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Extruding the mouth

Extruding the mouth - Maya Tutorial

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Extruding the mouth

- Now that we have the body roughed out let's go ahead and move on to the mouth. We're just gonna create a basic mouth, we're not gonna add a lot of detail, but we're just gonna create the mouth and the mouth cavity. Let's start by selecting our object. If you want, we can see how it's smoothed, and that's working pretty good, but I'm actually gonna do this in regular polygon mode so I'm gonna make sure I hit the one key on my keyboard. And we're gonna go in to the front view. Here is the mouth of the character. I'm gonna start off by creating some detail on these two faces. So I'm gonna go into face mode and I'm gonna select this face and this face. You can see which ones I have selected here. And then we're going to extrude that to create the additional detail. So I'm gonna go into Edit Mesh and we're gonna go Extrude Faces. And then I'm going to scale this extrusion down. I'm not going to pull it in or out, I'm just going to scale it. Because what we want is we want this to be on…

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