Egg Cups Maya Tutorial No.1

I followed the entire tutorial and finished my egg cups.
Here we have an NURBS egg cup (red), Low res Polygon egg cup (blue),  a SubD egg cup (yellow) and a Poly smooth egg cup (green).

I found this task both enjoyable and also challenging. My main challenge was creating the dip in the egg cup for my poly egg cup. I ran into a few difficulties which meant I had to spend a long time trying to fix my mistakes. Next time, I will keep trying to make my egg cups look perfect and more precise. Using NURBS was definitely the easiest method to model my egg cups.

NURBS Egg Cup 1

In our last Maya lesson, we learned how to model an NURBS egg cup using simple curves. NURBS stands for Non-uniform rational basis spline. They are used in computer graphics and are most commonly used to create 3D objects.

The most important thing I learned in the first tutorial is that the more splits you use to create a curve, the smoother your curve becomes, which results in the overall object looking more smooth. This was very useful when creating my egg cup.

Here is my first NURBS egg cup: