Sculpting Caricatures in ZBrush
Learn an artist-friendly workflow to sculpting caricatures and an array of practical techniques for exaggerating key characteristics, working with art direction, and capturing believable likenesses of your subjects in ZBrush. Software required: ZBrush 3.1 and up.
What you'll learn
Learn an artist-friendly workflow to sculpting caricatures and an array of practical techniques for exaggerating key characteristics, working with art direction, and capturing believable likenesses of your subjects in ZBrush. Provides over 6 hours of project-driven training for artists using ZBrush for sculpting and illustration. Popular highlights include: Exaggerating Key Features; Working with Subtool Master; Posing Models with Transpose Master; Merging Subtools; Creating Clothing using Topology; Redrawing Facial Topology; Blocking Out Geometry with ZSpheres; Creating Adaptive Skins; Projecting Detail into Adaptive Skins; Extracting Geometry to Create Accessories; Creating Layered Compositions; Painting with Depth; Painting over Composition; Sculpting Facial Features; Changing ZSphere Resolution; Working from Reference Art; Building Teeth and Eyes from Primitives; Appending Subtools; Painting Hair; Baking and Merging Layers. Software required: ZBrush 3.1 and up.
Table of contents
- Building the Body with ZSpheres 13m
- Adding the Hands 12m
- Creating an Adaptive Skin 5m
- Shaping the Basic Forms of the Head and Body 11m
- Sculpting Facial Features 13m
- Refining the Facial Features 11m
- Finishing the Facial Features 13m
- Sculpting the Hands 11m
- Sculpting Detail on the Body 12m
- Preparing a Topology Mesh 4m
- Setting up a Topology Session 4m
- Redrawing the Facial Topology 11m
- Refining the Facial Topology 11m
- Finishing the Facial Topology 11m
- Projecting Sculpted Detail into a New Mesh 6m
- Refining Detail on the Face 13m
- Finishing the Facial Details 16m
- Drawing out the Dress Using Topology 8m
- Finishing the Dress and Adding It as a Subtool 7m
- Building the Teeth with Primitives 9m
- Building the Eyes with Primitives 7m
- Adding Teeth and Eyes as Subtools 9m
- Building the Shoes Using Extract 18m
- Adding Eyebrows and Eyelashes 10m
- Creating a Rough Pose Using Transpose Master 17m
- Cleaning up and Extending the Pose 10m
- Creating Base Hair Geometry 16m
- Adding a Material to the Skin 5m
- Painting Detail into the Skin 9m
- Adding a Satin Material to the Dress 3m
- Texturing the Eyes 8m
- Adding Materials to the Teeth; Shoes and Hair 3m
- Making Last Minute Sculpting Changes 11m
- Finishing the Character Sculpt 13m
- Setting up a Document for the Final Image 6m
- Changing the Lighting and Painting the Layers 7m
- Merging Layers and Baking Depth Information 2m
- Painting the Hair in 2D 7m
- Adding Final 2D Touches 4m
About the author
Justin thrives as a lead modeling author at Pluralsight. Growing up, Justin found a deep interest for the computer graphics industry after watching movies like Jurassic Park, Toy Story, and The Abyss. His ambition would lead him to work at Sony Imageworks in Los Angeles on movies like Monster House and Surf's Up. Justin has also had numerous articles, tutorials, and images published in 3D World and 3D Artist. As an author, Justin enjoys collaborating with fellow authors, especially on project... more