Easy 3D Character Modeling in Maya - Part 1 - Body 

this 20 minute turorial taught me more than my six month university course that was a part of my degree. I'm both incredibly grateful and slightly horrified

I am so grateful for this tutorial. I've been particularly stuck on how to handle the shoulder/armpit area for ages and you broke it down in a way that finally made it click for me! I just did a test rig to see how it bends and it's already a vast improvement over my previous attempts. Thanks so much for your work with this tutorial 👍

I’m only halfway through and this is such a good tutorial! Get me excited to try modeling my own. Love the soft music too, gives a calming vibe.

This is the simplest way for a human body I have seen so far. You are incredibly good.

Hello, Alex. Thank you so much for the tutorial and time you spent creating it. With your help I could successfully finish the 1st part, now moving onto the second. Thank you a lot one more time!

Nice. I am modeling my cartoon character in Blender. I just needed a simple workflow for the body and this is perfect. I know the tools in Blender so following you to achieve the same result was easy. Thank you.

Followed this as a complete newby while using chatgpt to quickly find out the shortcuts and workflow that you were doing. Damn I learnt a lot in just 20 minutes. Fantastic tutorial

OMG thank you so much for this. I'm currently going a video game program and I passed 3D modeling a couple years back so I didn't have to do any during first semester but now I actually need it for the 2nd semester and I was so rusty. This video helped me alot to get back on track, thanks alot!

Nice to see you uploading again :)

Thank you for this tutorial! Very helpful and you explain things in a way thats makes it understandable and easy to follow

Thank you so much. This is the best video on modeling a human I've seen so far. I remember watching this video and following through when I modeled my very first character. And 1 month later, here I am rewatching this while modeling my 2nd character. This video is so good and straightforward, don't have to skip a single second. Incredible. Good job!!!

my man! thank you. moving from Blender to maya and this helped with shortcuts.

You're amazing at explaining what seems to be difficult! I've stumbled on this video to resolve some topology issues because I always have trouble with modeling organic in maya, this helps so much!! Will def be following

This is soo good man. Easy to understand

you are amazing dude, keep doing this and upload more

Excellend tutorial. This has been so helpful and taught me so much. Your process is amazing and the way you explain everything is super helpful. Would love to see your tuturial of hair.

Great video, easy to work along with!

I do thank you for the tutorials! I'm just starting my college course and this is the best that I've ever been explained towards first using Maya.. except from im stuck in bean mode and don't know the button to go back Edit: nevermind I just looked up maya shortcuts

You make it look so easy

nice workflow!

This is amazing

Amazing! Thank you, Alex :)

This is great.

well done great video 😃

Thank you!

thank you man 👍

Thanks for this

thank you!

Thank you

One thing that tripped me up is when you said to subdivide. I didn't realize there were two ways to do that, so rather than click smooth, I'd hit subdivide and my person would look blocky. Other than that this has been great!

this is way better than my college no cap

THANK YOU!!!!!

i came here from Mustafa alhm channel, he recommended your channel :)

Here cuz I gotta learn to do this next year for uni :0

Thankyou

5:50 torso 6:30

Спасибо, очень круто 👍🏻

Is it important that our model roughly follows our reference in both smoothed and hardened settings? I am making a character with lots of curves, and to follow my reference and make her accurate in the smoothened setting the hard mode looks very exaggerated. Does it matter, is there a way to fix that?

Very TOP

Can you please design a Knucker Dragon model

hi, im a college student begginer to maya, how do i know ive exausted a shape?

how to get the duplicate layer outside the group?

how did you subdivide with the icon tool i don't have it up there and cant seem to find it to create same result. i did modify/preview smooth mesh to poly but that doesn't let me switch between hard and smooth keys after that.

extremely hard than i think that's need 2 months for success for one

This 20 minute learnt is way better than spending fkin time in college and money

How do I get the tools like loop tool and subdivision tool to show up on the poly modeling tool bar?

I keep getting extra lines/boxes when I try to shape the torso after subdividing the cube. Does anyone what how to fix that? Edit: I figured it out! I was selecting more faces than I realised because I was in front view! I feel stupid 😂😂😂

when i sub divide my model looks weird i need help

Hi, what’s shortcut key that you used to make all future changes symmetrical?

2:08 self ref

Would you take this mesh into something like ZBrush, keep it as your lowest division level, and sculpt on it after dividing?

Hello friend! I press key 3 to make it more round as you did, but I'd like to revert that, what key should I press? Thank you!!

if we make character with this method then can we rig this character for animation or its only for show models???

Where i can get reference image. It ll be helpful if i get that .

Hi Alex. Is it possible to download your reference image ? I always learn so much with your tutorials.

Hey is it possible if you have a finished character in maya to move it to unreal engine?

Hey can you tell me where is Subdivide tool in MAYA 24 version

How do you go back to square view after you smoothen it up?

Question about the arm extrusion how did you extrude them outwards and downwards right away?

15:18

hi, i really liked your explaination on this character model 😍. can you tell me how should i start making a character of my own in maya, please? do i necessarily need model sheets for reference or if not then how can i go about the modeling process? 😀

How do you get the subdivisions to move individually like that without skewing the whole shape? (6:17)

how is is selecing 2 vertics before symmetrying?

Hi. Where can we download the sample from? I searched everywhere but couldn't find any😭

is the subdivide button no longer a thing?

I cant seem to find the subdivision tool. Sorry its my first time using maya

where i can get ref images from?

When I subdivide the torso it isn't clean like yours. How do I fix it?

From where I can download the image

How can we find this picture of model

Watched the whole thing even though I am a total beginner. Made a small bedroom, a guitar and a bob-omb so far. Got stuck at the very first point in your video. You create a cube and change the pivot point but when you scale the cube it scales symmetrically and centred at the world origin. When I scale it, it scales relative to the pivot point on whatever vertex I snap it toI tried googling and asking Chatgpt and it just tells me to use the channel box editor to set it manually or use a python script which doesn't even set the pivot correctly... EDIT: After multiple python scripts and asking ChatGPT the same question 4 different ways it has told me to temporarily group the cube, which changes the scale point to centre. Is this what you failed to mention or is there another setting you have changed to do this? EDIT2: Just noticed you did not create a group because it doesn't show in the Outliner. I'm tearing my beard out

I really wanna get used to mayas navigation and ui, but damn it just doesnt make sense to me rn

Where get the reference image

where can i get the image plan blud, what is the keyword

Bro you make it look too easy 🙏

Guys can someone tell where I will find pictures like the he used? 🆘

I'd love it if I had the option to even subdivide in Maya. DX This program is so unintuitive.

Maya is more easy from Zbrush

You are saying what to do but not showing how to do it.