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Extruding Text/Curves in Maya Manually

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In a previous tutorial I discussed importing Adobe Illustrator files into Maya to create custom text. This tutorial explains how to extrude those curves into 3d Objects manually. There are other ways to achieve the same effect using built in functionality found in the various menus that Maya has.

Channel: Film & Animation
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: dockode

Length: 05:00
Rating: 3.67
Views: 20943

Tags: 3d  curves  extruding  manually  Maya  text  tutorial  

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TheFailedLogic (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Thanks =] Helped me alot.
Properbobinners (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
your a real good "tutorial-ist" lol but im making a guitar, i used curves to cheat my way around the basic outline ;) then when i press fill hole it not only fills the whole but fills some of the exterior of it too =S wb please =]
altable (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
better try surfaces/bebel plus, and get the results to polygons try it and youll get some interesting results
donrodman3 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
hey people im making video tutorials for maya for free 100% there going to be published on march 30th please leave messages on my page stating what tutorial you need doing and ille do it for you.
jmjgraphics (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Done like a true teacher, the easy way doesn't help you learn to use as many tools.
headSwarm (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Thanks big! was looking for something like this for ages. One question, how would I make a fill hole for a letter with a gap in it like a capital A?
buffyguy10 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
ah dude..this tutorial is not very practical for text. If you had a long word like what you had before, it would take you forever to finish them all of. It's better to use another mathod that was mentioned from before.
alvibes (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
You also could do that in the menu bar > create > text (then you set extrude depth, bevel, etc for every letters at once). Never the less I like your thec nique of extruding with a single straight curve... I didn't know that..
kyleb2112 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
You could get it done faster with the bevel plus tool, but there's some good stuff in there about cleaning up models and filling holes so I see why you'd teach this first. Thanks for the free tut.

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