Mudbox 2013 Cookbook

Over 60 recipes to sculpt digital masterpieces like a modern Michelangelo with this book and ebook.

Key Features

• Create amazing, high detail sculpts for games, movies, and more
• Extract high resolution texture maps to use on your low poly 3d models
• Create terrain that you can walk on in a virtual world
• Learn professional tricks that will improve your workflow
• Whether you are opening Mudbox for the first time or the thousandth time, the techniques in this book will enable you to take your skills to a new level

Book Description

What you will learn

• Set up different lighting schemes to bring your characters to life
• Record videos within Mudbox that can be used to enhance your portfolio, create your own tutorials, or to share your process with others
• Create custom brushes that will enable you to replicate the look of any real world texture you choose
• Various ways you can use stencils to quickly bring photo real qualities into your 3D sculpts and textures
• Learn how to bring your 3D models in and out of Mudbox from Maya, 3D Studio Max, or any other 3D modeling package you use
• Use a displacement map to sculpt depth into your models
• Create tiling sculpts so that your extracted texture maps are seamless
• Create a gold bar by recreating the properties of the real world material
• Extract Ambient Occlusion maps to replicate the shadowing of the concave surfaces of your sculpt
• Work seamlessly between Mudbox and Photoshop with layers intact
• Enhance your scene with depth of field by using either viewport filters or the screen distance filter for use in Photoshop

Who this book is for

This book is for 3D modelers and texture artists who are, or would like to be, working in the games, movies, product design, television, medical imaging, or advertising industries. By learning the techniques in this book you will be able to create "next gen" assets for the game industry, create realistic creatures and sets for movies, and add the fine details needed for medical images and animations. Whether you are an Environment Artist or a Character Artist there is much to learn from this book.