Create a New York Subway Entrance in Maya – Day 1: Modeling

on Aug 21st 2009 with 17 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Software: Autodesk Maya
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Estimated Completion Time: 2 Hours
This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series New York Subway Entrance

In this three part video tutorial series, lead video game artist, Ron Davey, will walk you through the process of creating a game-ready environment prop in Autodesk Maya, and also share his personal techniques and thoughts along the way.

In this, the first part of the series, Ron will begin by modeling the low-poly mesh from reference, and then move on to creating the high-poly source for the purpose of baking normal maps.

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Ron Davey has been working in the video game industry for over 8 years. He's currently a lead environment artist at Digital Extremes in Canada, and he also maintains a freelance illustration career in his spare time. You can view his work at www.brokepencil.com.  

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  • ABO

    willll you be showing the txture procedures too??

  • http://www.behance.net/Modisana Modisana

    Oh thank God! …. Maya tutorials!

  • Mads

    Great tutorial :)
    You sounded a bit sick though, hope that cough goes away ^^

  • http://arthur-bayard.over-blog.com cody

    Great one, thanks :D

    More Maya tuts please !

  • hicham

    yes mor tuts plz

  • ZOMG!!1!1! a New York Subway Entrance!!!

    This morning I woke up and I said: “Oh god i need a New York Subway Entrance with poly extrude, pieces in pieces like matrioska and so on…”

    if u want to do an hellgate london sequel…

  • AzteKpr1de

    Nice tutorial, Ron. Finally a Maya tut!

  • Awhb

    sweet tutorial man. the more maya tutorials the better.

  • sdas

    MAYA FTW!!!

  • nagarjuna

    how to create a man in maya 2009

  • rohit mhamunkar

    o… Nice tutorial,he more maya tutorials the better.
    yes mor tuts plz

  • Hank Moody

    short question fellas…

    I made this steps nearly correct i think, and in the step where i should rename the objects i got a lot of stuff more in the object list.
    there are things like polysurface#-transform# and pCube#-transform#

    wich failure did I?

  • Mark

    I would love to find the script for duplicat extract, it would be a god send to speed up my pipeline, could you point me in the right direction please. Great tutorial, thanks

  • Michael

    Fantastic tutorial. Like Mark i’d also like to request the dupe extract script you used. Any info would be greatly appreciated.

  • Adam Kent

    Awsome tutorial Ron. I also would like to know where to grab this dupe extract script used in this turorial.

  • http://digitalformula.net Chris

    Hmmm … I don’t think this should be called a tutorial. It’s more of a fast-paced guide and although Maya isn’t exactly a toy, you’re assuming a ton of previous knowledge and aren’t exactly ‘walking’ anyone through anything.

    Sorry, just my opinion as I don’t think this fits with the pace of other tutsplus tutorials …

  • Camila

    Great tutorial!
    But I think you did it so fast and I lost myself sometimes… heheheh.