Chapter 3. Detail-Sculpting an Imported Model

In the first chapter, you went through the Mudbox workflow with a relatively simple model of an egg, a model with one part. In this chapter, you will go through a much more sophisticated model with multiple parts.

You had a brief encounter with a low-resolution version of Ashley Wood's robot, Bertie, in the camera section of Chapter 1, "Getting Your Feet in the Mud: The Basics of the Mudbox Production Pipeline." In this chapter, you will work with a high-resolution version of Bertie and do some surface detail sculpting. But before you get started with Bertie, you need to understand some terminology and best practices of bringing models into Mudbox.

This chapter includes the following topics:

  • Modeling ...

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