Autodesk has released the 2013 editions of their Entertainment Creation Suites. This offers artists and production facilities access to a powerful range of creative toolsets. There are three editions that have been released - Standard, Premium, and Ultimate. With the Standard edition you get either Autodesk Maya
Mudbox 2013
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's primary use is for high resolution digital sculpting, texture painting, and displacement and normal map creation. It can also be used as a design tool.
Mudbox gives digital modelers the ability 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 allows for more an intuitive experience in your modeling that Mudbox, gives you the ability to create and render complex details much easier with less of a learning curve. Designed by professional artists from the game, film, television and design industry, the goal of Mudbox is to create production grade 3D artwork.
So what is new with Mudbox 2013?
• Customizable Mudbox layout – is now available through dragging, resizing, and close or open the tools and windows in Mudbox. In this way you can create a custom layout based on the way that you work. You can lock your layout so that stays the way you want or you can import and export layouts with friends or other artists.
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