Prod 142 Technical notes week 5 and 6

• Navigation & Viewports

  • Alt + LMB (Maya) / MMB (Blender) → Orbit view.

  • Alt + RMB (Maya) / Scroll wheel (Blender) → Zoom.

  • Alt + MMB (Maya) / Shift + MMB (Blender) → Pan.

  • Spacebar (Maya) → Switch viewports.

  • Numpad 1/3/7 (Blender) → Front/Right/Top orthographic view.

  Modelling Basics:

  • W/E/R (Maya & Blender) → Move/Rotate/Scale.

  • Tab (Blender) / F8 (Maya) → Toggle Object/Edit mode.

  • Ctrl + A (Blender) → Apply transforms (scale/rotation).

  • Insert Edge Loop Tool (Maya) / Ctrl + R (Blender) → Add edge loop.

  • Extrude (Maya: Ctrl + E / Blender: E) → Pull out faces.

  • Merge Vertices (Maya: Edit Mesh > Merge / Blender: M → At Center) → Clean up geometry

  Object Management

  • Outliner (both Maya & Blender) → Keep scene organized.

  • Shift + P (Maya) → Parent objects.

  • Ctrl + P (Blender) → Parent with object.

  UV / Texturing Maya: 

• UV → Automatic Mapping / Planar Mapping if stuck.

• Blender: U → Smart UV Project for quick unwraps.