#Zbrush 4 dvd training manual#

To me, ZBrush is not only its own medium as much as it is an extension of paint and clay, much in the same way that Corel Painter extends and improves on paint and canvas, thus allowing the artist to use traditional techniques in new ways. I have tried to communicate the ZBrush workflow with examples from traditional sculpting and painting technique. This book will be especially useful to those who are coming to digital sculpting with no previous 3D experience. This book seeks to fill that void and offer a training solution for users who prefer to work from printed material at their own pace.

#Zbrush 4 dvd training manual#

Although there is an open and thriving user community, there was a need for a physical manual for working with ZBrush. I have structured the text to start from a basic look at the ZBrush toolset and progress through the entire program into more advanced concepts and tools. Chapter 10: ZSketch and Hard-Surface Brushes.Exporting Directly from ZBrush to Maya Using GoZ.Chapter 9: Normal Maps, Displacement Maps, Maya, and Decimation Master.Chapter 8: ZBrush Movies and Photoshop Composites.Building Accessories with Topology Tools and Mesh Extraction.Moving and Posing Figures with Transpose.Chapter 7: Transpose, ZSphere Rigging, Retopology, and Mesh Extraction.Advanced Techniques: Sculpting the Demon Beast.Importing and Preparing a Mesh for Sculpting.ZBrush and Working with Imported Meshes.Chapter 1: Sculpting, from Traditional to Digital.Have a play and find whats best for your project.How to Use This Book by Scott Spencer ZBrushВ® Character Creation: Advanced Digital Sculpting, Second Edition Optimise your work flow to what suits you best, I hope some of these options will help you out. Im not using displacements as the shapes look pretty damn cool on export and also I find dis maps and maya STILL very temperamental when it comes to render times so its worth checking this option out too. The Hi rez mesh has 20k polys and looks very nice with the shapes moving about. The hi rez have the details on and the low rez are there for purely base mesh target creation. I have two sets of shapes: one hi rez and one low res. Some shapes are more subtle than others, but look nice all the same. I just wanna add that Ive just this week run 30+ blendshapes thru zb and back into maya. Then once back in maya you could set up the displacements maps to coincide with your animation, basically key them at specific places to match the appropriate blend shapes.ДЄlso be aware that regardless of the mesh from maya to ZB, as gster says it will differ and move the geo even very slightly, so its always best to run all your shapes thru Zb even if you dont sculpt them all. Then you could take them into ZB and add detail to them after then export dis maps for each shape. Create them all at the lowest or manageable resolution first in Maya. Also rememeber you can sculpt in zb with a texture 'on' so you can see whats happening while you sculpt and have the best of both worlds. Your textures will still fit back in maya after some sculpting but depending on how extreme you pull the mesh about in zb some tweaks may be needed back in maya, but usually a hit of th relax button should cure them. Rig it all after, if not you can always add blends to a rig after as long as you create them as a parallel shape, and not in default mode, see the options for this in maya. Personally speaking, I'd do the uvs and main color texture before going into Zbrush unless Im doing the texture in zb of course. What I do is get a base mesh thats looking like you want then import this into Z (no UV maps) then sculpt, once your happy with that export the level 1 mesh back into maya then UV and use this as a morph target to overide the Uv mesh then texture in PS (if you want to use poly painting in Z then just poly paint prior to making the morph target and uv mapping then transfer the maps to the UV space.ДЄs for the question regarding UV maps and the multiples, if your sculpting Z dosent care if it has maps or not, although as the base level geo changes so will your maps, so your probably best off either not bothering with the UVs when sculpting or if youve already done them they will probably need a tweek, if you want you can add multiple maps to Z and render the displacements, theres a tutorial on the Zbrush wiki that goes into this. The main thing being is that once you import into Zbrush and sculpt it will move the original geo, pretty much no matter what. One of the first things I would say is dont try to sculpt a model that had any rigging/skinning or blend shapes on it, your pretty much asking for trouble, use the standsrd pipeling of modeling, texturing, rigging then rendering.