Hard Surface Modeling In Maya 2012

Yes there are ngons at the cylinder caps. Those are planar and will not deform so they will render just fine and so I left them there intentionally. The thing with ngons is that if you are working is a studio pipeline or you intend to sell your work you can not always know how your model will be used and ngons can cause problems if the model is deformed or when uv ing and texturing. For this video I did mention that you should strive for all quads and the the