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UV unwrapping a head

UV unwrapping a head - Maya Tutorial

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UV unwrapping a head

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- [George] Hi, I'm George Maestri, and today we're going to take a look at UV Mapping, now I know a lot of people don't like UV Mapping, but I'm going to show you a couple of simple processes that make UV Mapping go very, very quickly. And so we're going to map this human head, which is a very common problem that has a complex object. So let's go ahead and just dive in. So first thing I need to do is select my head, and go into my UV Editor, now there is some mapping on this UV Editor, but I'm going to go ahead and take what we have, and just move it off to the side. So I'm going to right click over this, select Shell, and just use my Move Tool, to kind of move this out of the way. Now when we do UV Mapping, we're going to place all of the objects in this area. So what I'm doing is, I'm just clearing out this area, so we have a nice place to work. Now when we UV Map this character here, we've got a couple of things that we need to worry about. We have some complex objects, like the…

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