Easy 3D Character Modeling in Maya - Part 1 - Body

In this tutorial, I will go over my easy character modeling process in Maya. This episode will focus on the body; feet and hands will be covered in part 2. If you would like to follow along, you can download this Maya project file on my Patreon page. You can support my channel on YouTube or Patreon.

[cleodoesstuff]

this 20 minute turorial taught me more than my six month university course that was a part of my degree. I'm both incredibly grateful and slightly horrified

[Escapestarlight]

I am so grateful for this tutorial. I've been particularly stuck on how to handle the shoulder/armpit area for ages and you broke it down in a way that finally made it click for me! I just did a test rig to see how it bends and it's already a vast improvement over my previous attempts. Thanks so much for your work with this tutorial 👍

[justfun]

This is the simplest way for a human body I have seen so far. You are incredibly good.

[mcandler_the_unscottish]

Nice. I am modeling my cartoon character in Blender. I just needed a simple workflow for the body and this is perfect. I know the tools in Blender so following you to achieve the same result was easy. Thank you.

[moonchild]

Thank you so much. This is the best video on modeling a human I've seen so far. I remember watching this video and following through when I modeled my very first character. And 1 month later, here I am rewatching this while modeling my 2nd character. This video is so good and straightforward, don't have to skip a single second. Incredible. Good job!!!

[happilyeveralien]

I’m only halfway through and this is such a good tutorial! Get me excited to try modeling my own. Love the soft music too, gives a calming vibe.

[MrJals]

OMG thank you so much for this. I'm currently going a video game program and I passed 3D modeling a couple years back so I didn't have to do any during first semester but now I actually need it for the 2nd semester and I was so rusty. This video helped me alot to get back on track, thanks alot!

[ohvxzby]

Followed this as a complete newby while using chatgpt to quickly find out the shortcuts and workflow that you were doing. Damn I learnt a lot in just 20 minutes. Fantastic tutorial

[carlosclarke]

I have never modeled a full character. I believe you tutorials are going to help me to complete that and take me a very far way in modeling.

[YolandaVisser-emyw]

Excellend tutorial. This has been so helpful and taught me so much. Your process is amazing and the way you explain everything is super helpful. Would love to see your tuturial of hair.

[enoki_mushroom]

Thank you for this tutorial! Very helpful and you explain things in a way thats makes it understandable and easy to follow

[Yazuria_]

You're amazing at explaining what seems to be difficult! I've stumbled on this video to resolve some topology issues because I always have trouble with modeling organic in maya, this helps so much!! Will def be following <3

[Scarfed.]

I do thank you for the tutorials! I'm just starting my college course and this is the best that I've ever been explained towards first using Maya.. except from im stuck in bean mode and don't know the button to go back Edit: nevermind I just looked up maya shortcuts

[pdp_gp]

Hello, Alex. Thank you so much for the tutorial and time you spent creating it. With your help I could successfully finish the 1st part, now moving onto the second. Thank you a lot one more time!

[lordaromat]

this is way better than my college no cap

[natashageorginacarrilloalv]

Hola, mucho gusto. Me explico mejor en español, así que lo escribiré en este idioma, espero que les sirva. Si van a modelar para riggear después, les recomiendo hacer 3 divisiones (2 extrusiones aparte del original) en las articulaciones para que sea más difícil que se rompa el modelo. Me lo han enseñado así y me ha funcionado

[thisjustin]

my man! thank you. moving from Blender to maya and this helped with shortcuts.

[sedaterol]

you are amazing dude, keep doing this and upload more

[theemmisaryfrombeyond]

One thing that tripped me up is when you said to subdivide. I didn't realize there were two ways to do that, so rather than click smooth, I'd hit subdivide and my person would look blocky. Other than that this has been great!

[tahmidtanvir]

This is soo good man. Easy to understand