How To Make A Rocket Model with Particle Trail

In this tutorial I’m going to explain you how to create rocket using nurbs, and after that animate its group using path curve. Also I’ll show how to make simple smoke trail. Nurbs modeling in maya very simple and easy. I think this tutorial is perfect for nurbs modeling. This tutorial will learn you that how to make a rocket in maya by nurbs.

Initial go to create/CV curve tool.

Next just click to make points. Make easy profile for rocket. If you make a error just press delete and the point will be deleted. When you finish push enter.

Thus you shall get something like this

After that choose that curve and go to Surface/revolve option box

In options window set it to rotate around Z axis

Thus you got easy rocket geometry