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Booyar
08-30-2009, 01:54 PM
...hey there.
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...ive been checking out Mudbox especially since its landed on OSX. i LOVE the amazing 3D work ive seen so far.
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...wanted to know if anyone has had any experience in modeling characters in Mudbox and then animating them in Maya which is the what im aiming to do.
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...are there any links for examples?. ive tried ssearching and found nothing. so any help there would be well appreciated.
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...thanks!...
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oglu
08-30-2009, 02:53 PM
there is no magic in creating an animateable char for maya...
its the same if you use zbrush...

model a basemesh...
sculpt the character or parts of it...
create a new topology for it if the old one is not animateable...
bake a displacementmap and bring all the stuff to maya...

http://community.softimage.com/tutorials/scorpion_production_workflow
InfernalDarkness
09-01-2009, 07:58 PM
I agree. Animating a character sculpted from Mudbox is no different than animating a character not sculpted from Mudbox. If you've done proper rigging and modeling, and of course your UV's need to work, the displacement or normal mapping end of things is just a rendertime feature. The actual animation work is identical.
Booyar
09-03-2009, 08:30 AM
...hey thanks for clearing that up for me!.
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