Digital Tutors - 10 Ways to Improve Your Modeling in Maya [repost]

At Digital-Tutors, we've found that many students starting out in modeling have difficulty in creating the specific vision they have. In many cases it's not necessarily a lack of knowledge of the tools as much as it is a lack of confidence and experience. So, to give you a head start on your modeling, we've put together a number of tips collected from production and from teaching students that will help you build the best models you can with minimal frustration.

Lesson Outline (11 lessons)
1. Introduction and Project Overview
2. Breaking Down Your Modeling Project
3. Getting to Know Your Geometry
4. Redrawing Topology
5. Creating Circular Cut-outs
6. Working with Normals
7. Displaying Face Centers
8. Adding Sharp Detail to Curved Surfaces
9. Adding Irregularities
10. Working with Image Planes
11. Methods for Working Symmetrically