By Myrna Tobisoo, February 15, 2007
Skymatter Limited, a provider of 3D software tools, announced the immediate availability of a free trial of Mudbox 1.0.4, the company's 3D sculpting software. The free trial offers all the capabilities of the professional version and can be downloaded by clicking here.
Mudbox is a high-resolution, brush-based 3D sculpting software application designed for the professional digital sculptor. Since its public beta debut in December 2005 and official release in December 2006, Mudbox has become a primary tool at visual effects and game development companies, and it recently received the highest ranking of any software on CG Society's retrospective top 20 list for 2006.
The Mudbox toolkit integrates with applications such as Autodesk Maya and SOFTIMAGE|XSI.
Key features and capabilities include:
• Intuitive, user-friendly interface.
• Powerful 3D layering delivers the industry's first true production-tested 3D layers
. Sculpt nondestructively, and store different detail passes, diverse design directions or libraries of morph targets on multiple layers, blending them with multiplier sliders and layer masks.
• Innovative level streaming technology and local subdivision allows for an increase of mesh resolution limits, even on ordinary 32 bit machines.
• True 3D camera delivers perspective and orthographic views. Create, import and delete multiple cameras and camera bookmarks.
• "Tangent Space" symmetry enables symmetrical sculpting on asymmetrical models. An industry first, this unique capability saves time and offers a production-tested technique for working efficiently on posed or asymmetrical models.
• Fast high-quality 3D brushes, including the Mudbox Scratch brush, enable artists to sculpt sharp forms on dense models at any speed without blobby stamping.
• High quality texture baking generates high quality normal and displacement maps between multiple arbitrary meshes.
Mudbox software is available for purchase directly from Skymatter at www.mudbox3d.com. Mudbox Professional pricing starts at US $649. Floating (network) seats and Gold Support options are also available. A non-commercial version, Mudbox Basic, is available for US $299.
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