Autodesk Mudbox

Create and paint extremely detailed 3D geometry and textures. Autodesk Mudbox is a 3D digital sculpting and texture painting software that provides an intuitive, haptic tool set. 

Digital Sculpting Tool 
Create extremely detailed 3D characters and environments with an easy collection of digital tools based on traditional sculpting techniques. 

Paint directly on 3D models. 
Paint directly on your 3D files from numerous channels. 

Advanced retopology tools. 
Create high-quality meshes from scanned, imported, or sculpted data. 

Dynamic Tessellation 
An artist-friendly, camera-based process allows you to add resolution to a mesh just where it is needed. 

Features & Highlights

• Traditional artists with no prior 3D knowledge can quickly understand and embrace tools that closely resemble the behavior of their real-world equivalents. 
• Use brushes, stamps, and stencils to quickly sculpt and create realistic textures. 
• Use the Layer editor to organize your work. 
• Maximize your workspace by concealing UI elements and manipulating the camera with normal hotkeys. 
• Use several real-time cameras within a scene, such as genuine perspective and orthographic cameras. 
• Save your camera positions. 
• Model based on reference images: each camera has its own picture plane. 
• Smart Focus positions the camera based on the cursor position and brush size. 
• Control your camera with trackball-style controls. 
• Mudbox cameras use the same keyboard shortcuts as cameras in Autodesk Maya. 
• Apply one or more image mappings on any object, regardless of the other objects in the scene. 
• Use smooth shading mode to create a more accurate representation of the limit surface. 
• View many texture channels (including bump and reflection) simultaneously. 
• View multiple maps and materials in the scene with an interactive interface. 
• Work in real time with models that accurately exhibit advanced lighting (including HDRI-based lighting) and shadows. 
• Incorporate complex display settings into your presentation, such as ambient occlusion, depth of field, and tone mapping. 
• Mirror or flip a detail recorded in one or more layers. 
• Edit non-destructively: It provides paintable masks. 
• Quickly duplicate, combine, flatten, and reorganize layers. 
• Blend layers precisely with interactive multiplier sliders and layer masks. 
• Layers are useful for storing morph target libraries. 
• Use smartly designed default brushes, or rapidly customize them for specific behavior and performance. 
• Choose from many base brush types, such as the Sculpt brush, which allows for precise control while creating intricate forms. 
• Flatten brush—allows you to easily form planes and remove detail. 
• Wax brush allows you to simply fill in areas. 
• Use falloff curves and stamps to accurately design your brush tips. A sharp falloff curve will cut an exact, crisp stroke into the geometry, leaving no mushy stroke profiles. 
• The powerful tangent space mirroring functionality allows you to sculpt both sides of topologically symmetrical models at the same time, even if they are in an asymmetrical stance. 
• Use curves to direct brush strokes. 
• Using image stamps, you can quickly brush a realistic texture straight onto your model. 
• Easily add high-quality detail using mesh displacement. To displace your mesh, use 8-, 16-, or 32-bit images; Mudbox even enables displacement with many maps at the same time. 
• Bake high-quality normal and displacement maps over numerous random meshes. Detail can be baked into 8-, 16-, and 32-bit maps. 
• Create smooth, high-quality maps utilizing extraction settings that handle poly faceting difficulties by extracting between the specified models' limit surfaces. 
• Use numerous floating-point maps to displace your meshes. 
• Create normal maps that work with Autodesk Maya and 3ds Max software. 
• Work in real time with 3D models that are fully subdivided into tens of millions of high-quality polygons. Use traditional camera controls to maximize your workspace and reduce "back and forth" operations. 
• Streamline your process with tools like the Hover Pick feature and hotkeys. 
• Asymmetrical mirroring might help you work more efficiently on posed or asymmetrical models. 
• Working on one mesh within the context of others: It allows you to have numerous meshes in the scene. 
• The built-in image viewer, which supports 8-, 16-, and 32-bit pictures, allows you to explore reference images and instantly assign them to stamps, stencils, or camera image planes. 
• Import and export scenes in OBJ format, and import textures in BMP, EXR, GIF, JPEG, PNG, and TIF. 
• Bitmap output formats include BMP, EXR, JPEG, PNG, and TIF. 
• Certain formats are only applicable to specific renderers. 

Please note that this is a 30-day trial version.