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Mudbox 2016 Essential Training

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Artists: Get everything you need to get the most out Mudbox, including its sculpting, texture painting, and concept visualization tools.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know before watching this course
  • Exercise files
1. User Interface: The Mudbox Environment
  • Understanding the user interface
  • Viewport navigation
2. Geometry and Subdivision
  • Creating primitives
  • Importing models
  • Ideal mesh parameters for efficient subdivision
  • Subdivision options
3. Layers
  • Working with sculpt layers
  • Working with paint layers
4. Sculpting Tools
  • Tool parameters
  • A tour of the sculpt brushes
5. The Sculpting Workflow
  • Organic form and structure
  • Organic medium details
  • Organic fine detail sculpting
  • Asymmetry
  • Hard-surface sculpting
6. Stamps and Stencils
  • Sculpting and painting with stamps and stencils
7. Retopology
  • Understanding retopology
8. Extracting Detail Maps
  • Displacement
  • Normal maps
  • Ambient occlusion
9. Texture Painting in Mudbox
  • A tour of the Mudbox paint brushes and tools
  • Working in UV space
  • Freedom from UVs: Ptex painting in Mudbox
  • Transferring paint layers
10. The Painting Workflow
  • Base painting
  • Projection painting
  • Color correction
  • Using layers
  • Painting details
  • Mudbox and Photoshop live bridge
11. Posing and Deforming with Pose Tools
  • Working with joints
  • Posing
12. Rendering
  • Mudbox lighting
  • Viewport filters
  • Rendering
13. Exporting
  • Exporting your models
  • Exporting textures
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Craig Barr

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