Primitive breakdown

The image below is the original robot picture.

This is my break down of this robot into primitive shapes, in 3 views.

Reflection

This exercise allows me to look at things in a much simpler way. In the real world, objects are made up of zillion of atoms, or perhaps even more. Obviously with our current technology, it is impossible to represent these zillion of atoms inside our computer. However, by using lines (just as what we are doing in this exercise)  provided inside Maya, we are able to create a model that is very close in terms of appearance to the object in the real world.

I look forward to learn how to create models such as this in Maya.