very tricky but amazing

good and nice work

I would have probably used NURBs for the handle. I always try to stay way from booleans with polys.

IT WORKED, i'm a beginner in MAYA, simple and neat work, thanks a lot, :)

i am like ths full view model , i am 7 year cheractor modler in chennai

thanx for very nicely explained tutorial

I think this tutorial is bad for several reasons. Worst of all is that it works. It teaches very bad habits to users. Especially the boolean operation on polygons is a bit misleading, i mean fine it happens to work here*. But seriously doing the exact same thing without a boolean is less work and creates a far superior model.

See its this kind of small things that can push peoples learning experiences back by months because they have now learned a approach which will come and bite their ass and they wont know until its too late.

It makes sense, it works... but doesn't really in the long run. See its a surefire way of killing the interpolation of a TON of things you will need to rely on later in the game. Once you realize this you've wasted a lot of time.

Other complaint: its mislabeled, Readership Level, should be Beginner

* the trick is knowing when the boolean works tough

Itz Amazing...

im just 12 and i am using this software for 4 months and and thanks, this tutorial really helped me

Very easy and fun tutorial I thought. The revolving of the 8 extended spheres I thought would be difficult... but when u make 1, duplicate, revolve 180...grp and duplicate again, revolve 90, duplicate, then another 45...very easy when you think about it. :) Anyways, I did this, and bumped up the rendering some more, and when my friends look at the pic, they wonder where I got the purple and pink screwdrivers from. :)

its good work