Introduction to Mudbox 2012

In this series of lessons you will get a ground up look at the powerful sculpting and texture painting application, Mudbox. We will begin by taking a look at the Mudbox interface and talking about the basics of working with geometry in Mudbox. We will cover methods for getting geometry into Mudbox, how to transform it around the scene, and subdivide it in preparation for sculpting.

We will begin by taking a look at the Mudbox interface and talking about the basics of working with geometry in Mudbox.
We will cover methods for getting geometry into Mudbox, how to transform it around the scene, and subdivide it in preparation for sculpting.
We will proceed from there by using a project based approach to cover the sculpting and painting tools.
We will also create our own Vector Displacement Maps that we can use to sculpt.
We will talk about changing our tool properties to get different results and using stamps and stencils to create various looks.
We will go over some on-target presentation features in Mudbox and move on to painting textures.
We will cover the Mudbox paint layer functionality and talk about new features in 2012 like uv-less PTEX painting and layer masks.
We will talk about the Pose tools and painting opacity maps for our meshes.
We will finish up by talking about how Mudbox integrates with other applications like Photoshop, Maya, 3ds Max, and Softimage.

Lessons:
1. Introduction and project overview 1 min. 17 sec.
2. Overview of the user interface 11 min. 29 sec.
3. Navigating the 3d view 5 min. 27 sec.
4. Using Mudbox starting points 5 min. 12 sec.
5. Importing geometry 5 min. 7 sec.
6. Subdividing geometry 5 min. 56 sec.
7. Working with geometry 5 min. 1 sec.
8. Overview of the sculpting and painting tools 8 min. 32 sec.
9. Beginning the dragonfly sculpt 8 min. 13 sec.
10. Detailing the dragonfly body 8 min. 21 sec.
11. Detailing the dragonfly head 5 min. 56 sec.
12. Adding surface detail with stamps 9 min. 13 sec.
13. Using the pose tools to shape the legs 5 min. 41 sec.
14. Sculpting the legs 8 min. 1 sec.
15. Creating and using Vector Displacement Maps 11 min. 2 sec.
16. Using sculpt layers 5 min. 43 sec.
17. Working with materials 6 min.
18. Adding lights to the scene 7 min. 38 sec.
19. Using the viewport filters 7 min. 45 sec.
20. Adding a base color to the body 6 min. 55 sec.
21. Painting the main body color 8 min. 32 sec.
22. Using layer masks to modify the texture 7 min. 25 sec.
23. Adjusting the body color 5 min. 56 sec.
24. Painting the leg texture 6 min. 49 sec.
25. Painting an opacity map for the wings 7 min. 48 sec.
26. Painting the wing color 4 min. 33 sec.
27. Using PTEX to paint the eyes 9 min.
28. Modifying textures with Photoshop 5 min. 54 sec.
29. Extracting maps in Mudbox 5 min. 57 sec.
30. Integrating Mudbox with other applications 7 min. 51 sec.