ZBrush: Modeling Footwear

Learn the tools and techniques you need to digitally sculpt a shoe. Discover how to create the sole and the basic shape, and how to add laces and fine details to your sculpture.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Preparing
• Exercise files
• What to know

1. Creating the Sole

• Importing reference images
• Modeling the basic sole shape
• Extruding the sole and tread thickness
• Tapering the tread
• Creasing hard edges
• Adjusting the reference images
• Making a template for the repeating treads
• Duplicating the tread with array mesh
• Cutting the tread pattern
• Tweaking the tread
• Bending the sole
• Tweaking the sole geometry

2. Making the Upper

• Making the basic upper shape
• Drawing out the patch placement
• Extracting the simple patches
• Extracting more complex patches
• Making the tongue
• Making the cuff
• Forming the heel tab
• Finishing the upper elements

3. Creating the Laces

• Making a lace grommet
• Placing the grommets with insert mesh
• Making a shoelace brush
• Drawing out the laces
• Tweaking the shape of the laces
• Creating the aglets

4. Adding the Fine Details

• Sculpting the irregularities
• Adding leather texture
• Sculpting specific leather detail
• Adding fabric textures
• Sculpting stitches
• Making stitches with insert mesh
• Making fuzzy suede texture
• Adding stitches around the welt
• Making the final adjustments

Conclusion

• Next steps