Intro to Maya: Lesson 2 / 10 - Shaping and positioning objects

This tutorial quickly shows you how to shape polygon objects in Component Mode, and move them around in Object Mode.

[Aniceghost]

Intro to Maya: Lesson 2 : how to create corona

[ohcrapitsxfox]

I’m trying to make a sword and the guard has a bit of a curve, so I’m trying to see what I can do.

[Fiberglass]

just ca off for a spliff to watch tNice tutorials then I'm back on boi

[anudissanayake]

Can't thank you enough! I will be using this tutorial guide in class. Just want to let you know that your work is helping many students to learn Maya.

[MayaTubers]

this material is very interesting for my beginners subscribers in Maya, I will recommend these videos to them. thanks and Hug 🤗

[yarugatyger]

I learned more in this than in 5 hours with my 3d art professor, I think he made things a lot more complicated as he took into account all the options maya gives you to do one thing.

[eb]

What does shaping and positioning objects mean and how do we do this
What does creating and positioning objects mean and how do we do this
Why to position an object or transform it as known in the biz use the tools in the toolbox and how do we do this
What does position and object and transform and biz mean
What are the green stuff around the ball thing
Why did white thing go left on square and circle got bigger
Why however no amount of transforming is going to change your sphere’s shape
What does amount
Why you said how do I make it look like this and what
Why for that you need to drill down into the components and how do you do this
What does drill down for into the objects components mean
What are components and object
Why which you can do by changing to component mode up here and where and why was red thing around those grey things on top left
What is component mode
How do we change to component
Why notice how the object turns blue and how and which
Why did circle have blue on it
What does notice mean
Why now you can use the same toolbox tools to transform individual components and how
What is toolbox tools and transform and individual components
Why thus changing the sphere’s shape
What are those yellow and red things coming out of ball
Why was top and bottom of ball getting longer and bumps came out of it
What are the stuff on left
Why a polygon object like this is made up of three types of components and what are they and why it showed ball
Why vertices edges and faces and what are these
What is polygon object and type
What are vertices edges and faces
What did circle go red
Why when you said vertices red thing showed and square red and when you said edges and faces
Why we can quickly swap between them by holding the right mouse button and how do we do this and why and selecting the desired component from the marking menu and how do we do this
What is selecting and desired component and marking menu
What is right mouse button
Why does it show edge and vertex and vertex face and face and multi and UV and object mode and what do all these mean
Why did the top of white thing turn blue
Why we can even shift click multiple components to transform them at once and how do we do this
What does shift click and multiple mean
Why does it show shift ^ green + and blue thing on top white thing
Why or maruqee select them by dragging the mouse and how do we do this
What does maruqee select mean
Why did it show shift ^ green + and blue top thing again
Why from the marking menu you can also return to object mode and how do we do this and why which turns the object green again. This lets us go back to transforming it as a whole and how and what does this mean
What is object mode and return and marking menu
Why and then you can go back to component mode when you want to change its shape again and how do we do this
Why does it show shift + blue at top
What is the green thing going up and blue going right and red going left
Why just remember object mode to transform and what do you mean by this and component mode to change shape
What is component mode
Why now that we got the basics down you think it’s time to build our first model
What does got the basics down mean
Why did the thing move when you said transform

[IttzAiza]

my lecturer's class was so boring that i almost fell alsleep. thank you for making it short and simple

[Selinak]

Hello, thanks for the video.
I have a question. After we changed to the component mode you were able to make a click on a point at 0:47. I cant do this...what am I doing wrong?

[ZygoteD]

This is such an incredibly useful series! We do similar videos but for 3D medical models.

[lps]

How did you select the center of that sphere to stretch it?

[haileyw]

is everything in this series still applicable to Maya 2020???

[wRolo]

Hi,
Thank you for the video but i would like to ask that i can only shrink from points and not expand for some reason. (making spikes on sphere doesnt work)

[Autodesk_Maya]

--> Next Lesson: Building your first 3D model

[SavoirPourTous]

Thank you, your videos are excellent, how to you create objects with real measure ?

Thanks for your answer,

[heatherbennett-skbu]

Hi i am trying to move the floor boards to be fully aligned with the base but it all keeps moving as one object? what can i do to stop that happening please and keep the shapes seperate?

[carriecoppenhall]

component mode isn't working, and won't let me select anything on my sphere. Any advice?

[hassamshaikh]

Not enough information was provided, you should add more about the transformation controls that are in a part of gizmo

[BigSavageG]

Blender is much better at everything. Workflow in this program is cancer

[Aniceghost]

wait...

the yellow one is corona 0:02