About Mudbox

What is Mudbox?

Autodesk® Mudbox™ is the first advanced, high resolution, brush-based 3D sculpting and painting application built from the ground up to address the needs of the digital sculptors and texture artists. Designed by production artists for production artists working on demanding projects, Mudbox introduces new workflow paradigms and combines familiar concepts in a new and exciting way to offer a unique solution for high-end commercial modeling and painting.

Mudbox is quick to learn, easy to use and integrates well with existing production pipelines.

Who uses Mudbox?

Mudbox users include:

What can you do with Mudbox?

Mudbox is designed for manipulating digital surfaces in an organic manner. Models can be 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.

Otherwise, displacement and normal maps are generated from the high resolution Mudbox model and applied as a texture map on the original low resolution mesh in another 3D application.

Mudbox is great for:

Designing

Detailing

General sculpting

Painting and texturing

Presentation