Archive for March, 2009

Mudbox Lit Sphere Library

A collection of Lit Sphere images Download

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Mudbox 2009 Ambient Occlusion Simplified – Tutorial

With Mudbox 2009 SP1 has the ability to bake AO maps. This is a great improvement in Mudbox and can help tremendously when you start with either painting your mesh in Mudbox or even enhancing your render when used with another 3D application such as Maya or MAX. When you first start the extraction process [...]

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Lit Sphere Material – Closer look Tutorial

“Lit sphere Material” is one of the most over looked feature in mudbox 2009. This tutorial is aimed to shed some light on “how to” use it properly within Mudbox. The 2 main things one need to remember when using such Shader A-    Align the light with the camera B-    Make the sphere slightly bigger [...]

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

UV Texture Grids

Some of the file textures that I use to check poly UVs

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Maya Light Setup Vr. 1

While I was doing some tests in Maya , I created this simple light to render Mudbox sculpts. This light setup will output 1-    Beauty 2-    Ambient occlusion (to be added as a multiplier in post) 3-    Camera depth (to be used to generate DOF in post) There are 2 vr. Maya 2008 (render layers) [...]

Friday, March 13th, 2009