Chapter 1. Getting Your Feet in the Mud: The Basics of the Mudbox Production Pipeline

Digital sculpting and 3D painting software is a relatively recent and significant milestone in computer graphics imagery (CGI). Audiences expect more and more from special effects that suspend their disbelief when the most extreme visions of an author's imagination are brought to visual reality. As movie directors and game designers push the envelope to meet the demands of the market, tools such as Mudbox are becoming a requirement in every visual effects production pipeline.

Mudbox is a sophisticated digital sculpting and painting software package that lets artists sculpt and paint digital models using software as their modeling clay or paintbrush. Mudbox enables ...

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