Recreating Pixar’s Wall-e in High Poly using Maya 2012: Part 1

Recreating Pixar’s Wall-e in High Poly using Maya 2012: Part 1

on Feb 28th 2013 with 13 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Software: Autodesk Maya
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 3+ Hours

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Modeling Wall-e

Today we’re debuting our latest in-depth modeling series for Autodesk Maya where we’ll learn how to faithfully recreate one of Pixar’s most lovable characters, Wall-e. This beginner/ intermediate level tutorial series is focused on hardsurface modeling. We’ll start with basic techniques such as blocking out form, creating more complicated shapes from primitives and making sure that the model has a good edge flow. Then, after we’ve practiced the basic tools and techniques, we’ll move onto using more advanced modeling techniques as the series progresses and we move onto creating more complicated parts.

This is Laszlo’s first time authoring for for Cgtuts+, so please give him a warm welcome as he joins the team and becomes part of the awesome Cgtuts+ community!

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Laszlo (Laz) Mandi is currently a 3D Animation student at the National Centre For Computer Animation (NCCA) in Bournemouth UK. In his spare time he enjoys creating tutorials about the techniques and skills that he learned though his University Course. Laz also has a strong background in graphics design, he started creating tutorials on this subject where he has more than 1 year of experience in creating tutorials. You can find more of his tutorials mainly related to graphics design on his Youtube Channel.  

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  • MihaiZainea

    Nice tutorial! Thank you!

    • Joepeagam

      Just what iv been looking for. Thanks mate

  • Chris K

    Amazing amazing!. I can’t wait for the following parts!! :D

  • Chris K

    What a fun model!

  • -_-

    is this tut going to take months to finish?! -_- idk why cgtuts does this, releasing all the tuts at once is allot better, this method sucks.

    • Ben_Tate

      Yes it will. The reason we publish this way is pretty simple. We have a strict monthly budget to cover the cost of everything published throughout the month on Cgtuts+ and we can’t use all of our resources to publish a single tutorial series. Obviously not everyone uses Maya either. So if we did that, there would be no new content for anyone using another software package.

      The other reason being, these tutorials take an enormous amount of time and work on the author’s part to create, and we need to allow them time to complete them. So yes, this particular tutorial series will be running for several months.

      Cheers,
      Ben Tate
      Cgtuts+ Co-Editor

  • Centurion

    how often will be new tut? every week?
    but thanks :)

    • Laz
      Author

      Yes, will try to get them published once a week.
      Laz

      • Vlad

        Do you have a final view on how this model is going to look like?

        Btw, its been really great to follow these videos! Im a total beginner so I really appreciate the time you guys have put into this.

        Regards,
        Vlad

  • ohthisguy

    I’m finished with modeling parts 1-4. Please post the rest of the Walle E modeling series soon. Thank you.

    • Laz
      Author

      New parts should be published this week, stay tuned :)
      Laz

  • ohthisguy

    Thank you, Laz! I’ve been waiting for the new tuts and looking forward to the rest. Cheers!

  • visnijkriz

    Hey I have a problem when I want to extrude the edge (video part 1-3 min 06:09) in the channel box, on polyExtrudeEdge settings does not appear the offset and the thickness. Does anyone knows why it happens and how to resolve it??? Please¡¡

    By the way great tutorial thanks :D