Maya: NURBS Modeling Basics

These days we are so rooted in the polygon modeling world that we sometimes forget about the NURBS world – which is, by all respects, more elegant because it lets you create mathematically lightweight complex SMOOTH surfaces. The car industry cannot do anything without NURBS, and game designers need NURBS as starting points before converting them to Polygons.

In this tutorial I demonstrate the four fundamental methods for creating smooth surfaces from curves. Revolve, Loft, Extrude and Birail.

And for an in-depth NURBS modeling course from beginner to expert, check out udemy or skillshare:

[Dragons_aregreat]

Still helping ppl 6 years later thank you!

[shizyninjarocks]

Your videos are elegant as a nurb curve. Thank you.

[vuankhanhbeo]

Thanks sir. The clip is really on point and easy to understand.

[sabrinaflipse]

thank you so much! ive been fighting with nurbs my whole summer session of my 3d class :) ive subscribed bc your voice is so calm and reminds of the great radio guy Karl Haas who had a program called Adventures in Music :) and bc your explanations are so great! thanks!

[junyanxiang]

Very helpful and easy understanding, thanks for sharing!

[kioly_ah]

i was using NURBS made a head and car in 2005, cant imagine that a long time ago.
in that time period, SubD modeling pops up.

[phamleon]

Exactly what i need. Thank you for great tutorial

[alejandromavarez]

You really like that smooth wonderful surface boi

[siamaksaadatpur]

Hi
Thank's for sharing
It's very helpful

[simpernchong]

For manufacturing and industrial design, NURBS is indispensible.

[Khawater]

Very Useful Thank you so much!!! But I have a little question how do you get rid of the blue (curve) lines later ??

[gyulyia]

Hello, I love your tutorials. I would like to ask you if you could make a parametrical tutorial. Like zaha hadid aesthetique.

[mendezcreative]

great tutorial but still have a question. How do you control surface continuity when attaching 2 surfaces. This is something that would be useful control for automotive modeling.

[VictoriaFilmsgroup]

fuck man finding someone who knows how to teach 3d is like finding gold in 1929

[vigneshsrinivasan]

when I hold press C the snapping doesn't pop out :( I couldnot proceed further.

[nezamani_]

So sir it is the same as a modeling in Autodesk Alias?

[icefish]

Very, very helpful, but the swallowing noises don't help with concentrating xD