Become a ZBrush Master: Create Your Own 3D Elf Character

Name: Become a ZBrush Master: Create Your Own 3D Elf Character
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Step by Step Training to Creating Fun Cartoon Characters in zBrush!

Created byAlan Balodi

Last updated 12/2015

English

What you'll learn

Create Your Own Fun 3D Cartoon Characters
Learn Amazing Sculpting Techniques
Customize Your Workspace
Learn to Use Dynamesh and zSpheres Together
Setup Beautiful Renders Inside zBrush via BPR
Learn to Pose High Res Characters Inside zBrush
Setup Layers to Achieve Funny Facial Expressions

Course content

4 sections • 26 lectures • 4h 32m total length

Quick Welcome From Your Instructor!0:32
Meet your instructor.
Course Outline1:00
These are the topics that will be covered in our course!

Adding Reference Image8:39
Setup reference image using spotlight.
Customize UI14:14
Customize your User Interface (UI) by dragging your own favorite tools and brushes to various side panels.
Creating the Head14:46
Begin to create the head using the polysphere.
Adding Eyes17:00
Add eyeballs to help us shape the head.
Add More Detail to the Head14:26
Sculpt more detail for our head.
Adding Tongue and Teeth10:09
Added Tongue and couple silly teeth!
Painting the Mouth13:18
Polypainting the mouth area.
Painting the Skin7:56
Creating the Hat16:30
Using a sphere we created a hat.
Adding Hair16:59
Added Hair, by extracting a mask out of the head mesh.
Finalizing and Rendering the Head12:38
Learn how to use Render Filters with BPR and Wax Modifier.
Building the Body for our Elf Character11:43
In this lesson we built the base for our body.
Creating the Belt10:19
Using the mask, we extracted our belt.
Learn how to Use zSpheres to Create Cartoon Hand16:15
Using zSpheres we created the base mesh, which we then sculpted into a cartoon hand.
Created the Sleeve13:35
We added the sleeve, then created nails on our cartoon hand.
Finalizing both Arms6:05
Finalized the arm then cloned it to the other side.
Creating a Shoe12:03
In this lesson we created a show out of simple sphere.
Extracting the Character's Leg8:50
We masked our shoe and pulled out a leg, instead of using a brand new shape.
Finish Setting Up Both Legs3:50
We added stripes and cloned our leg.
Adding Final Detail to our Shirt16:57
Learn How To Use Layers in zBrush for Facial Expressions7:19
We learned how to create facial expressions by using the layers.
Learn How To Pose High Res Model with Many Subtools12:38
Add awesome pose to your final sculpt!
The End1:00

Requirements

ZBrush Software is required.
No prior knowledge is required.

Description

This course is for anyone who wants to learn a great workflow for creating high quality 3D cartoon characters in zBrush. We will cover all the basics and show you how you can take any drawing and turn it into a clean high end 3D model.

We will cover important sculpting techniques and I will show you how to properly paint your model inside zBrush. We will also take a look at some of the more popular brushes and alphas which you can use to add fantastic skin detail and paint any design you want on your own character.

We will end the course by posing our final character and take a quick look at how we can use layers to setup amazing facial expressions!

Who this course is for:

This course is for anyone who loves character design and 3D modeling.

Become a ZBrush Master: Create Your Own 3D Elf Character

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zBrush23 lectures • 4hr 27min

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BONUS ++1 lecture • 6min

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