Mudbox 2016 Essential Training

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

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