Introduction:
This week Nick did a comprehensive class on how to design and construct a robotic arm. He said that building a robot arm may look hard but it’s not so hard to do. It is new to me to make a complicated robot arm as well. I don’t usually work with Maya, so it might be challenging for me to do the robot arm. However, Nick’s class is always helpful on the fundamental side of learning the software because he is very experienced and a nice lecturer to learn from. I’m very happy and excited to do the robot arm.
New tip: Holding ctrl while scaling makes the object smoother.
tip 2: holding middle mouse button can change the number on the selected bar easily.
tip 3: open custom shelf, click ctrl and shift at the same time and drag the insert edgy loop (or other function) into the shelf.
tip 4: press 7 to turn on light view. Create spot light and press t to create aim. So the big light can follow the aim around.
tip 5: put both pre and post infinity cycle-select infinity on view to create a loop animation.
tip 6: ctrl+shift+d for duplicate special
Modelling Process: