Mudbox 2009: 'From the Ground up' Free HD tutorial series

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Mudbox 2009: ‘From the Ground up’ 

 [b]'Wave 1'
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 [b][Part 1 - UI and Navigation (26 mins)](http://area.autodesk.com/index.php/tutorials/tutorial_index/groundup_series_mudbox_2009_navigation_and_ui/)
 
 [Part 2 - Selections (8 mins)](http://area.autodesk.com/index.php/tutorials/tutorial_index/groundup_series_selections/)
 
 [Part 3 - Normal and Displacement maps (6mins)](http://area.autodesk.com/index.php/tutorials/tutorial_index/groundup_series_normal_and_displacement_maps/)
 
 [Part 4 - Layers (7 mins)](http://area.autodesk.com/index.php/tutorials/tutorial_index/groundup_series_layers/)
 
 [Part 5 - Brushes (including hard surface sculpting tutorial)(45mins)](http://area.autodesk.com/index.php/tutorials/tutorial_index/groundup_series_brushes/)
 
 [Part 6 - Hard Surface texturing  (41mins)](http://area.autodesk.com/index.php/tutorials/tutorial_index/groundup_series_hard_surface_texturing/)

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 Parts 1-4 are now up with the rest to follow every other day.  To watch at full resolution press the full screen button and then the 1:1' button.
 
 Wayne...
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Just started watching the series Wayne.i have to say:what you are planning is very exciting.
and certainly very generous.

Cheers mate,looking forward to this big time.:beer:

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Thankyou very much, the Quickstart series is going nuts with bandwidth and I’ve started to syndicate it out to some other sites to take the load off a bit. There’s plenty of interesting stuff yet to come.

Wayne…

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Part 3 covering the generation of normal and displacement maps is now up.

Wayne…

#5

Excellent, watching now… Cheers Wayne…

Rich

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Hi Wayne!
That wouldn’t be a Glaswegion accent now would it? When I hear your voice it reminds me of my hero Connely :smiley: .
Great vids. On the first one you talk a little about your rig specs. Could you write them down here. I am only getting 2 mil atm (which is better than a firecracker up yer jacksie but not much) and would like to see what you are using for comparison.

Anyhow great work and a delightfull presentation.
Cheerio Chris

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I don’t know who would be more offended:The Scotsman or the Englishman!!:wink:

If a glasgow boyo was narrating a VTM you wouldn’t understand a word.lol.

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Kanga: Here’smy system specs of my main machine (I’ve also got an 8gig usb drive acting as ready boost as well):

OPERATING SYSTEM
Name: Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Version: 6.0.6001
Service Pack: 1.0
Architecture: 64-bit
Registered User: Wayne
Language: 1033
Domain Role: 0
Total Physical Memory: 8189 MB
Total Virtual Memory: 8388607 MB

PROCESSOR
Number of Processors: 1
Logical Processors: 4
Manufacturer: GenuineIntel
Name: Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q9450 @ 2.66GHz
Version: Model 7, Stepping 7
Description: Intel64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 7
Address Width: 64
Number of Cores: 4
Max Core Speed: 2666 MHz

VIDEO
Card Name: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
Memory: 1024 MB
Driver Name: nvd3dumx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2umx.dll, nvwgf2um
Driver Version: 7.15.11.7813
Video Mode: 1280 x 1024 x 4294967296 colors
I’ve not tried soft modding this particular Gcard into a quadro yet, (as I do with others on my machines often) but when I do I’ll be sure to report back my findings.

Musashidan: Well I’ve had alsorts of locations put forward as to my accent lol. I live in north west durham (so technicaly not ‘geordie’) although it sightly messed up due to living some of my early years in yorkshire as well.

But yeah, its usually not terribly advisiable to call scottish people english and visa-versa in my experience (I’ve family from scotland…)…I think we’ll bypass entirely the hatred of scots of being called ‘scotch’ … I dont get wound up over it though a its unfair to expect people to know every main accent in every country. So it wont be ‘raining heeds’ quite just yet. :wink:

Wayne…

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No offense intended.
Thanx muchly for the specs.

Cheerio Chris

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Non taken Chris. :slight_smile:

Wayne…

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Mudbox 2009: ‘From The Ground Up’ - Layers

Part 4 is now up covering layers. Thhis is the last of the shorter ones for a while, thing start to get a bit longer after this.

Wayne…

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Part 5 : Brushes (45 mins) now up

Part 5 - Brushes (including hard surface sculpting tutorial)(45mins)

This one covers brushes in depth and includes a hard surface sculpting tutorial. Well be using this a hard surface sculpt for the texturing section in the next few.
Enjoy.

Wayne…

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Wayne,ye feckin boy ye!!:applause: i thought you’d burned yourself out and forsaken us mere mortals.cheers mate,i’ve been checking this forum every 20 mins for this next installment.

Keep em comin me oul chum.:smiley:

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Nah I just had a nasty does of flue thats all, plus I needed to do some client stuff to help bring the pennies in. While myself and Autodesk would love nothing better than to put each wave up at the same time, due to the ammount of hits they are getting thats simply impossible. thats why they are being staggerd…its costing them a bomb as it is to make them available.

There’s still plenty in the can left to come yet…thats not counting the new stuff I’ve been recording the last 48 hours.

Wayne…

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Thanks again wayne.we all really appreciate the tremendous time and effort required to make this possible.

Also,from the many examples(in your many vids all over the web) i am hugely impressed with mudboxes real time rendering and it’s complete simplicity to implement.especially your recent example which compared a max MR render to an MB realtime render.simply beautiful!!

Cheers again wayne:applause: glad your flu’s cleared up.(and not in a selfish way!lol)

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Hard surface texturing (last of wave 1) now up

Part 6 - Hard Surface texturing (41mins)

Here’s the link to the last videos of wave 1 of the Ground Up series…expect the start of wave 2 in a day or three.

Well it’s been a helluva week and looks like someone has takenvery big exception to this series and the QuickStart one. In the last 2 week Ive had 2 attacks with drive killer taking out over 4 terrabyte of drives (and turning them into paperweights…along with the last year of work) and tonght my paypal account hacked… is that going to stop the series? No chance :wink: I don’t give in to bullies.

Wayne…

PS in case anyone thinks I’m being an attention seking loony I have proof of the above happening…I know I’d have trouble beliving it if I read someone posting this…

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WTF!
I would of thought autodesk would be overjoyed with these tutes, cant be them. Ok Wayne, who’s chick did you steal? Anyhow a good wakeup call to all of us to get drives not online. I am very sorry for your loss, but that wont bring back those zeros and ones unfortunately.

I have enjoyed your series (and accent :slight_smile: ) alot so far, keep em comin soldier.
Cheerio Chris

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Well my wife would hand my gonads on a washing line if I was ever to even borrow someones significant other lol. Wthout some heavy work by the behind the scenes people at Autodesk this series wouldn’t have been possible to share for free. I know that they get bad press from time to time (well 99% of the time, which is odd as there are virtual monopolies in other areas of 3d that get magicaly ignored…lol), but I speak as I find and they’ve been great to me…and yes even before the vids were mentioned, and even beofre anyone other than my wife knew who I was.

There’s many more to come, and I’ve no intention of stoping any time soon. I’m glad you’ve been enjoying them, although obviously someone out there really hates my accent lol.

Wayne…

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Yes,… I use 5 apps for a model and only one is max (autodesk) so the fear escapes me. There are a zillion packages out there.

Now be a nice chap and disconnect those backups from your network :slight_smile:

thumbsup man.
Chris

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The backup drive is safely away in a cupboard tucked up with nice pilow and some hot chocloate, where it wil stay for the time being.

Wayne…