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Use the NURBS Loft tool

Use the NURBS Loft tool - Maya Tutorial

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Use the NURBS Loft tool

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- [Instructor] Another way to turn curves into surfaces is to use a loft. Now, a loft takes two or more curves and then stretches a surface between them. So, let's create a simple loft. Now, I'm going to create a simple curve and I'm just going to go into NURBS Primitives and create a circle. We'll drag that out and let's go ahead and remodel this into a different shape. So, I'm going to right click over Control Vertex and let's just move a few of these control vertices to create a simple kidney shape. Now, when we loft, we are going to loft more than one curve, so we need at least two or more curves. So, I'm going to go ahead and just copy this curve to create my loft. So, I can copy it by using Duplicate. So, all I have to do is Duplicate or Control+D. So, I've already duplicated this curve and I can scale this up or scale it down. Or, if I want, I can right click over it, go into Control Vertex, and reshape it. And, if I want, I can copy that again. I'm going to hit Control+D…

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