Week 2 - Trying out Maya and Designing Prop Ideas

In week 2 I took some time going through Maya as I had never used it before and wanted to become more familiar with it. I watched the tutorials it offered and after completing them I watched a few more tutorials on Youtube. One of the first videos I followed was how to create the design of simple rocks so I attempted it to see how it turned out. It helped me to learn some more of the tools I hadn’t used before and now I know how to move around Maya and create some basic shapes.

My design for the rocks

Now that I knew I was designing the chains for the scenes it meant that I could draw out the different ideas I had from chains that were intact and then broken chains as well. The images I sourced helped me to have a reference to what I was going to actually make so I always had them in front of me so I always knew what I was aiming for in the design process. I just used paper and pencil to sketch out the different ideas I had for them and I could also use them later when I was actually designing them on Maya.