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Model the floor base

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Model the floor base

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- [Instructor] So continuing on, building the side table here, we're actually going to start working on our tripod base. You'll also notice that I have gone ahead and put in our middle, kind of leg support. Again, that was a really basic shape that started as a cylinder and just adding the extra edge loops with bevels to actually build this kind of shape that it had on there. It's just a revolved surface for that, so that when we hit three you can see we get those nice kind of edges and leveled highlights that we're looking for in all of our high resolution models. So, didn't feel that I needed to kind of show you step-by-step how to build that shape. But this tripod shape here is a little bit of a different challenge and really it's what kind of Maya primitive can help create a three-sided object that's got these flat end pieces here. So we're actually going to start by using the new circle disc, the polygon disc option in Maya. So we're going to start with one of those and go over…

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