Maya Hard Surface Basics: Curved Surfaces

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Want to add details on Curved Surfaces in your Hard Surface Models in Maya? Come across nasty pinching that is commons on Curved Surfaces when adding holding edges? In this Maya Hard Surface Modeling Tutorial , I will show several techniques to add details to your hard surface models while minimizing pinching.
In this Tutorial, I will cover the following Maya Hard Surface Modeling Techniques:
► How to Avoid Pinching with basic edgeflow work.
► Use of Instances within the Mirror Tool.
► The Bend Deformer.
This Maya Hard Surface tutorial is great for Maya Beginner and Intermediate users.
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[@steventran5426]

Just starting my 3D journey. I've watched so many tutorial videos and I'm just starting to watch yours now. Honestly. Seeing a face work through the tutorial vids makes your content so much easier to follow than most Pluralsight content. Thanks so much for the tips man. Amazing work.

[@ruok3351]

you're the man

[@jlmussi]

Thanks, much appreciated.

[@RSSpeacemaker]

Great tutorial man. I've been modeling for a long time now and I gotta admit, curved surfaces are always a problem for me. While I admit the problems very rarely arise from working with cylinders, the solutions you have here still apply.

[@sebastianmaggio9657]

you'r the gurú of maya... period. Ty so much for your time and your tips

[@ivanswan3691]

I'm creating A quick coupler for wires on my character and I couldn't get those details cuz of pinching on a similar cylinder, then I open youtube and the first thing I see is that amazing video. You are awesome , thanks!

[@lerunia1293]

A lot of useful information on the channel, a competent presentation of the topic, easy communication with the audience .. thank you!

[@aydaryakup4540]

great video! I've been struggling with the exact same problem and couldn't find any solution. Thank you!

[@idrishonnor123]

Amazing! Thnaks so much, these kind tips are applicable to so many situations! I really like you style of tutorial in comparison to normal "How to make a ..." tutorials. Thanks!

[@jlmussi]

Glad you're enjoying my videos. Thanks for stopping by in the comments section.

[@jlmussi]

Confession: I had a hard time not laughing while recording the part right after intro.

[@leecaste]

That light change though 😂😂😂 by the way I like that aggressive attitude for hard surface modeling 😂😂😂

[@jlmussi]

@@leecaste Compositing is not my claim to fame! lol

[@jlmussi]

@@dencan8 Thanks Denise.

[@klarnorbert]

You're the best resource for HSM. Keep it up!

[@trapezgaming1523]

Really Appreciate You sir you Just upgrade me ☺️🤠

[@leoekang9783]

I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL AND TUTORIALS! BIG THANK BRO!

[@jlmussi]

I appreciate ya stopping by the comments section!

[@leoekang9783]

@@jlmussi What did I say that was weird!?

[@joyaljoseph1861]

Thanks Man....Great time with you

[@juanoncho]

thanks.. I thought I would never be able to work with cylindrical surfaces.. you made it look easy. thanks for all the tips.

[@simonbustamante667]

very nice brou, learning a lot of stuff with your videos

[@Sonic-wolf]

Thank U 4 ur Video :-) I am trying to solve this type of issue in model for long time.

[@xwxvxwx]

Your Tuts r very helpful for my studies !!

[@jlmussi]

Glad I could help.

[@dongterry3925]

Awesome tutorial! Thanks a lot!

[@keithyakouboff8755]

Helpful. Thank you.

[@thefooltouchstone3569]

Love all the little tips and tricks in Maya you are sharing! Thanks! :)

[@joelwesterveltaia2196]

Very helpful, thanks!

[@jlmussi]

Glad it was helpful!

[@more_zey]

I want to live....so let me go with you.... Nice tutorial JL

[@andrewmajewski1756]

I know I'm a little late to the party, but are there any general rules for how dense one should make cylindrical objects that have sharp transitions? I tend to try and model poly efficiently, so I'm generally going between 8 and 16-sided cylinders and very rarely anything over 24 sides because it's faster to edit objects with a smaller face count and even play around with the shape if necessary. I also model low-res as to allow the sub-D conversion work out the smoothing for me. The issue I run into is that I still have tendency to run into pinching at times, but I'm wary of having too many polygons as to be wasteful (I come from an old school gaming poly model workflow where efficiency was / is king; a lot of film models while they look good, also tend to have a LOT of seemingly redundant polygons that just wouldn't be used in a game model). It's one of those things that I still struggle with at times.

[@hareinferno]

This is GOLD! Thank you!

[@alexsarakapudau1146]

Another great video JL. Thanks for sharing.

[@circusmonkey28]

Could you teach me how to grow and groom facial hair like yours? Also thanks for the lesson! I really needed this too! Thanks to Dave (or whoever) for requesting this.

[@jlmussi]

Sorry to disappoint you but my beard 100% VFX. Just made with xGen in Maya and comp'ed it into all my videos :-)

[@jvh927]

these are awesomeee man appreciate you sharing ya knowledge!!

[@jlmussi]

Glad you are enjoying the videos.

[@paveljesus2355]

Thank you JL, a proffesional tutorial :)

[@yavkinamaria7954]

I from Russia- на нашем ютубе такой информации вообще нет. Очень крутые видио спасибо тебе )

[@d3-010]

Like your way of Teaching, keep it continue bro......

[@jlmussi]

Thanks for the support.

[@jannesopanen8032]

Hey, I love your tutorials, but If the cylinder would replaced with a sphere, things would be different. Are there tutorials about that ?

[@aviverma666]

Thanks for your valuable time by this video.u learned me a lot of things.

[@milangasandulika1340]

Thank you

[@farhanthaleem2890]

Man, you're a life saver 🤧🤧🤧 I love you 3000😂

[@jlmussi]

That's what I'm here for. Thanks for love.

[@snorky1828]

Thank you so much for this tutorial!

[@OscarPerez-sc6vz]

Thank you so much this really helped me!

[@cheahweixian4854]

love your videos, thanks you very much. very helpful

[@geekylogophile]

Brilliant. Thanks so much!

[@DaveMohapatra]

JL, this is absolutly what I was struggling with. Thank you so much for putting together this video. You are indeed a Maya guru! I get tunnel vision working on a specific problem and you have cleared it for me. On a side note, do you use 3Ds Max too, along with Maya or any other 3D package? Once again I truly appreciate this. Thanks, Dave

[@jlmussi]

Glad this answered your questions. I've been there with the tunnel vision, often obsessing over things that dont effect the final result. As for as packages besides Maya Ive used or have experience with 3DsMax, Modo, Softimage, Zbrush and Houdini. IMO from strictly a modeling standpoint Modo and Softimage would be my favorite. Maya has definitely closed the gap in the last couple years.

[@simonstrobl850]

Thx for your Videos!! They help a lot.

[@lilitbeglarian7942]

Thank you so so much for these man!

[@jlmussi]

Glad to see you in the comments section and glad you're enjoying my content.

[@puneeth77]

thanks for making video...means a lot sir

[@RahulKumar-mp7lt]

I love your Videos bro

[@rdxvoidzero]

Love the video, life saver, I lived

[@cpu64]

Neat, I'm still using Maya 7 (I think)

[@TheHawk005]

Your videos are getting funny xD...thanks again for the hard surface video

[@jlmussi]

You're welcome. You ain't see nothing yet :-D

[@pranavanawkar5400]

Your videos is very helpful...thank you..

[@jlmussi]

You're welcome Pranav. Glad they are helping.

[@minuscolochao1557]

Thank u I learned valuable things!

[@jlmussi]

Glad you found the video valuable Minuscolo.

[@EdgyEmoLoliconBoy]

Amazing

[@ApolloPheonix]

blessed content

[@jlmussi]

Thanks Bert.

[@xNIMZx1]

A little life hack for anyone interested, I hardly see anyone do this. For quick selecting the cylinder cap you can just select the vert in the middle and convert selection to face. I believe the default hotkey is Ctrl F11 I personal find the paint selection tool awful, so i do lots of convert selections Ctrl F9 Convert to verts Ctrl F10 Convert to edges Ctrl F11 Convert to face Ctrl F12 Convert to uvs

[@keithyakouboff8755]

Entertaining and I learned a bit, too. But, how about just turning your phone off when recording?

[@MadpolygonDEV]

Whats more challenging is blendinh spherical objects with other spehrical objects and Like cuts etc. thats the difficult part. Cylinders are manageable, but if you try to lets say do boolean subtractions with spherical shapes, thats when it gets tricky

[@abea8287]

If you wanted to work with lower subdivisions and get rid of pinching on curved surfaces i know blender has a shrink wrap modifier that does it by having a duplicate object with high subdivisions. Maybe maya has something like that?

[@امينواصل-غ6ي]

Thank you nice tutorial hard

[@maxcardenas8257]

intros like that are what make me watch the whole video. kinda corny but a refreshing take on most of the really boring tutorials out there for maya

[@leecaste]

Another method for the first cylinder is to model the low res version and instead of adding support edge loops or bevels, select all the edges you want to be hard, use the crease tool to crease them, smooth the model (real smooth, not preview), uncrease the edges and hit 3 for smooth preview...I'm having a dejavu right now, did I comment this exact same thing on another video? 🤔 Well an additional step at 4:45 is to make an edge loop (or more) surrounding the extrusion and follow the same steps you did after, this way you're making the artifacts smaller and the edges sharper.

[@jlmussi]

Thanks for sharing. I often work with Zbrush or other apps so I'm not a big fan of creasing as other packages wont recognize it.

[@leecaste]

JL Mussi no, just use creasing to apply the smooth to the mesh, uncrease and hit 3...it's a temporal crease to keep edges hard while you apply the smooth but you turn it off after smoothing.

[@riaan077]

great thanks

[@virgilemaratrey6201]

Hey a big thanks for this tutorial, just what I wanted to know !!! Will you explain where to place ngone well please ?(I saw some on your gun rifle).

[@jlmussi]

Hey Virgile, yup I will do a video about Ngons soon.

[@longwalkdathan1]

some good learnin

[@akenney1234]

Great as always! Thanks JL. Another tutorial done, now on to the next one. How do I get access to the BMX course?

[@jlmussi]

Glad I could help Adam. Do you get my email updates? If so, you'll be notified when its available.

[@akenney1234]

JL Mussi ... I certainly do 👍

[@jlmussi]

I'll have some updates coming soon.

[@LuisSOfficial]

Insane!

[@spacefreak8863]

Horayy! More vids :)

[@alexissanchez5072]

What's the difference between using the tool "Edge Loop" and "Multicut"? Is there any difference? Thanks for your videos :)!

[@jlmussi]

Think about the multi cut too as a swiss army knife. It does have an edge loop function but it will average the new loop between the two edges. So if I need a straight loop base off one edge I will use the insert edge loop tool, otherwise multi cut.

[@alexissanchez5072]

@@jlmussi Wow, thanks, that's all that i need to know ^^ Thanks!

[@nicolaizafra9705]

Hi JL, can you also make the same tutorial for 3ds max users? :3

[@jlmussi]

Sorry 3ds Max is not my specialty ATM.

[@nicolaizafra9705]

No worries man :)

[@lockenessmotorsports818]

@@nicolaizafra9705 it'll be the same thing edge flow wise

[@lockenessmotorsports818]

Brilliant :)

[@cliffordunger8623]

nice intro man :)

[@jannesopanen8032]

How about if you have a sphere and you want to pull quad from it without any pitching? With a spherical object you have problems all around you, in a figure of speech :) I haven't figured out a solution yet... plz help me!

[@ruok3351]

hey i have a question. Once u finish with the model and u smooth it out like 17:34 , isnt that just the smooth preview? Is preview enough or am i suppose to use ‘actual’ smoothing tool which adds more subdivisions? which one is the right way to smooth an object if im gonna uv, texture in substance and maybe sculpt it in zbrush and all that?

[@jlmussi]

Yes that is a smooth (sub D) preview. If you are staying in maya then yes, you can render out, or even apply a smooth at render time. Really depends on what you are going to do and the amount of geometry needed that will dictate wherever you can get away with a preview or actually having to do a smooth.

[@nalinpuri4519]

Is it neccesary in hard surface modelling to use subdivision mesh preview while modelling? Beacause i have been doing hard surface modelling without it.

[@piyushyeshi3099]

keep it up

[@pranavanawkar5400]

Now I have a problem...How do i make it sports bike helmet...(Such as.l - Dirt Bike helmet) is to difficult...so Can you take this topic next time...

[@mathiasaxelsson]

Nice video. You can actually just combine the instances with the original directly. No need to do that other thing you did. On the cylinder I mean. You actually did this on the later parts. Why?

[@capitalcrate5752]

Why not just adding a second edgeloop within the the first? Problem solved, 5 seconds?

[@playonce4186]

how did u add vertex to edge?

[@abiyyupanggalih854]

8:34 if you want to see how it works

[@cereal65]

0:30 The power... The presence...

[@jm5733]

Dude...I want you to model your beard in maya next!

[@jlmussi]

That will be an eternal WIP! lol

[@ME-wy4rf]

17:32 what did you do with your keyboard? (i'm a beginner)

[@jlmussi]

Hit "3". It enables Sub-D preview.

[@ME-wy4rf]

@@jlmussi ok, thank you

[@MazyKreations]

10:43 was there a mosquito ???🦟🦟

[@seandberg]

Nice entro.....lol

[@ecstetika4467]

awww jeez

[@HugoBossMtl]

Lollll