ZBrush: Zero to HERO

Outline

Day 1

• Introduction
• Interface, basic setup, explaining what a ztool is
• Starting a basic sculpt
• How to use brushes
• Change the intensities and sizes of the brushes etc…
• Zooming, rotating and panning
• Start a sculpture with Zspheres ( I will teach process of starting a sculpture from scratch in zbrush)
• We will make a hand and sculpt from reference photos.

Day 2

• Start a sculpture from scratch with Z-sketching (there are many ways to start in zbrush, this is the most fun and most commonly used)
• Explain how to turn from zsketch mode into a ztool
• Explain subdivisions levels and working with different levels of details
• How to mirror geometry when sculpting a head a body
• Property sizes
• How to creating time lapses and Turntables for showreels
• How to bring in reference images as image planes
• Using different subtools, to build separate parts of the character and bring them together
• How to merge tools and blend them together
• Working with different brushes
• Working with Dynamesh and how to rebuild geometry
• Working with Alphas with different kinds of strokes

Day 3

• Working with “transpoze” and how to mask the sculpture.
• How to pose a character
• How to create your own “zbrush alphas” in Photoshop
• Texturing
• Polypainting

Day 4

• Working with spotlight.
• Extracting objects from the mesh, to create cloths
• Hard surface/edge modelling in zbrush
• Rebuilding geometry in zbrush for lower topology
• Creasing edges