This project is consisted on modeling Mini Cooper car with NURBS in Maya. In other words this is a mechanical modeling project. Maya has variety of tools which can be used for industry standard mechanical modeling. NURBS is a short form for Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines. NURBS modeling is stand on mathematics that is more complex than the mathematics for polygons. For the reason that NURBS modeling needs extra processing, this technique is usually utilize for applications that rendering is completed in advance, such as animation for movies or for animated films. Throughout the project you will learn great techniques in very simple way for modeling a NURBS Car in Maya. We chose a Mini Car image references for this Modeling project. This is an old model car as you have seen one in Mr. Bean’s comedy films often. Throughout the project you will see a sequence of techniques and you won’t find any other 3d modeling feature like Polygons or Subdivisions except NURBs Modeling.

You will model almost a complete car in different parts. From part first where you will set up image references to part 14 where you will model NURBS tire for Mini car, you will model different parts of car. Although we have covered almost all of the parts of the body of a Mini Cooper but there are still many parts like engine, staring, seats, door handles etc that are not covered in this project. We left them for next project of a latest model car like BMW which you maybe find on this website.

In this free video tutorial you will learn modeling side panels of NRUBS car model such as doors, pillars, screens etc. After this tutorial you will be able to model a NRUBS car of your own in Maya.

In this text and image tutorial you will learn Modeling side panels of a vehicle in Maya’s NURBS feature. You will use and learn new tools, commands, options and techniques that are mostly used in NURBS mechanical modeling in Maya. You will model doors, pillars, screens, and other parts of side panels with 2 dimensional CV curves and then you will make NRUBS surface by converting those 2 dimensional lines into 3 dimensional object.

You have done very good work. Now we shall make main body of the car, in next steps you will model back body, wind screen, roof and other details of the Mini.
Part 5 of project NURBS Car Modeling has been finished.

In this video tutorial you will learn how to model a car Wheel with NURBS in Maya. After this tutorial you will be able to model props and additional parts of vehicles with NURBS in Maya software. This video tutorial is 14 and final part of our NRUBS car modeling project. In this tutorial you will model 3d Tier for Mini Cooper Car with NURBS in Maya. You will use NURBS CV curve tool for creating wheel basic object and you will continue with the same primitive for other pieces. Likewise you will use the curve and extrude along curve option for creating wings for a car bumper. The NURBs modeling take less time as compared to polygonal modeling method. The modeling that you create in hours while using polygonal modeling method, can be formed in NURBs modeling in a matter of seconds. In NURBs modeling, the extrude commands helps you to work easily for complex modeling. The NURBs modeling basically based on curve or line which can be modified with extrude command in complex modeling. The polygon and NURBs are two main menus of Maya. In latest version of Maya, the NURBs are known as surfaces. You have to choose relevant menu for your modeling before working on any project.

In this step 1 you will set up reference images for our mini cooper model.

This lesson is part 1 of our NURBS modeling project. In this lesson we shall learn how to set up reference images in the scene for our modeling task. But firstly as an essential step you need to create a new project for very good management of files, images, and all other necessary stuff. If you don’t know creating and setting a new project in Maya you should watch our video tutorial in basics chapter of this website,

Watch now how to create a new project in Maya.

First of all you need reference images of your car real model. If you don’t have your own reference, you may use following images as references. Simply right click on the images and save them in your hard drive. Keep in your mind that you have specific values of width and height in pixel units for each image reference. And keeping your aspect ratio is too much necessary for modeling some mechanical or some architectural object.

Let’s start our lesson,

Note: Now you need to increase the far distance of perspective camera because you cannot see so far in this unit system.

Note: Now you need to switch on back face culling

Note: Now you will no more see back faces during working with CVs

Note: when you switch on the Backface Culling you don’t see the image from its back, thus you feel easy during creating and duplicating new CV curves.

First part of this video tutorial project is finished.

In this free video tutorial you will learn how to model NURBS Car headlights in Maya. After this tutorial you will be able to model different type of headlights, search lights and indicators for any type of vehicle with NURBS in Maya. The car model is designed here with reference image technique. Then there are used NURBs primitives to make different parts of the car model. There are two ways for creating modeling, either with polygonal primitives or NURBs primitive. Here is the car model is being created with NURBs primitives. The car modeling process is too lengthy and complex to understand; therefore it is split into parts. This video tutorial is the part 11 of NURBS Car modeling project with NURBS in Maya. In this tutorial you can learn modeling NURBS headlights in Maya for vehicles.
In this tutorial you will learn using simple techniques for complicated tasks. You will simply model single headlights with NURBS primitive sphere and you will duplicate it on opposite side for second light. Vehicles headlights have covers surrounding them, you will create a cover using loft command but you will have to create curves from NURBs primitive sphere first. The video tutorial link is given in the end of this tutorial so that you may view the concept more easily.

This free tutorial is about how to animate the 3D gear with simple technique of animation. There are two parts of this project, in part 1 you will learn how to model the 3D gear and final part will show you the animation of 3D gear. As you know that almost every kind of objects are created with Polygonal primitives and design for gear are created with polygonal cylinder and with complete geometry setting finally it shaped as 3D gear. After this tutorial you will able to model and animate the 3D gear yourself. This project is very useful for engineering because of its mechanical modeling. This project is simple and easy because it is consisted on only 2 parts. One is 3D Mechanical Modeling and the other is 3D Mechanical Animation with Dynamics feature of Maya. We’ll model a very simple gear for you so that you become familiar with wedge face techniques. This project is understood only by the average or expert of Maya application because of its difficult and advanced commands. Gears have unlimited types and shapes, we have done only one in this tutorial, you may find more modeling techniques and gears shapes from our website. Here you are given related category of Maya projects which is complete guide of the Maya users.

The following tutorial is guiding you about unique Maya modeling tutorials of 3D rocket animation. There are proper series of this project tutorial and it is very first of all. The next tutorial also describes about different function of projects from initial stage to final stage. You can say that by following the direction from this tutorial you can learn Maya modeling techniques very easily at one stage. Because of lengthy concept, the project is being divided into parts and each part contains very informative points about Maya modeling and animation. This project has been prepared for you as a go through the course of great 3d software Maya. If you follow the lessons in this project you will definitely be able to do a lot within Maya, because through this project you will learn creating a project, modeling objects such as a rocket or ship, creating its trail with dynamic particle flow, making animation on squashing objects, assigning materials to the objects, assigning texture, making your own texture in Maya hyper shade, painting 3d object directly in 3d workspace, creating dynamic rigid active and passive bodies, blocking keys, creating lights for the scene, aiming light to the objects, creating cameras in the scene, animating cameras and making the following some moving object, rendering scenes with batch render and much more. The next parts are also attached with this link in a sequence of collective work. At the final stage when you render the scene, it shows you about final state of your scene. Thus you can save the scene any format that you need.

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In this video tutorial you will learn how to model a car bumper with NURBS in Maya. After this tutorial you will be able to model props and additional parts of vehicles with NURBS in Maya software.

This video tutorial is part 13 of our NRUBS car modeling project. In this tutorial you will model 3d bumper for Mini Cooper Car with NURBS in Maya. you will use NURBS primitive cylinder for creating bumper basic object and you will continue with the same primitive for other pieces. Likewise you will use the curve and extrude along curve option for creating wings for a car bumper.

In this video tutorial you will learn how to model a NURBS grill for a car in Maya. After this tutorial you will be able to model many objects for a vehicle in Maya with NURBS.


This tutorial is part 12 of NURBS car modeling project. In this part you will model front grill for NURBS car in Maya. We have chosen a Mini Cooper’s model for our project. In this part you will use create CV tool, Duplicate surface curves, attach curves and extrude a curve along another curve. As well as you will create grills by using loft tool and at the end you will create a NURBS ring for surrounding the whole grill.