This makes it very appealing to those who want to achieve photorealistic, hyperrealistic results (a lot of the triple a companies such as EA Sports and so on)
Why Sculpt and not use a 3d package like 3DS or Maya?Ĭompared to traditional modelling Sculpting can create details that otherwise would be very difficult or impossible to create in a traditional 3D techniques. The the cube itself is quite crude however that does not matter as I’m only using it to show off how sculpting works To demonstrate the tools I imported a cube into Mudbox and played around with the different types such as sculpt, smooth, grab etc. This personally made it very easy to start sculpting which makes the software a lot more accessible to learn and come to grips with compared Pixologic’s Zbrush which i will go into later on. The thing I like about Mudbox is that the tools are fairly self-explanatory by going off the icons alone. Within Mudbox you are given a selection of sculpting tools like the ones shown here you can often see clay sculptures that 3D artists would have created to guide the film.Īlso in the automotive industry manufacturers hire designers to create sculpts to envision 2D concept drawings into a 3D reality. If you look at behind the scenes in VFX heavy movies. Traditional Sculpting is actually quite prevalent in the entertainment and industrial design.
The whole idea behind sculpting digitally, Mudbox in particular, is that you are using virtual clay, likewise the tools can add “clay” or subtract it from the sculpture very similar to real clay sculpting. Like many 3D Sculpting software Mudbox sculpts using different tools and brushes you can change the size, strength of your brush and even use a “stamp image” which from what i understanding uses a normal map of some sort? I’m not sure exactly but you can see the “stamp image” function on the top right of the cube image below for a visual understanding. Screenshot of Mudbox (The model is not mine) Quoting from the Mudbox website – “Mudbox® digital painting and sculpting software provides 3D artists with an intuitive and tactile toolset for creating and modifying 3D geometry and textures.” This essentially means Mudbox is a software for digital sculpting The Software package I will be using is Autodesk Mudbox. Before I go ahead and show off my head sculpt (currently a work in progress) I would like to give a bit of background on the tools I will be using for the task in hand.
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