Modeling in Maya

Modeling in Maya

1. Added Reference images and moved them on the axis's.

2. Creating the body of the ship.

3. Shaping the body by moving points and extruding the wings.

4. At this point I have majoring messed something up when extruding the wings. The lines got messed up and I have completely restarted twice.

5. After downloading scene 16 to fix my disaster of a ship, I finished extruding the wings, cut geometry and bridged, used the bend tool on the wings, and extruded and shaped the lower wings as well.

6. On this step I extruded the top part of the ship

7. Created the Canopy using extrusions and the bevel tool.

8. Extruded the Thruster compartment shown both in edged form and smooth.

9.Added the front guard to the ship. Mine turned out super wacko looking and I couldn't get the geometry to work because of the squared off edges. Every time I messed around with it, it looked even more strange so I downloaded his file to clean it up.

10. Completed front guard piece and mirrored piece for other side.

11.Added a wing piece for visual interest.

12.Created the back vents using the extrude and duplicate tools.

13. Created a pipe using the curve tools. 

14. Created a shape with closed curves by modifying a circle, adding thickness, and a bevel edge.

15. Modeling the Thrusters

16. I added support edges with the multi cut tool to make squared smooth edges.

No smoothing, but lines are added.

Level 3 smoothing

17. Created the gun base

18. I modeled the main gun body

19. I created the radial gun barrels and attached to ship.

20. I named all my files and finished duplicating everything so that each side is a mirror image. At this point I am going to download his file to start the rendering process so that everything is correct.

21. Finished space ship with imported environment.