I can model half @$$ but because of your videos I feel a lot more comfortable!! Thanks so much
Timothy Sailer cool, good to hear it. Keep going!
Thanks so much James !!! Have been eager to get into animation and I decided on Maya, this video is awesome Thanks again for your time !
This made making a pixar styled body WAY easier for a beginner. Thank you very much!
Awesome tutorial! I recommend displaying the hot keys your using, I have no idea how to perform some of the selections your doing. Like being able to drag your mouse across a plane and only select the surface subdivisions or selecting an entire edge row at once. Looking up how to do those things on the internet is so hard to find sometimes through the wordiness of the search. But this is very very helpful, thank you. :)
Marjorie Pierce see here for some keyboard shortcuts: @maya-tips-for-beginners/ . The ones you mentioned are selection shortcuts, they are performed by holding down shift, alt, or ctrl (or combinations) while selecting.
This is very very good tutorial...
I did not find any good tutorial in blender for character modeling then I watch this and use it's concept I really able to make a character .... Thank you sir 🙏🙏