[Russell Sobie]

I can think of five methods of creating stripes:

1. Additive/subtractive: This is where you use a square or rectangle stencil to paint a big blob up against the edge of the shape, adjust the stencil slightly the width of the stripe you want, and then ERASE on the same stencil from the blob you created on the first pass. Early example of that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAaU36RB...veoFC7bt6_
   
2. Straight stencil: Create a stencil that is the shape (or at least just the width) of your desired stripe, and just paint it right on. You can use "Tile Stencil" to extend your stripe stencil to infinity, but I find that you have to line the car up JUST RIGHT to get it down cleanly.
   
3. Export camera to PSD: This is a rather complicated workflow in Mudbox... if it were cleaner/faster I'd probably do it more often. I can't even remember how to start doing it right now (I'm not at my work PC), but basically you get your camera in Mudbox to export a "screenshot" that opens in Photoshop, then you work in Photoshop and bring the result back into Mudbox as a temporary stencil... so you just paint right into it. Here's a livery I did using MOSTLY that technique. It was a pain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdRD5i0H...veoFC7bt6_
   
4. Freehand in Mudbox: By using the "stabilization" in the Brush tool, you can KIND of get away with just painting stripes directly onto a Layer in Mudbox for decent results. Here's me drawing a Metroid freehand on an Audi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E81Nx6E6...bt6_&t=673
   
5. Drawing in Photoshop after you have a rough idea where the mapping is from scribbling in Mudbox: Kind of last resort, but if you want to get really exact lines, stencils might not be the way to go. Example: https://youtu.be/4qDYmV3rC-s?list=PLuctRNPYMkWH86o4_bAv3pZveoFC7bt6_&t=260 
   

There's probably other ways to do it, but those are the ones I've done... at least that I can remember. Boy it's funny seeing some of my early liveries. Before I knew there was a "Flood Color To Layer" button.