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Digital Sculpting

Digital sculpting is the process of creating a high-resolution 3D model with a series of painting strokes, using a pressure-sensitive tablet or screen. Usually the details from these models are baked into a ["Normal Map"] for a lower-resolution in-game model. The most popular programs for digital sculpting are ZBrush, Mudbox, and 3D Coat.

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Character Sculpting

• Shirt, Pants, Facial Sculpting Timelapse Videos - by Mashru Mishu

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Environment Sculpting

• Sculpting for environment stuff - video tutorials - by Sascha Henrichs
  Sculpting a wooden plank, a sandstone rock, and a tiled cliff.
• 3dsmax Environment Modeling #1 Procedural Stone - by Sascha Henrichs
  Using 3ds max procedural modifiers and maps to sculpt a sandstone rock, and easily create multiple variations.
• Stone Tutorial - by Pedro "bitmap" Amorim
  Sculpting a rock using Modo, ZBrush, Meshlab, and Photoshop.

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Tiled Sculpting

• Generic wall tutorial - by Bram "Peris" Eulaers
  Using 3ds Max and Mudbox to sculpt tilable modular sections for a stone wall.
• Rock modeling approaches - from the Polycount boards
  A variety of approaches for sculpting individual rocks and tilable cliffs.
• Creating Perfectly Tiling Meshes in Zbrush for use in Videogame Environments - by Owen "SHEPEIRO" Shepherd
  Using ZBrush's 2.5D canvas to tile stamped meshes, then using Maya to model tilable geometry.
• Creating Tiled Textures and Displacement in Mudbox 2009 - by Wayne Robson
  Painting in Mudbox on the middle of a 3x3 grid where each quad has the same overlapped UVs. (video is about halfway down the page)
• Tileable Stone in Mudbox - by Sascha Henrichs
  Sculpting in Mudbox, loading the displacement map in Photoshop for the offset filter, then fixing the seams with more sculpting in Mudbox.
• Tiling Rock Tutorial in Zbrush - by Stephen Jameson
  Sculpting in Zbrush, loading the normal map in Photoshop for the offset filter, then fixing the seams in Photoshop.

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Optimization & Re-Topology

• Optimisation workflow tutorial - by Bram "Peris" Eulaers
  Using Meshlab to optimize a Mudbox sculpt for import into 3ds Max.

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