Mudbox - Software Research

Over the past few weeks I have been using Mudbox to get a basic male character done on it, to help me visualise what the character should look like. I had used YouTube to help me do some of the sculpting on the head, especially a video called ... which had helped me to see how I could form a male face and build up the detail gradually on it. Also, I had used this picture (https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/2534690/uncharted_4_drake_smile.0.jpg) of Nathan Drake from Uncharted 4 to help me see the male facial structure as well as I wanted to have a reference that I could use to refer to. This had helped me a lot to see the different parts of muscle in the face and how everything should be structured on the face, neck and head. Also, I had used another tutorial ... to see how to use the tools like waxing to build up the facial structure of the model that I was making, this was very useful as it had helped me to add more detail, and also I had learnt how to use stamps on brushes and use them to also make detail.

But, some of the time I had problems which I had to fix either myself, with the help of my tutors and peers or by searching online for example. the layers on Mudbox kept on locking themselves and would not unlock, so to overcome this problem, I had to save the document and quit the application, then reopen it and the problem was fixed. Another problem was that I had done a lot of my work and didn't save as often, sometimes the application would close itself and I wouldn't have saved my work. I had looked online to see why this would happen and it had said that the application does this when too many things are going on at once. So, to help prevent a lot of progress from being wiped I had made sure I saved it every so often