Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Quick look at the course ahead

Google Link:
https://www.google.co.uk/searchq=zbrush+jewellery+design&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwimxt2M9LzdAhXFJMAKHT0LBsIQ_AUIDygC&biw=1920&bih=1014

Jewellery You Tube:

T.S. Wittelsbach - Sculpting, Printing & ZBrush 4R8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jIGwlJ-sPw&

Pixelogic ZBrush Jewelery Page:

http://pixologic.com/zbrush/industry/jewelry/

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: A quickstarters guide to navigation and customisation inside ZBrush 2018

Notes

If your new to Zbrush you might want to take one of my comprehensive ZBrush beginner courses, if you found the lecture easy then move on with the course

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Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Download the course assets used during this course

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Lets have a look at the assets and set up the folders so that we can get organised from the get go

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Lets import a 1mm cube from Maya into ZBrush and export out of ZBrush into Maya (note this is not essential to have Maya just watch the lecture to understand the principals)

2: We will also look at resizing and measuring inside ZBrush these fundamentals are important and we will keep going over this, it is absolutely essential you understand how to measure your models thickness, width or height that is why repetition is used a lot in this course

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Ringmaster is a great tool you can use to quickly build a template for you ring there are lots of features we will discuss lets see it in action

Links to Pixelogics Ringmaster and all the plugins available
http://pixologic.com/zbrush/downloadcenter/zplugins/

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Lets explore Ringmaster and also have a look at the size charts

I have had feedback that ring master behaves a bit weird no problem you can make your bases using the Scale master here is two videos to help you:

VIDEO 1

https://youtu.be/o7iTfE04N6k

VIDEO 2

https://youtu.be/Ssug-AN8_g8

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Lets build rings!! this is our first ring we will focus on a simple ring with a couple of bevels and extrusions

2: We will use Ringmaster to build the base

3: Lets export this ring ready for upload to Shapeways

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: We are using Shapeways as our prefered 3D printer, Shapeways gives good results and makes it easy for you to get your item printed in a variety of different materials

2: lets explore the interface and process for uploading with our base ring

Tip

Before getting something printed in an expensive material I suggest printing it at home in plastic or using Shapeways for a test print in a cheaper material!!!

Note

Although we are using Shapeways it does not specialise in Jewelery to get the best results you can it is better to work with a Jeweller in your area that accept ZBrush files! I have used Shapeways here to demo a process! Again Shapeways might have the quality you want they are getting better and better!!

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Now we will work on a slightly more complex ring we will overlay an engraved pattern around the ring, first lets create the base

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Lets UV layout the ring so we can add a surface noise to the ring

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Lets decimate our ring to get our poly count to around 1 million polygons

2: Now we will export and upload to Shapeways

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Its important not be be reliant on ringmaster, this is why we will build our own ring base from scratch!

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: This course is all about teaching you how to be versatile and adapt in this tutorial we will continue by using boolians to make the ring hole

SEE ALSO

VIDEO 1

https://youtu.be/o7iTfE04N6k

VIDEO 2

https://youtu.be/Ssug-AN8_g8

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: As well as Ringbase creation Ringmaster also creates gems and custom tool selections these are created on an array lets explore this cool feature and explore what is happening here!!

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Lets create the daisy ring and also texture it as well

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: I will now demo how to add Text as a boolian around the ring

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Lets use the premade ring base for another truly custom piece of art
2: Pre using assets is good way to create custom pieces of Jewelery lets me show you how

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Lets spend some time on the new Skull

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Carrying on we will texture our Skull and position it in place on the base

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Lets now work on the Skeleton arm piece

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: We will now create an array and merge our mesh into one piece
2: We need to decimate this down let go ahead and do it
3: Now its ready and exported lets upload to Shapeways

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Creating IMM brushes can save loads of times I show the principals here

Handy Courses

If you are interested in IMM brushes and other features of ZBrush check out this tutorial

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Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: As i have said this course is all about measurements lets look at it again in detail, remember this process is common to any creations inside ZBrush

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: this is the last ring in the course this will use techniques you already learnt and take it to that next level
2: Lets use a custom base and tweak it using a transpose technique

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Lets modify the simple ring base

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Adding detail whilst using subdivisions

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Building up detail, just keep working your ring up till you are happy with it

Tip

Often you might find it good to zoom out to aproximate the size the ring is to see how it reads remember if its too detailed you might not be able to see that detail when its printed also the detail itself might not print as it could be too fine!!!

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: lets create a new tool for the leaves and add it to the base (in hind site I probably would not have used this method, rather sculpting direct on the ring base but its still good for you to see the flexibility of ZBrush)

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Mesh extraction method (please note it might have been good to have smoothed the area before I did the extraction but again this is just to show you what you can do)

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Lets use Photoshop to create a mask from an image (I use Photoshop in this image but the same principals apply for any digital image program)

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: We will create some geometry direct from the Alpha we just created

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Lets hollow out the ring a little to save on material and print costs!!
2: Finally we will decimate and upload to Shapeways

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Creating Pendents and Bracelets can easily be done now you know about sizing you could create anything using these methods and other techniques from other courses
2: Lets create the base

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Adding detail

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: creating the hole for the chain

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Speed up workflow with VDB (vector displacement brushes)

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Lets now create the base for the bracelet

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Lets carry on with the bracelet, we do have a brush size problem that will be sorted out in the next lecture

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: Adding more detail with dynamesh

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: In this lesson we will use Scalemaster to fix a problem with the brush size earlier we turned off dyanamic but we did not have to we can just reset in Scalemaster to fix the relative brush sizes let me show you how

Course Description

Welcome to this lecture in "Jewelery Design in ZBrush 2018 - Complete Jewelery Course"

Learn the art of Jewelery Design using  ZBrush 2018 Make your 3D Creations Real by Understanding the 3D Printing Process

Jewelery Design Key Lecture Points:

1: In this lecture we will look at some fundamental problems that could cause print errors whilst uploading or sending to an external printers

More Docs on Troubleshooting

https://www.shapeways.com/tutorials/how_to_use_meshlab_and_netfabb

https://www.shapeways.com/tutorials/fixing-non-manifold-models

https://makeprintable.com/blog/optimizing-zbrush-files-for-3d-printing/

https://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/author/laura-taalman?mc_cid=6a2407e272&mc_eid=4289bc639c

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