Learning ZBrushCore

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

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