Final Project - Head in the Clouds
Here's how the final project turned out! Everyone was asked to model and rig a head and then animate it with dialog that answered the question, "What happened to your body?" Here's my "dude" answering this question.
Everything You Need to Get Started in Mudbox
I wanted to learn how to use Mudbox to refine my models, so I scoured the web and found these great resources:
- What is Normal Mapping? - Ben Cloward's excellent basic introduction to the concept of normal mapping.
- Maya <-> Mudbox Workflow Demo (Part 1: Base Modeling) - Excellent video tutorial off of the official Maya blog that shows some helpful modeling tools in Maya, and practical uses of some modeling improvements in Maya 2010, like soft selection.

