From the course: Modeling a Cartoon Character in Maya
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Character design - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Modeling a Cartoon Character in Maya
Character design
In this course, we're going to create a basic cartoon character. Now, when you create a cartoon character, you need to start with some sort of design. Now, that may be something that you just create by yourself, or it may be something that a customer or client requests of you. Now, for this class we're going to do a basic body type that's used in a lot of different characters. And basically that body type consists of a simple shape, and then on top of that shape, you have basically arms, and legs protruding from it. Now, this shape may seem simple, but it's used in a lot of very popular characters. Now, for example, the M&Ms. They're used a lot in commercials and they again have that same body type, a simple shape with arms and legs. Pixar uses this exact same body type for Mike who's in "Monsters, Inc." Another commercial that I saw was called "It's Payback Time" and it's produced by the BBC. And it's a really great commercial, but one of the neat things about it is that again the…
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