 "Mudbox's" primary application is high-resolution digital sculpting, texture painting, and displacement and normal map creation, although it is also used as a design tool.Mudbox was developed by Skymatter in New Zealand as the founders David Cardwell, Tibor Madjar and Andrew Camenisch were working on The Lord of the Rings at Weta Digital.They created the software to expand their own toolsets, and was first used as a complete product on King Kong.