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This course introduces Mudbox, the Autodesk digital sculpting suite, and teaches digital artists how to create realistic assets in Mudbox, including 3D characters, immersive game environments, and product designs. Author Ryan Kittleson focuses on modeling, sculpting, and texturing, as well as topics such as extracting normal maps and exporting assets to Maya and 3ds Max for further rendering and animation. The final chapter covers techniques for showcasing your work in Mudbox.
Topics include:

    Optimizing a Wacom tablet for Mudbox
    Navigating the 3D space
    Editing materials
    Sculpting with stamps, stencils, and layers
    Creating and importing UV maps
    Texturing with Ptex
    Painting bump maps
    Creating ambient occlusion and displacement maps
    Posing characters with jointed skeletons
    Lighting a scene
    Rendering still images and movies from Mudbox