Digital Tutors Creature Concept Sculpting in Zbrush

In this advanced ZBrush tutorial we tackle yet another concept by the awesome Anthony Jones and work towards an extremely detailed and precise sculpture of his design.

In this tutorial we will learn how to sketch a character in ZBrush and Softimage, and how to make it into a detailed sculpture.
The purpose of this tutorial is to present the usage of Softimage and ZBrush as a 3D sketching application. Also, how to use new features like DynaMesh and ICE to complete a 3D concept of a mythological character.

In this course we will use a Maya to ZBrush workflow to build and texture a detailed battle hammer.
When working with digital assets, the ability of your computer to manipulate those assets is limited, especially when dealing with very high resolution meshes. For this reason, we use things like normal maps to simulate the high resolution detail in a way that we can more easily use.

In this course we will use a Maya to ZBrush workflow to build and texture a detailed battle hammer.
When working with digital assets, the ability of your computer to manipulate those assets is limited, especially when dealing with very high resolution meshes. For this reason, we use things like normal maps to simulate the high resolution detail in a way that we can more easily use. In this course, we'll use a weathered battle hammer as an example to illustrate some of the ways you can use Maya and ZBrush together to build and sculpt high resolution props and set pieces and create useable assets. After building the base geometry and laying out UVs in Maya, we'll go through the process of sculpting and texturing the hammer in ZBrush. We'll finish up by applying all of that detail back in Maya to create a high quality, useable prop.

With the addition of sculpting tools to CINEMA 4D studio, it's become possible to complete creature projects without leaving the software. In this CINEMA 4D sculpting tutorial we will discuss the modeling of a base mesh in CINEMA 4D, using a variety of modeling tools.
Throughout the tutorial we will talk about model preparation and UV layout in anticipation of texture baking and painting. Once the base is prepared, we will go through the process of adding high resolution detail using the sculpting tools in CINEMA 4D. Once our creature model is sculpted, we will talk about baking that detail out into Normal, Displacement, and Ambient Occlusion maps. Then we will use BodyPaint to create textures for the creature.

Throughout this ZBrush tutorial we'll go from choosing a reference face to getting our hands dirty in ZBrush and testing our mettle as well as sculpting techniques.

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