[GET] Maya Exterior Environment Creation

Today we are happy to release the first ‘day’ of a new multi-part tutorial series by Cgtuts+ regular Ivan Krushkov. This in-depth series focuses on the creation of an exterior scene in Maya. In day 1 we’ll start the project off by modeling our environment from the ground up, exploring the many different modeling tools and techniques Maya has to offer!

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Day 1
This in-depth series focuses on the creation of an exterior scene in Maya. In day 1 we’ll start the project off by modeling our environment from the ground up, exploring the many different modeling tools and techniques Maya has to offer!
Day 2
Today Ivan Krushkov brings us day 2 of his Exterior Environment Creation tutorial series for Maya. In today’s post Ivan will wrap up the modeling portion of the project by adding the remaining details to the scene. With the modeling complete, he’ll move onto cleaning up and prepare the geometry for UVMapping.
Day 3
As many of you know, uvmapping can be a difficult and time consuming task, not to mention confusing to those with little experience in the area. In day 3 of the Exterior Environment Creation tutorial series. Ivan will guide us through the process of uvmapping the entire exterior scene using a combination of Maya’s built in mapping tools and Headus UVLayout, a third party uvmapping program.
Day 4
In day 4 of the Exterior Environment Creation tutorial series, Ivan will cover the basics of texturing the scene using Maya and Photoshop. We’ll look at creating diffuse, bump, specular and displacement maps for our scene, as well as setting up the necessary shaders in Maya.
Day 5
Today we bring the fifth and final part of Ivan Krushkov’s Exterior Environment Creation tutorial series. In day 5 we’ll finish up the texturing work by adding the final details to our maps, before rendering our scene and moving into Photoshop for final compositing and color correction.