Autodesk Mudbox

Autodesk® Mudbox™ digital sculpting and texture painting software gives modelers and texture artists the freedom to create 3D digital artwork as if they are working with clay and paint. Designed by professional artists in the game, film, television, and design industries, Mudbox combines a highly intuitive user interface with a powerful creative toolset of stencils and brushes to help create ultra-realistic 3D characters, engaging environments, stylized props, and more. Available for the Macintosh® computer and Microsoft® Windows® operating systems.

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Tools for the Productive 3D Modeler

Mudbox delivers high-performance tools that are easy to use and easy to integrate into a production pipeline:

  • Intuitive, brush-based sculpting—Sculpt highly detailed 3D models more quickly and precisely.
  • 3D high-resolution painting—Paint in 3D faster across multiple textures and shading channels.
  • 3D layers—Paint and sculpt nondestructively.
  • Texture baking for film and game pipelines—Bake normal and displacement maps.
  • Real-time 3D graphics workspace—Create 3D models with in-context shading and lighting that more closely mimics the final output.
  • Interoperability—Exchange data with Autodesk® 3ds Max®, Autodesk® Maya®, Autodesk® Softimage®, and Adobe® Photoshop® software.
  • SDK—Customize, extend, and integrate Mudbox into your pipelines.

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"The introduction of Autodesk Mudbox 2009 sparks a revolution in computer graphics tools, bringing about a paradigm shift in how designers and artists do their work."

—Habib Zargarpour
Senior Art Director
Electronic Arts