Maya Instruments and Band Room

Above you will see the trumpet. If you
if you look at the buttons they can
twist off.

This past semester I have been working on several instruments and modeling of a band room. I have not yet finished the all the instruments. I worked mostly on brass this semester, needing to finish a tuba. I want to spend what I hope to be only a month on the woodwind instruments. I need to figure out how I want to approach them.

The Start

Last semester I began working on a trumpet almost completing it. I added a few touches this semester and also began to work on a brass texture, which I am still working on.

Chairs and Stands

Band room at my school. Giving me a

good idea on how to line the chairs

and stands

When this semester started , after I got done with the trumpet touch ups, I went down to my band room at my school and took several pictures of chairs, stands, and the room as a whole. When I was done with that I went back down to the animation room to begin working.

The ensemble line up in maya

I started on working on the music stand. This consisted of a little bit of time and patience. I began working on the bottom of the stand which has 3 legs. I moved my way up using a cylinder and ending the cylinder with a connector piece. That connector piece connects to the the top of the music stand. That part is what makes the stand a stand to hold the music. The top part of the stand took me a while because there is an awkward curve on the stand t

hat holds the pencils. To make that curve I added multiple edge loops to the bottom of the stand and started lining it up to give that curve effect. I then making it size right to the picture I took in the band room.

I wanna than Anthony Rima
for this chair he helped with

After  made the music stand I then
moved to making the chair, if I wanna make the band room I have to get some of the smaller details of the room, like the chair. Anthony Rima helped me out making the chair. I needed his help cause the chair had some awkward legs that bended where the back and bottom part met.


I then copied a lot of chairs to line up look look like a wind ensemble set up. I will copy a lot f stands as well, I just need to adjust the size to make it fit and be portioned right to the chair. Not to big, not too small.

Above you will see the podium.
Notice the handle behind it

The Podium

The podium, was was surprisingly a little finiche. The first part of the podium was rather easy. I had to make a few cubes and extrude them. The next was the not harder part, just squirlly part. It was the handle on the back of the podium. It took me a while to make it go straight across. When I extruded it it wanted to go diagonal rather than straight, giving me more things to line up. Making it take longer.

Instruments

View of the Trombone

After the podium

Top view of the Marimba

I made I worked on was the trombone. I had some issues to size the trombone correctly. It looked not right. I restarted it a few times. I also couldn't think of a way to make the curve like I did the trumpet. But the problem was I didn't remember how to do tat. I tried sever things like extruding and soft selecting a long cylinder. I ended up taking a log break from the trombone and began to work on the flute and a marimba. But more on that later. Once I went back to the trombone I figured out how to do the curve. All I literally had to do was copy and past the same curve from the trumpet and make it larger. I was so mad that I couldn't figure out something as simple as that. Once I did that I also copied the same mouthpiece from the trumpet because why
reinvent the wheel. It made so easy for me to complete the modeling part once I figured out those few simple steps.

During the majority of my break I working on a marimba. The Marimba took
me about 3 to 4 days to model, but I need to think about a texture it.  I made a xylophone a long with that. It was very similar to the marimba because the keys are aligned the same, just like a piano. After tat I made some crash cymbals, I'm trying to figure out how I'm gonna make the handle for the crash cymbals. I'm thinking of adding an nCloth. But I'm still not sure.

Bottom view to see the pipes

Nearing the end of the semester I started to work on a tube and a flute. The flute is rather difficult as will the clarinet be. They have small buttons and details that matter at lot to them. However, most of the m are small cylinders  that just need to be sized and lined up properly The tuba, the only hard part about that is making the tubes spin around the whole instrument. I have already made the horn part which is now the easy part for me.