ABOUT MUDBOX
Autodesk's Mudbox is a *digital sculpting and texturing tool for 3d artists.  It was developed with an interface that closely resembles that of traditional 3d packages. So with any prior 3d experience Mudbox is easy to learn.  Now that it is owned by Autodesk it is fully compatible with their other products Maya and 3dsMax, but it will export to other programs too.  Mudbox has just expanded it's functionality to include texture painting and shading.

*Digital Sculpting is the process of using tools on extremely high polygon meshes.  These polygon counts can exceed into the millions, and the process is very intuitive much like sculpting real clay. more...