Creating the dashboard

Most of the work that will go into modeling the dashboard and the floor is the…same time type of work that we've been doing so far.…Blocking in a shape, tweaking it, mirroring it, using holding edges and so on, nothing new there.…However, there are a few little tips and tricks that I want to touch on that involve the dashboard.…Things like transparent objects, modeling at an angle and some duplication tricks.…Let's get down to it.…One thing about the Dashboard is that it's not really visible in any of…the blueprint views.…For example, the side view, you can't see it, you can't even really see it in the top view.…

Let's look at our photo reference.…You can tell that it's definitely at a slight angle, but without the ability to…know exactly what angle it is, I just had to eyeball it and get it as close as I could.…Let's go back into Maya, and I'm going into my Perspective view and let's select…the Dashboard and Rotation.…So I just had to kind of rotate it until it looked good. You might notice…