How was it creating your first Maya creation?

It was a good experience to learn how to use Maya by ourselves but it is difficult to make everything exactly how you want it to look. I didn't have enough time to put in color because I was fixing every window that I have in my building. So if you want it to look exactly how you want to you need to put in a lot of time especially when you start animating the stuff. So you really have to focus when you start making your animation.

Elements

How to create the shapes?(ratio, angle, and shape)

• The first thing I created would be a rectangle(cube) that is named as building. how I created it would be by going to the main menu> create> polygon primitives> go down to cube and click on the option box. (Channel box details) Translate x(0) y(6) z(0)      Rotate x(0) y(0) z(0)         Scale x(1) y(1) z(1)
• Second thing I created would be a cylinder that is named door. How I created this object is by going to the main menu> create> NURBS primitives> go down to cylinder and click on it when you go down to the selection box you go down to the degrees and put in 180. you just click in the screen. then you go to the channel box or to the move tool and position it where you want the cylinder to be. (Channel box details) translate x(0) y(-0.124) y( 3.19)   rotate x(-90.283) y(0) z(0)    Scale x(1) y(1) z(1)
•  Third thing i created was a sphere named top of building. I went to the main menu > create> NURBS primitives > Click on sphere> go down to the setting box > go to degrees and change it to 180 > click on the screen > go to the rotate tool and rotate the sphere > then go to the move tool and position the sphere on top of the building (Channel  box details) Translate x(0) y( 12.139) z(0) Rotate x(.88.704) y( 5.892) z (0)    Scale x(1) y (1) z (. 5)
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3D proposal

What i am creating in 3D would be a Building in Maya.
      My elements would be 

• 4 rectangles or cubes
• 1 sphere
• 1 cylinder
• 68 squares

What did you face & what did you learn?

How to change the selection mode to a component mode was a problem I faced


What I learned is that you can do some parts by yourself but not if you don't know what you're supposed to be doing

How to rotate and position the Sphere?

You can you use the rotate tool which is the sphere, and you can use the channel box to move the place the sphere is positioned at, so you can change the x, y, or z axis in translate, rotate, and scale it.

Maya Questions

1. How do you add color to the shapes?
2. How do you animate the stuff?
3. How do you make people in Maya?