T0523 - Digital Tutors - Zbrush character and scene development

Create polished characters and more appealing scenes. Work creatively using a step-by-step approach to character and scene development in ZBrush and a time-saving workflow to character interaction, sculpting, texturing, composition, lighting, and rendering. Contains nearly 6 hours of self-paced training for artists using ZBrush and Maya.Popular highlights include:

• Composition and Layout


• Working from Sketch


• Creating ZSphere Base


• Adaptive Skins


• Character Posing


• Re-working Topology


• Quick Shaping the Model


• Character Interaction


• Adding Multiple Pieces with ZSpheres


• Appending Subtools


• Adding Temporary Materials


• Custom Alphas and Textures


• Exaggerating Features for Appeal


• Creating UVs in ZBrush


• Polypainting


• Converting Polypaints to Texture Maps


• Exporting Displacement Maps


• Exporting Normal Maps


• Exporting Geometry from ZBrush


• Importing Geometry into Maya


• 3-point Lighting Setup


• Camera Placement


• Subsurface Scattering Effects


• Approximations for High-quality Displacement


• Using Final Gather with Subsurface Scattering


• Adjusting Render Stats of Objects


• Rendering Scenes in Multiple Passes


• Outputting Color, Occlusion, and Depth Passes


• Compositing Multiple Passes with Photoshop


• Depth-of-field Effects to Final Render

Lesson Outline:

1.	Introduction and Project Overview	0:58
2.	Building the ZSphere skeleton	8:07
3.	Finishing the ZSphere skeleton	12:24
4.	Positioning the adaptive skin	5:53
5.	Creating the basic shapes	5:50
6.	Redrawing the mouth topology	11:52
7.	Adding the eyes	8:14
8.	Sculpting the body	9:09
9.	Shaping the tentacles	7:45
10.	Sculpting the mouth area	8:04
11.	Adding the tongue with ZSpheres	8:04
12.	Shaping and sculpting the tongue	6:07
13.	Sculpting the inside of the mouth	11:49
14.	Building the fish with ZSpheres	7:39
15.	Detailing the fish	10:49
16.	Adding the teeth	8:28
17.	Adding the saliva and hair	8:18
18.	Previewing with materials	4:20
19.	Polypainting the squid's body	10:48
20.	Using custom alphas to detail the tentacles	5:09
21.	Painting the eyes	4:21
22.	Painting the tongue	5:42
23.	Painting the fish	7:23
24.	Detailing and painting the ground	6:40
25.	Preparing assets for export and creating UVs	5:20
26.	Exporting textures from ZBrush	6:10
27.	Exporting geometry from ZBrush	4:58
28.	Exporting normal and displacement maps	6:04
29.	Importing ZBrush geometry into Maya	6:18
30.	Adding lights to Maya scene	7:06
31.	Adding materials to characters' eyes and teeth	9:16
32.	Creating subsurface materials for character's body	9:16
33.	Connecting color maps to SSS materials	9:33
34.	Creating a SSS back scattering map in ZBrush	11:14
35.	Building SSS shader for character's toungue	11:08
36.	Adjusting render stats of geometry for proper reflections and refractions	9:07
37.	Creating pools of water under the squid character	10:55
38.	Independently controlling final gather and reflection results	5:51
39.	Utilizing approxinations for high quality displacement effects	12:09
40.	Finalizing light setup	9:36
41.	Setting up render layers in Maya	13:56
42.	Compositing color and occlusion passes in Photoshop	8:19
43.	Adding depth-of-field effects and retouching image in Photoshop	6:30
	Total Run Time:	5:46:60