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"No More Wine - Video Making Of" by Simon Blanc & Pixologic Simon Blanc of Blur Studios, shows you the tools he used to create his ZBrush work No More Wine. Follow along step
by step as Simon creates his base character from ZSpheres then continues to sculpt and paint.
"Normal Mapping in Max and ZBrush- Video Tutorials" by Pixologic In this latest collection of ZBrush video tutorials by Pixologic we will look into creating normal maps. We start off by creating a simple model in 3dsmax which we will then take into ZBrush to finalise.
"Normal Mapping in Maya - Video Tutorials" by Pixologic In this latest collection of ZBrush video tutorials by Pixologic we will look into creating normal maps. We start off by creating a simple model in Maya which we will then take into ZBrush to finalise.
"ZSpheres - Video Tutorials" by Pixologic In our latest collection of ZBrush Tutorial Videos by Pixologic we will show you all about ZSpheres and how to use
them. Later on in we will put what you have shown you into use by creating a simple human, hand and quadruped models.
"ZBrush, Blender & Maya Training - Lesson 13: Sub Scattering of Particles - Video Tutorials" by Jason Welsh Sub scattering of particles? Huh? This occurs every day, for example we see lights that are sufficient enough to go through flesh (look at ears in sunlight). After this chapter you can impress your friends by going up to them and saying “Wow, the sub-scattering of particles of light hitting your ears is very impressive!” and you will look like a cool person once more (either that or a nerd). Anyway, this is a more advanced lesson, so strap on your cap and we’ll take a look
at SSS using mapping from ZBrush.
"Making a Vase - Video Tutorial" by Pixologic Taking what we have learnt from previous video tutorials in the ZBrush series, the next set of tutorials will go into
creating this simple vase. We will cover such topics as radial symmetry to create the overall shape and also the symmetrical patterns which decorate the vase, mesh extract to cut a hole in the top and to hollow out the vase and
finally the zproject brush to project the characters face on the side.
"ZBrush Basics - Video Tutorials" by Pixologic Thanks to our friends over at Pixologic, we bring to you a 3 part beginners guide to ZBrush. Everything
that you need to know about this program can be found within these movies.
"Zbrush & Blender Training - Lesson 9: Using Blender - Video Tutorials" by Jason Welsh This is now your path to ruin, where you are going to have to learn a really fun application for free. Blender is a very
well put together program, and like ZBrush its interface and instruction manual somehow got lost along the way. So
now I will pass on my years of learning the program to you the viewer. Let’s take a break from ZBrush and start
learning Blender; at the end of this chapter you will see how Blender and ZBrush can work together (Yes, the
UV thing).
"ZBrush Training - Lesson 8: Explaining UVs - Video Tutorials" by Jason Welsh Before I go more into UVs I will be showing various colouring techniques that will help explain why good UVs should
be made for a model. UVs are only important if you are going to “port” your model to another 3D package, but they
also come in handy when applying textures to the model.
"ZBrush Specular Map Painting" by Kashif Riley Hello everyone, I have decided to take the initiative and create a small tutorial on visualising specular values on a
ZBrush mesh. Mudbox 2009 will have this, too, but I want to demonstrate how to see different specular values that will look proper in a renderer, such as Mental Ray.
"Zbrush Training - Lesson 5: Using Blender to create clean UVs - Video Tutorial" by Jason Welsh After building a mesh there are a couple of things you might want to think about doing. In this next chapter, I cover
Blender and how to use it to make clean UVs for a single mesh. Later on, in future chapters, I will be showing you
how to do a multiple UV mesh and a Multi object Mesh, also.
"ZBrush Training - Lesson 1: Interface & Navigation - Video Tutorials" by Jason Welsh With all 3D programmes, the first thing you should start out with is Navigation. This Chapter in ZBrush deals with
basic Navigation and some tools to get you started in this 1 of a kind program. It then progresses into basic
sculpting using well laid-out uniformed geometry.
"Ecorche: Anatomy of the Arm & Shoulder - Video Tutorial" by Ryan Kingslien Continuing on the path of ecorche sculpting that was started in ‘Ecorche: Sculpting the Anatomy of the Face’, Ryan Kingslien now presents the muscles of the Arm and Shoulder. These tutorials simplify the complexity of the human
form in an easy-to-understand way!
"Ecorche: Sculpting Face Anatomy in ZBrush 3 - Video Tutorial" by Ryan Kingslien Ecorche sculpting is a time honoured method for learning to understand sculptural form from the inside out. In this
free 10 minute tutorial, Ryan Kingslien uses ZBrush 3.1 to create the muscles most responsible for both the form and the function of one of the most complicated and difficult to sculpt parts of the human body: the face.
"Sculpting Hair" by Joe Lee
The following are some of my observations while learning the new features in ZBrush. It is my hope that this
process will help shed light on achieving a unique look as well as open new ideas for other techniques.
"Bird of Prey - ZBrush 3" by Joe Lee
Before getting started on this project, I tried to surround myself with as much reference and inspiration as I could before taking the plunge on the Zbrush canvas. I have great admiration for master bird carvers such as Floyd Scholz and I have always wondered if such wood carving...
"Creation of the Captain" by Stepan Grakov
I am going to show you how to create the making of “The Captain” - my lastest work - from modelling and rendering,
to composing and post effects. This is not a “step-by-step” tutorial, here you will find explanations of my techniques.
To create this image I used ZBrush 2.0 for modelling and rendering, and Fireworks MX....
"A guide to re-topologising" by Wayne Robson
Re-topologising a mesh, that’s one heck of a mouthful that sounds complex and scary to people new-ish to modelling. Really it’s nothing of the kind, it’s a simple concept that’s easy to grasp and put into practice. Topology are the edge loops on your model, most people are aware......
"Old Man" by Oskar Swierad & Kamil Makowski In this tutorial we will explain how we have created the artwork “Old man - Portrait”. At the beginning - modelling and unwrapping was done in Blender, detailing and rendering in Zbrush and some post production with Photoshop. You must be a bit familiar with...
"Making Taho" by Michel Roger - Translated by Julien Dephix Always seeking new modelling techniques with Maya or Max using Surface, PatchSmooth, MeshSmooth, box
modeling, edge modeling and so on, I must admit I was feeling frustrated with these techniques which I found
long and tedious. It takes a long white to create something out of a cube !
