Skin multiple NURBS curves?

[ripsting]

I'm designing a logo for a college department and am using Maya's EV curves to model it. It's rather hard to explain my problem, so here's a picture of my WIP:

http://www.fireengine51.org/blender/whale.jpg

I'd like to combine all the curves in the picture and skin them. This is very easy to do in Blender, but I can't export the curves from Blender into Maya...

I've tried lofting, extruding, revolving and stitching. None of them generate the results I want and instead I get a whole jumble of... something completely wrong!

I'd really appreciate the help!

[joojaa]

try creating planar surfs (then set the tesselation high enough).

However what i do is i export them as ai sequences, and let a script fill them appropriately as a batch operation (since all opjects will be in the same order this is rather easy unless some objects dissapear) all then make a swf out of them using AE. Thisway i get the best 2d quality.

[ripsting]

I tried planar surfaces, but it only does 1 curve at a time. I want it to be filled in, but with holes where the other curves are... After I get that right I'm going to extrude it and animate it as a 3D whale swimming through the ocean. This has already been created in swf, so that's not the goal of this.

[joojaa]

Make sure they are closed and select them all at the same time... And if they are all on tha same plane you get just what you want! Works for me atleast.

But yoy will probably want to turn render tesselation on and smootrh edge option to 0.999 for best results. also if you dont it might be hard to se the results properly.

[ripsting]

I had tried planar before and it gave me an error. I finally figured it out- I was selecting an additional non-planar curve with the rest of my model! Now it works perfectly! This is great.

[gmask]

Have you tried the bevel plus plugin?? It works pretty well. Are you plannin gon animating this.. you mention skinning which implies that you wish to bind this to an IK. If so you will have problems deforming this shape as an extrusion and will need to consider another method for modelling it.