Modeling Strawberry with Polygons in Maya part 1

1) Go ahead and create a polygonal shaper with the default settings, and on the shaded mode

2) Now for editing right click on the shaper and select the vertex.

3) Select some of vertex and move them.

Note: - One of thing you will see while moving large group of vertxseces you are 
going to get hard edges around the points you are moving those.

A point where you want to move the movements more organelle if called soft selection.

Now question is that how you do that? How to use soft selection? How to find soft selection? And how soft selection work? Well it’s very easy as you know that there is so many tool in the Maya most of them you see on your screen some or in the tool bars, but there are more tools in the selection and movements tool also. How you reach to more tools in Maya？It’s also very simple just dabble click any one of the move, rotate or select tool.

When you dabble click on any of the tool on the place of where channel box appear you will see a new panel pops up this is what I call tools children. You don’t have to remember this way it is just what I call!! Ok so if you dabble click on the move tool you’ll see in a move tools tool menu. Scroll it down a little till you see a section there by the name of Soft Selection. This really handy and very useful for the object we are going to make just after the introdeuction of the soft selection tool.

4) Now if the sphere is still selected and the vertex also as we let before then we are ready to go farther but if we are not then go to the

Create > Polygon > Sphere

And create a poly sphere with default settings and select the top Vertex by right clicking on the sphere.

5) Now open the Move tool by dabble click on the move tool and on soft selection (to one the soft selection you have to click in the soft selection box)

Note : - Now you will see there is the vertexes you have selected become yellow. Under Soft Selection you see falloff mode and falloff radius what this is? From here you can dial in the radius over the selection the soft selection will affective. So now any vertex you will select now has falloff and everything is selected move 100% with the radius falloff. Let’s move any of the vertex you will see now the movement is very different and move organic then before. This is very heady and power full way to model organically. Thing not work just for the move tool also for scale and rotate tool, and more about the tool you can choose Curve presets form carve presets also.

If you turn on this for one tool it will on for the other scale and rotate tool also you after using the soft selection don’t forget to off the soft selection.

One last ting I like to explain about is the reflection tool under the soft selecting. This is also so Help full when we want to model some organic object and its metrical on the reflection and move any of the vertex you will see that the opposite axis any of one you have select the reflecting take command on X, Y or Z the axis move with the selection. This is also very help full and save over time on some places just keep in mind that it’s there because we might use this also in out object we are going to make. Now we are ready to move on let’s stat modeling the strawberry.