From the course: Modeling a Cartoon Character in Maya
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Modeling teeth - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Modeling a Cartoon Character in Maya
Modeling teeth
- Now that I have my character's eyes in place, I can move on to the mouth. I'm gonna start off with the upper teeth. Now when you create a cartoon character, you have a lot of leeway in creating teeth. You can make them stylized or realistic. You can have more teeth or less teeth. So for this particular character, I'm probably gonna make my teeth a little bit larger which will mean fewer teeth. That will add to the cartooniness of the character. I'm gonna start off just by creating a simple tooth. We're gonna create that out of a box. So I kind of need to get a sense for how big I want that tooth. I'm just gonna kind of guess, etimate it. Maybe something about like that big. Something right around there. Then we're gonna just extrude it just a little bit because what we really want is we want kind of, well, a tooth shape so we don't want it too thick because teeth really aren't that thick. Something about like that. Now a square tooth like this or a square edged tooth, probably isn't…
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