Any good mudbox or zbrush books?

l.croxton

Hey I was wondering if any of you fine people could suggest to me some decent books to help with sculpting and includes how to create normal maps for assets etc.

I have already purchased some books before; 3 of them by luke ahearn which have been super useful in general modeling and texture creation.

I know there are alot of good online tutorials, however I feel most of them which are made by the community are full of "urms" and "arrss" plus "errs" haha which are kinda distracting and when I am just getting my head around it, it puts me off and I think "I'll give it another go tomorrow".

So yeah, I have seen a few but if you can suggest any that would be awesome.


Also any decent tutorials would be great. I am aiming for more mudbox than zbrush purely because zbrush has a limited use 45 days and I already have mudbox 2012

pior

All the information about baking can be found here ; if something is not covered, simply read the help then ask here if you cannot figure it out.

As for sculpting in general, you really only need a few hours to know all the Mudbox tools. Everything else comes from regular art knowledge - basically developing one's visual library.

If anything, I would recommend looking at these if you are into character sculpting :

PCF
http://www.pcfstudios.com/

Jordu Schell
http://schellstudio.com/

Richard McDonald
http://www.richardmacdonald.com/

and many, many others ...

ScudzAlmighty

this is a pretty awesome Zbrush book:
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Zbrush-Experts-Techniques-Abilities/dp/1435458974"]Secrets of zBrush Experts[/ame]

lots of tutorials andd samples from stupidly talented people.

Fifa

Some older Mudbox video tuts by Mashru Mishu and Kenichi Nishida here (free but requires login):

http://area.autodesk.com/tutorials/making_of_riot_police_chapter_1_basemesh_review
http://area.autodesk.com/tutorials/making_of_riot_police_chapter_2_sculpting
http://area.autodesk.com/tutorials/making_of_riot_police_chapters_3_4_retopologizing_and_low_poly_mesh_assembly
http://area.autodesk.com/tutorials/making_of_riot_police_chapter_5_texturing

http://area.autodesk.com/tutorials/creating_a_creature_workflow_part_1
http://area.autodesk.com/tutorials/creating_a_creature_workflow_part_2
http://area.autodesk.com/tutorials/creating_a_creature_workflow_part_3

Not books... but free from "urms", "arrss" and "errs".

l.croxton

Hey thanks for the replies .

Sorry about pointing out the urms etc, just when you are frustrated with yourself not being able to do it, things like those get to me a little bit haha.

Thanks again

Permafrost

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/ZBrush-Character-Creation-Advanced-Sculpting/dp/0470572574/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1329761410&sr=8-4"]Amazon.com: ZBrush Character Creation: Advanced Digital Sculpting (9780470572573): Scott Spencer: Books[/ame]
This is one of the first books I purchased over ZBrush. There are many others out there just depends on what you're looking for.