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How to Use NURBS in Maya Modeling to Model a Chess Bishop

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The bishop is widely regarded as the most powerful of chess pieces. This video by Andrew Klein will teach you how to make a 3D model of one using Maya. It is meant to help beginners learning the basics of Maya, and focuses on the use of NURBS as part of a 3D model.

The previous three series of videos that form this overarching tutorial can be found here, here, and here.

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