UV unwrapping

I did UV unwrapping for the chest and the lid but not the hinges. I noticed the hinges were overlapping exactly so I decided to leave it as is so that it would paint over the other edges of the hinges.

For the Hinges I'm just 

Treasure Chest_Modelling

Though it took me 2 hours modelling the treasure chest was pretty basic. I started using a reference I found from google and then I decided to be a bit abstract in my design. Instead of rounding of the lid I changed it into a pyramid like shape.

To save time modelling I cut my mesh in half and added an inverted instance(mirroring). From experience I've noticed that this actually doesn't invert the normals to facing the inside. usually when I'm done modelling I would just combine both objects and then weld the vertices together.

Introduction to Maya

First navigation project was placing Mr potatoes heads pieces in the right places and to make him exactly symmetrical I simply snapped some of the objects to the center line using X and rotated the piece. Other pieces I used duplicate special  after freezing transformations.

Modify > Freeze Transformations

And then I went to

Edit > Duplicate Special > 

For the duplicate and snapping the crates I noticed they where in line with the grid so I just duplicated and snapped the boxes along the Grid.

X = Grid snapping

C = edge snapping and you can slide it along the edge or bezier curve curve

V = Vertex Snapping

http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2014/en_us/index.html?url=files/Edit__Duplicate_Special.htm,topicNumber=d30e54155

For the Card game I did a trick
L.click = single selection

Shift+L.click = Toggle selection
Ctrl+L.click = deselect

First I moved all the cards up and then Ctrl+click to deselect the matching cards to move the selected cards back down. I also noticed the cards have a local axis so I just simply typed 180 on the rotate Z info on the side bar.

I'm pretty sure this is all I have to do for this exercise