Barrel

So the first thing that we had to do was follow a guide that our lecturer had given us on how to make a barrel on maya. i was at a big disadvantage because i had never used maya before so i had no idea on how to do anything, what tools were what and what they did. So to start off i took it slow and followed the guide at my own pace and i tried my best to keep up with the lecture. As i went through the guide i had found that it had quite a few pot holes in it, for example by following the guide it would lead to making something go wrong and the guide would skip over on how to fix the problem and go straight to the step after fixing the problem. To counter this I asked the lecturer as many questions as i can and when he offered assistance i took him up on his offer, but after getting use to it and going over the guide slowly and what i had done slowly i stated to see solutions, which then allowed me to progress further in the guide.

This is my first attempt at making a barrel, i had gotten the shape down ok but then i proceeded to adding texture to the barrel, this will make it look much more like a real barrel.  the picture on the right is my second attempted which is where i added some basic texturing just so it looks like a real barrel. But then i trie to take it a step further and added more texturing to make it look as realistic as i could. The image bellow is my final attempted, as you can see I added textures that made the barrel out of wood as well as added metal for the rings at to make it even more realistic i also added bolts to the metal.