Week1 Coffee cup

Week1

Coffee Cup

This is my first time ever to use Maya, so bear in mind all mistakes are necessary for me to learn. I forgot to take screen grabs as I was going along so I could show my progress, so I had to start from scratch.  This was hard for me as this is my first time using Maya and I'm still not familiar with all the buttons.  I also forgot to get the reference image from the resource drive so I grabbed one of the net.

Figure1: Coffee cup. Retrieved from: http://www.coffeehunter.org/flat-white-coffee-origins/white-coffee-cup/

Figure2: Base of cup

I placed my coffee cup picture onto a plane and moved this to one side of my workspace. I then created a box in the middle of the workspace which when using the extrude tool will become the base for my cup.

Figure3: The cup in box mode

 Using the extrude tool I added more layers to my cup till it reached the top of the reference image. I went five boxes high, this meant that I had a good equal spot when creating the handle. I selected the top face of my cup and using the scale tool created a lip and extruded it down inside the cup.

Figure4: Extruding the handle

 Switching between 1 and 3, box and round modes respectively I knew that i had to add more curve into my handle to get a better round one.  To do this I used the edge loop tool to create more geometry for me to manipulate.

Figure5: Handle progress

After creating a better, rounder my natural looking handle I used the edge loop tool again to ground my cup.  This helps making it appear as though it is not floating in thin air.

Figure6: Final cup

 In figures 6 and 7 Is my final coffee cup, rendered with a matte plastic material

Figure7: Final cup

 I'm still not happy with the slightly not round handle may fix this at a later point.

Figure8: Cup play

 Just playing around with different materials on the cup. Eg: Thin glass.

Figure9: Cup play

 The night club coffee cup, great for your Irish coffees.

Figure10: Steel cup

My favourite coffee cup is the one in Figure10. I think that the simple steel cup is more believable in a its structure and material than the rest of the cups I created. Its slightly stained look gives it more appeal.