As well as the sculpting tools, the painting tools allows you to use the "steady stroke” option, which comes in very handy when painting wrinkles for instance.

I created a stamp for the pores (Fig.08), but used the inbuilt ones for all the rest. Here, you can see the result of the bump map painting inside the view port (Fig.09).



Fig.10 shows the painted bump and the last level of sculpting, so you can see what's geometry and what's not.



Then I exported this channel to Photoshop (Fig.11) and converted the grayscale bump map into a normal map using the Nvidia filter (Fig.12). Mudbox can also convert the bump into a normal map, but exporting the channel to Photoshop allows you to make some color adjustments if needed and the Nvidia filter offers some interesting options to tweak the depth and orientation of the normal map.


Modelling the pullover was based on the same workflow, but I didn't use any normal maps this time, only displacement, since the level of details was a bit lower (Fig.13 – 14).