Chapter 8. 3D Painting

Mudbox 2011 painting tools, paired with an image-editing application such as Photoshop, give you limitless possibilities to paint your digital sculptures. Some of the basics of 3D painting and texturing were covered in Chapter 4, "Painting and Texturing an Imported Model."

This chapter includes the following topics:

  • Painting your sculpture

  • Generating UVs on subdivision levels and painting directly on UVs

  • Painting on layers and using blend modes

  • Using color, stamps, and stencils

  • Workflow to Adobe Photoshop and back

  • Loading textures into Maya

Painting Your Sculpture

At a recent exhibit at the Getty Villa in Malibu, California called The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present, featuring polychrome (multicolored) ...

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