New program to learn - Mudbox

Might be a short post due to the nature of trying to follow the lesson more than trying to blog.

Today's lesson is so far very interesting as we're learning a new program for use, which is Mudbox, which seems to essentially be a fun version of clay modelling, but more seriously its a really impressive modelling/sculpting tool. And the results of using it for an hour or so are.....;




....Interesting to say the least, this program has huge stores of tools and options and appears to be fairly straightforward to learn but difficult to master and to make extensive use of. We've covered so far the tools of Sculpt, Smooth, Grab, Flatten, Freeze, Stencil and Stamp and likely a load more. the program is good at presenting alot of the essential information front and center for the user.



This is from further playing around with the tools, using combinations of stencils with stamps, as well as the use of the bump map which adds some seriously nice looking detail when you paint onto it, it's easy to see how can go way higher than what games can functionally use (as games have to render assets in real time)


To jump straight to the end (I know there isn't alot of explanation here) but the afternoon was dedicated towards trying to work with the dinosaur preset model (I say try because i had a hard time with this) the model was a starting point for us to start modelling it according to some plan (images found on Google basically) and then try to texture it using dinosaur images as stencils. I had a hard time at this point because i choose i slightly unrealistic goal and got a feathered T-rex to try and model, and this slowed me down in trying to shape the feathers.

Eventually i decided to restart and pick a bog standard T-rex looking image and the above was my result, though ultimately I'm not as happy with the result because i wish i'd been more prompt with completing the model (when i say complete i mean just not as unfinished as it is now) 

The expereicne of using Mudbox was extremely interesting and it makes me glad to know that i can get hold of the autodesk software at least for the 3 years while im at University, as it would be fun to play around using the software (and i believe do some more on this model as i think it may be homework).






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