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Shine in a professional environment with three practical projects and vital design and portfolio tips through this part-color guide

Explore organic modeling, concept sculpting, and character creation workflows

Discover tools and techniques employed by professionals from the games, VFX and collectibles industries

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Embark on a creative journey with ZBrush, the leading software for creating characters, creatures, and props in films, games, and 3D printing. This guide will take you through its powerful yet user-friendly workflows, allowing you to explore its dynamic organic sculpting, painting, and hard-surface modeling tools. The first part of this book is dedicated to helping you become familiar with ZBrush’s user interface and learning the very basics, from sculpting brushes and painting the model with Polypaint to setting up lights and rendering images. You’ll also create a demon bust with the help of ZBrush’s concept sculpting tool, DynaMesh. In the second part, you’ll get to grips with the creation of a humanoid character that is optimized for 3D printing. Focusing on anatomy, poly-modeling, and preparing the model for 3D printing, you’ll acquire the skills essential for sculptors. The final part delves into portrait sculpting, where you’ll learn everything from basic facial anatomy to hair creation with FiberMesh. By the end of this book, you'll have developed the expertise necessary to succeed in the ever-evolving world of 3D character modeling, complemented by portfolio and social media tips for showcasing your standout work.

Who is this book for?

This book is for 3D artists, digital sculptors, modelers, and anyone looking to learn the ZBrush software. It's a valuable resource for professionals switching to ZBrush or looking to broaden their skill set. While prior ZBrush experience and artistic abilities will prove beneficial, they're not prerequisites to understand the content covered. The book covers common and essential ZBrush workflows, making it ideal for both beginner and intermediate artists looking to explore the extensive capabilities of ZBrush.

What you will learn

Enhance your sculpting skills to craft a variety of organic and hard surface objects

Create humanoid characters, focusing on basic anatomy and proportions

Explore sculpting techniques for intricate details in human heads and hair

Sculpt objects such as armor, clothing, and accessories

Create custom brushes to enhance your sculpting workflow

Develop skills in detailing and surfacing to add texture and depth to your sculpts

Use Polypaint and Materials to add color and enhance your sculptures

Render and export your sculpts to share them with others

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Severi Kamppi Jun 10, 2024

I'm mostly a blender user, but been following Lukas for a long time and knew there'll be a lot of info that also correlates to sculpting and workflows in General, but of course also learned a lot about Zbrush in the process even if I mostly focus on Blender, being a generalist I like to keep a lot of the process in Blender. But there's so much info in general that even if it does concentrate on the Zbrush aspect and shortcuts, knowing sculpting enough already in Blender, I was able to follow the process very closely.Whatever you do your sculpting with, or whether you are a 3D generalist this will give you all the info you need to become better and understand what it takes to be a great sculptor, even if it's easier said than done.Highly recommend buying this yourself! You'll be a better artist for it, 100%

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Ian Robinson Jun 03, 2024

For many years as a trainer and sculptor, you hear all the time that ZBrush's UI and the ability to understand the program at a high level is not very easy of a task to do. However, this book is definitely one to grab if you are either getting started or even a power user already, this book is for you.Lukas Kutschera is an amazing sculptor with many years of experience behind him. If you are looking to get into Games, VFX, or even just to start sculpting in ZBrush, this book is for you!Ian RobinsonMaster ZBrush Trainer, Digital Sculptor and Community Manager at Maxon

Leif Robert Langford Jun 03, 2024

Book was....well...a book! Pages and all. Each one of them as described. And on time! Thanks!

Amazon Customer May 04, 2024

Like other reviews the book is pretty long and covers a lot of the functions of zbrush, how to do them, and where to look for more in depth information. It cover anatomy, hair, textures, characters, and tools, and focuses on helping you understand the basics of them and the do's and dont's.

zfashion Apr 10, 2024

I hold a masters in 3d arts and have a collection of books that have helped me in my 15 year career. This is a good book to get the skills and grow as you continue the book. I like that there is a technical preface at the beginning of each lesson so you actually know what youre doing instead of just following steps to see a result. The value is the fact that you grow as an artist while you complete the book. I've paid for books where you just do the same modeling tasks over and over but for different scenes and this isnt that. So I give it five stars which I rarely do for technical software books.

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