You'll learn the basic structure of the course

The digital artist Alexander Obando, who belongs to the CG Makers team hosts this quick course, which, as goal, aims to show the basic tools and functions the digital sculpting software has got. 

In this first video you’ll meet the basic panels of the software and will get familiar the 3D space that Zbrush provides.

Some of the most important things you should understand is the orientation of your 3D objects in 3D space, and how to handle the scaling in the software. With this simple introduction, you’ll start to work in a more organized way, being able to avoid headaches when your work becomes quite advanced. 

How to create a simple object in the software through the predesigned objects Zbrush has got as default. We’ll learn basic movements for understanding how we can visualize our 3d model (move, scale, or rotate the object). With this options we don’t modify the physical characteristics of the object, but simply the point of view of itself for being able to work with precision. 

Basic 3D objects modification - 3D meshes - through the functions move, rotate, and scale. How to use the tool”transpose” for learning how to modify an object deliberately. 

This video is essential for understanding how digital artists work in the sculpting process. The most important is to understand how to modify a brush according to its setup, this provides a clear idea of how we should adapt our work flow. With the different brushes modifiers we can achieve a great variety od details on our 3D creations. 

On this video you’ll learn how to subdivide the mesh for providing more detail with the use of the brushes. The instructor will recommend a basic selection of brushes for you to start working and experiment with your 3D models. As you gain experience with the use of the mentioned brushes on this video, you’ll be able to add others which will let you achieve more interesting details and effects, but we ensure to you that using the recommended brushes by the instructor, you’ll be able to create high quality level sculptures. 

On this video, we’ll have a look at a panel that can be really useful for generating alterations to an object without having the need of using brushes. Many of these functions are applied in general terms to the 3D mesh. 

On this video you’ll learn how to use the masks, the different types of masks that can be created according to the job you’re making and the setup of the mask. You’ll also learn some useful commands to be implemented often when you’re giving detail to your 3D characters. 

You’ll learn to work with polygroups and meet techniques for hiding sections of the sculpture for working centralized without compromising the integrity of the rest of the elements for your 3D project. 

On this video you’ll learn how to organize the sculpture’s subtools, this lets you manage the objects within layers that you can modify, subdivide, or alter individually wihout generating problems on the global sculpture. This process is very important when a piece with multiple components is being build or with parts of great complexity that must be handled and organized independently in order to avoid compromising its integrity. It also makes the job easier when working by components in the sculpture since the layers can be enabled or disabled as the artist wishes. 

This video lets you understand how you can work efficiently by enabling the symmetry options for sculpting models where you have to copy the strokes or the shapes you’re generating. 

On this last video, you’ll be able to see how to apply several tools, functions and options that were shown throughout the course. Here we’ll be able to have a look at the tools applied to a project of basic-middle complexity level. The character exposed on the video takes part of a fanart exercise - artistic creation made by fans with no commercial value - Which is developed for showing the great versatility of the digital sculpting tool.