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Learning ZBrushCore

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Get a comprehensive introduction to ZBrushCore, the streamlined version of ZBrush, with practical examples and workflow techniques.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Exercise files
1. User Interface
  • Loading projects and templates
  • First contact and UI elements
  • Canvas and navigation
  • Customizing ZBrushCore UI
  • Custom hotkeys
  • Importing reference images
  • Working with reference images
  • Background color
  • Undo history and QuickSave
2. Getting Started
  • Sculpting approaches
  • Introduction to ZSpheres
  • Creating an armature
  • Exploring shapes and adjusting volumes
  • Adaptive Skin
  • Adjusting Adaptive Skin
  • Masking and selection tools
  • The power of subtools
3. Approaching Sculpting
  • Understanding Dynamesh and subdivisions
  • Splitting up the model into subtools
  • The brush system
  • Building secondary shapes and strong silhouettes
  • Polygroups
  • Insert brushes
  • Alternative way to build shapes
  • Creating fur for arms and legs
4. Refining the Sculpture
  • Polishing shapes
  • Extracting mesh
  • Stroke type and alphas for detailing
  • Creating custom alphas in Photoshop
  • Using custom alphas for tertiary shapes
  • Refining stylized fur with Dam Standard Brush
  • Subtool transitions
5. Primitives
  • Primitives and initialize settings
  • Modeling the horns with primitives
  • Primitive to PolyMesh and shape tweaking
  • Deformation palette
  • Sculpting the horn with subdivisions
  • Detailing the horn and custom brushes
  • Appending the horn and mirroring it
6. Polypaint and Rendering
  • Paint brush and materials
  • First color pass and establishing palette
  • Refining the color palette
  • Stroke type and alphas for texture detailing
  • Texture images to add variation
  • Sculpting details with paint
  • Applying materials
  • Lights setup
  • Rendering final image

Taught by

Pablo Muñoz

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