Mudbox - Session 5

Today's Mudbox session was a little frustrating as I made a mistake with my UVs again, meaning I had to re-do the model. This is something I really need to work on as it continually causes problems for me. This time I didn't realise that my UVs were overlapping, so I couldn't paint my model properly in Mudbox. Also, Mudbox was being weirdly glitchy today, and not letting me sculpt the leaves properly, and I was constantly needing to smooth the model because when I went to use any sculpting tool on the model, it would flatten out and become pixel-y, so I've just left it as this for now and will probably come back to it later. The last thing I need to do for this mini Mudbox project is to add all the fruit I've modeled to a scene and light it. 

Persimmon Maya Block Model

First Attempt at Painting and Sculpting in Mudbox

Second Attempt at Painting and Sculpting in Mudbox

Mudbox - Session 4

In today's class, I finished my apple model and my banana model. The problem with the banana model was that it was too small, once I resized the model the tools worked fine, it was almost frustrating that it was such an easy fix but I'm glad to have sorted out the problem.

Finished Apple Model in Mudbox

Finished Banana Model In Mudbox

We also looked at creating Extraction Maps. I made a normal bump map. I realized when applying the bump map to my model in Maya that I had set up my UVs slightly wrong, I had put the seams in very obvious places e'g, at the top and bottom of my orange and banana models, you can see the seam very clearly. 

First Try Using Bump Maps

Orange Model - Wrong UVs

The seams were rather frustrating to fix. I tried taking the bump map into Photoshop and fixing smoothing the edges of the map. This didn't work, So, I re-did the UVs on my original Maya model and sculpted the banana again. I didn't paint on too much detail as this was just an experiment to see if this would fix the seam issue. 

Rough Model

This is an updated version of the bump map for the banana model. This bump map worked for my model, but something still seems off about it.  I think my UV skills could definitely improve.

New Bump Map for Banana Model