 Okay, so we're going to make a start on getting this barrel made and As always the first thing I want to do is set a new project for this so We're going to click on file. We're going to go to project window and I'm going to make a new project I'm going to call it barrel Because it's a barrel so good name and the location just because I like to keep all my things to Like somewhere I can see them and then I tend to move them later I'm going to put it on my desktop for now and Then all of these folder names are going to be fine. So I'll click on accept Okay with that done what I now want to do is find the images I will need and so I'm going to go out to environment textures.com which is just here That's lovely big staring man looking at me Okay, so this just so happens to be the sponsor for this video as well So I'll give them a shout out. This is what I'm currently using to find pretty much all of my reference images and texture files as well So what we need first of all is a picture of a barrel to work from so the search function on here is pretty good So if I search for a barrel I'm hoping that's what I find Lovely, so I can see there are lots of metal Oil drum looking barrels But the kind of barrel I want is the first hit which is this handsome looking barrel right here. Oh That's nice Okay, so I think I'm going to use this to work from I probably I'm going to make a little change I don't think I want that metal band on the top But I think I do want these four and the proportions look good. So I'm going to take this so if I click on this I'll have that one ready to go Right, I'm also going to need some texture files for this You can see I'm probably going to need a wooden one and a metallic one as well So I think what I'll do next is I'll look in categories And there's some really good wooden ones. So let's go to Wood Yep, and the sort of thing I'm looking for I think in this instance is going to be planks and probably bear Bear is in no pain to anything not bear is in a bear made out of wood That'd be ridiculous Okay, so let's see what we've got here Something that looks nice and barely This is quite good. I think I want something that looks a bit Bit more aged. I'm going to go with this one So I'm going to try and make my barrel look a bit more gnarly than the one in the reference I quite like this. So I'm going to take this image as well. I think There's just got some nice scratches and things on it So I'm hoping that'll come through nicely in the normal map that will create so I'm going to take that one Right, I need some metal next So let's find something metallic Let's try plate metal Galvanized metal doesn't look bad. Maybe that's the one I'll go for or scratches metal. Let's try scratches I'd already kind of decided on the other two I was going for but I hadn't decided on My my metallic one these look nice. I might go one of these they're good Yeah, let's see what this one looks like at the top this one and The good thing about these textures is they're all really high resolution Maybe I'm not a massive fan of that one Try the next one. What's this one like? It's got bits on it. I don't like the bits. Let's keep searching Okay, so we're not going to go scratchers. Well, we might we might come back to scratchers But let's have a look at galvanized Yeah, I like this one. So I'm going to go for metal plate three that should give me something to mess around with Yeah, so we'll save that one as well Okay, so I've got my three Materials So I'm going to want to do is find my barrel project Just stick that over there and in my sourcing we just folder which is where all your texture should live I'm going to drop these one To Let's put the one three So we've got wood Barrel and that will be there the galvanized metal. Let's rename these ends. So I'll have metal Barrel reference and Wooden okay, so That is the images found. So thank you very much environment textures Thank you for sponsoring this video and thank you for providing me with some beautiful pictures. That's wicked Right, we can kill that for now And then the next thing we need to do is get back into Maya and set up the reference image So I'm going to go into my front view. I believe and I'm going to click on view. I'm going to go to Image plane and import image and because I've put my images in the right place, which is a very good practice I can see my barrel reference image. So I'll open that There it is and what I'm going to want to do is Is move that up so that it kind of sits Roughly on the bottom now. There's obviously some perspective to this image that kind of needs to be addressed But as long as it's in roughly the right place, I'll be able to work with that Okay, so that about wraps up the first part which is Kind of preparing you seen so making sure that you've got your reference image and your texture files ready And the next step will start building the high poly version of the barrel I will see you there in the next step Bye