Software Review – Autodesk Mudbox, Softimage, And MotionBuilder 2012
The Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites give artists and production facilities a full set of tools all in one package. There are two suites, one that includes Autodesk Maya, and one that includes Autodesk 3DS Max. The Standard option gives you Autodesk Mudbox, and Autodesk MotionBuilder. With the Premium option, you also have access to Autodesk Softimage. This review covers all three products.
Mudbox 2012
Mudbox is a brush based 3D sculpting and painting application built to address the needs of digital sculpters and texture artists. Mudbox was first used to help in the 2005 Peter Jackson remake of King Kong and was created to accelerate the design and sculpting efforts.
It gives digital modelers the capability to manipulate digital surfaces in an organic manner either imported from existing files or generated using one of the basic sculpt templates provided with Mudbox. Completed models can be exported from Mudbox to be lit and rendered in other 3D applications.
It is through the use of a simplified interface that grants for more an intuitive experience in your modeling that Mudbox, gives you the capability to create and render complex details much easier with less of a learning curve. Designed by professional artists from the game, film, tv and design industry, the Mudbox goal is to create production grade 3D artwork.
So what is new with Mudbox 2012?
• UV-Less painting – means that texture artists are no longer required to create UV’s before painting in Mudbox. Now even complex assets comprised of multiple meshes can simply be loaded, and painted right away.
• Large texture datasets – can now be created because of software advances to improve texture and tile management. Now it is possible to paint and manage massive datasets and create the very detailed, high-quality assets, that required by today’s demanding productions. Artists can display and paint hero assets with hundreds of texture maps consisting of billions of texels.
• Paint Layer Masks – and Blend Modes give you the capability to combine and edit paint in powerful nondestructive ways, with new layer masks for paint. Furthermore, 22 new layer blend modes help extend artistic possibilities and offer significantly enhanced compatibility with Adobe Photoshop software.
• Editable stencils – give you the capability to create or edit stencils in Mudbox to create custom stencils for sculpting and texturing using any image. You can make use of available images to rub or project detail onto models, with the new capability to deform stencils to align their texture data to underlying model features. Also, artists can alter existing stencil images or paint new stencils, and tileable stencils can be painted with ease.
source : blogcritics.org
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