
98 ◾ 3D Animation for the Raw Beginner Using Maya
But the cap can still move independently.
Indeed, our cow has decided his hat would
look cooler cocked to the side. So, as he
walked along, he has reached up and rotated
it (see Figure4.8).
USING BEVEL, EXTRUDE,
DETACH, AND COMBINE
TO MAKE A MAILBOX
We will make a mailbox and focus on ele-
gance as we model it. How can we build a
simple but nice looking model with a small
set of tools and a small number of modeling
steps?
A Working Set of Polygon
Modeling Tools
We have taken a look at polygon modeling
(with our hand example) and noted that
extrusion is a key polygon modeling tool.
We will make ...