本教程是由Digital-Tutors机构出品的Mudbox 2012综合指南高级教程，时长：2小时58分，附工程源文件（393M），使用软件：Mudbox 2012或以上版本，作者：Justin Marshall，官方 发布时间：2011年12月01日。
Autodesk® Mudbox™ 由电影、游戏和设计行业的专业艺术家设计，为三维建模人员和纹理艺术家提供了创作自由性，而不用担心技术细节。Mudbox 是一个杰出的数字雕刻和纹理绘画解决方案，结合了高度直观的用户界面和强大的创作工具集，可用于制作超逼真的三维模型。Mudbox 打破了传统三维建模软件的模型，提供了一种包括二维和三维层的基于笔刷的有机三维建模体验，可以轻松管理多个网格和贴图上的雕刻与绘画迭代。您也可以在一个目标环境中评估或呈现您的作品，从而确保准确、逼真的结果。
开发团队的高端影视行业背景更使得该软件拥有无与伦比的性能。据称 weta 已经在生产线上彻底放弃了 Zbrush，而转向目前仍在Beta开发中的这款神秘雕塑建模软件 Mudbox。Mudbox 已在去年被用于《金刚》的制作生产线中。
以制作《指环王》《金刚》《纳尼亚传奇》而闻名于世的着名CG特效公司已经在生产线上彻底放弃了Zbrush软件，而转向一个目前神秘雕塑建模软件Mudbox。
Digital-Tutors Artist Guide to Mudbox 2012
In this course, we’ll use a project based approach to cover the tools in Mudbox 2012 and we will explore some of the ways you can put them to use to get great results. Mudbox is a great tool for 3d artists that provides a really robust sculpting and texture painting solution. It's available for windows, Mac, and Linux and it integrates seamlessly with many of the other applications you may be using. For these tutorials, we’ve had the privilege of working with the Mudbox team at Autodesk in developing this training and we really do appreciate their feedback and support. For these lessons, we’ll use a project based approach to cover the tools in Mudbox and different ways of using them to get the best results. Throughout the course of this project, we’ll cover the basics of getting started working in Mudbox, from sculpting to painting to extracting maps. We’ll also cover the new features in Mudbox 2012, including the uv-less PTEX painting process, new paint layer functionality, stencil editing, and more. Every artist is different. As you go through the training, don’t get too caught up in getting results that match exactly, but have some fun experimenting with the tools and really try to understand how you can fit them into your particular workflow. If you’re just starting out using the software, you might go through the training once to get a good overall picture before you try to follow along. For those artists who just want to check out some of the newer features, feel free to jump around to the various topics as you like.