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Learn MoreZBrush 4 R8 Course on Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour!
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What you'll learn
- You will learn quite a few techniques to create armour
- You will be more confident with ZBrush
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Course content
2 sections • 86 lectures • 15h 59m total length
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Reference1:38
ZBRUSH4 R8 COURSE - Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour a full workshop!
Lecture Title:
Reference for our Armour
Lecture Description:
Lets take a look at the reference I will be using for this course all images found on google.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Basemesh part 14:08
ZBRUSH4 R8 COURSE - Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour a full workshop!
Lecture Title:
The base mesh
Lecture Description:
For our base mesh we will be using one of the tools that ship with ZBrush, this will be used to produce our armour.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Basemesh part 23:56
ZBRUSH4 R8 COURSE - Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour a full workshop!
Lecture Title:
Refining the base mesh
Lecture Description:
Lets prepare our base mesh for the course ahead.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Customise6:15
ZBRUSH4 R8 COURSE - Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour a full workshop!
Lecture Title:
Customisation to the ZBrush interface
Lecture Description:
In order to work faster we will set up our ZBrush interface so its quicker for you to grab brushes please use this method throughout the course for commonly used brushes and materials.
- Download the course assets1:44
Please download the course assets or go it alone! :)
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Four Armour Methods13:01
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Lecture Title:
Four Armour methods
Lecture Description:
In this lesson i will be showing you the four methods we will use to create armour we will go into more detail about these during the course and the armour creation process.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Choosing our Armour4:34
ZBRUSH4 R8 COURSE - Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour a full workshop!
Lecture Title:
Deciding on the armour
Lecture Description:
During this lecture I will show you the armour I am deciding to make.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Topology Brush15:20
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Lecture Title:
Creating the shoulder base the topology brush
Lecture Description:
Lets create the first piece of armour the shoulder piece this will be the base for it, it should have good topology and flow.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Extrusions on the Shoulder4:49
ZBRUSH4 R8 COURSE - Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour a full workshop!
Lecture Title:
Extruding the shoulder base
Lecture Description:
Lets now use the ZModeller brush to extrude our base shoulder piece.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - The ring Armour6:54
ZBRUSH4 R8 COURSE - Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour a full workshop!
Lecture Title:
Arm ring armour base
Lecture Description:
Now we move onto the arm ring armour piece.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Neck Armour Base11:32
ZBRUSH4 R8 COURSE - Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour a full workshop!
Lecture Title:
Creation of the Neck Armour
Lecture Description:
Lets now move onto creating the base for the neck piece, you might have noticed we are repeating the same methods, I really want you to learn and be comfortable with this method before moving onto the next method!
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Neck Armour Extrusions7:25
ZBRUSH4 R8 COURSE - Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour a full workshop!
Lecture Title:
Extruding the Neck Armour
Lecture Description:
Lets do it again extrude that neck!
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Crease and Uncrease4:23
ZBRUSH4 R8 COURSE - Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour a full workshop!
Lecture Title:
Crease and uncrease
Lecture Description:
By default the ZModeller brush will create creases in the armour at times this can be a good thing however for you guys its important to understand how to do it your selves so lets uncrease all the armour panels and build in and control creases our selves!
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Rigging Method11:52
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Lecture Title:
Another method using rigging to create armour
Lecture Description:
Now this is my chosen chosen method for creating armour as it gives you fantastic control we will basically use the base mesh as a rig and then be able to create geometry over the top!
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Back Armour10:39
ZBRUSH4 R8 COURSE - Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour a full workshop!
Lecture Title:
Rigging method for the back piece
Lecture Description:
Lets repeat this time for the back piece of armour, notice how we draw or polypaint on the model so we have a guide!
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Back Armour part 210:29
ZBRUSH4 R8 COURSE - Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour a full workshop!
Lecture Title:
Front and Back Armour
Lecture Description:
Lets now use the new front and back panel and extrude the armour pieces using the same method we used before!
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Arrays and there uses4:15
ZBRUSH4 R8 COURSE - Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour a full workshop!
Lecture Title:
Using Arrays
Lecture Description:
By using arrays we can duplicate pieces of geometry with the added advantage of if you make a change to one it will update to the other side!
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Duplication a time saver2:49
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Lecture Title:
Duplicating Armour
Lecture Description:
When we can we should always think of time saving shortcuts like duplicating or reusing armour pieces.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Neck Collar9:57
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Lecture Title:
Neck Collar
Lecture Description:
Lets use a simple primitive to make the neck collar piece.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - The Helmet Base16:04
ZBRUSH4 R8 COURSE - Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour a full workshop!
Lecture Title:
The Helmet Base
Lecture Description:
OK on to the helmet lets create a simple base for this.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Refining the Helmet15:11
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Lecture Title:
Refining the Helmet
Lecture Description:
Lets now refine the helmet, watch how it starts to take shape, like all things in ZBrush start simple and add detail!
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Gloves by extraction6:01
ZBRUSH4 R8 COURSE - Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour a full workshop!
Lecture Title:
Mesh extractions for the gloves
Lecture Description:
Lets do a simple mesh extraction for the gloves.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Multiple parts9:55
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Lecture Title:
Creating multiple parts at the same time
Lecture Description:
In this lecture I am going to create the elbow and the fore arm grieve.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Elbow and forearm12:27
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Lecture Title:
Elbow and fore arm refinements
Lecture Description:
Lets refine the two parts and split them!
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Knee and front armour6:44
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Lecture Title:
Knee and front armour
Lecture Description:
Keep refining in this lecture we will continue with the front armour and create the knee piece as well.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - The shin guard armour16:37
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Lecture Title:
Shin Guard Armour
Lecture Description:
We need to now create our shin guard armour lets do it!
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Helmet Spikes16:13
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Lecture Title:
Helmet spikes
Lecture Description:
Lets add the spikes!
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Helmet Spikes part 216:31
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Lecture Title:
Finishing the helmet spikes
Lecture Description:
Lets finish these helmet spikes.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Thigh Armour17:20
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Lecture Title:
Thigh Armour
Lecture Description:
Moving on we now need to add the thigh armour.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Chainmail base12:09
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Lecture Title:
Setting our chain mail base
Lecture Description:
Eventually we will add chain mail lets get the base ready for this!
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Shoes8:42
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Lecture Title:
Simple shoes
Lecture Description:
A knight should have shoes right!! lets do a simple extraction and set the base for this.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Skirt8:52
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Lecture Title:
Skirt layer 1
Lecture Description:
Lets use a primitive and create our base skirt.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Front skirt7:19
ZBRUSH4 R8 COURSE - Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour a full workshop!
Lecture Title:
Front skirt base
Lecture Description:
Creating the front skirt base.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Edge loops and creases7:14
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Lecture Title:
Edgeloops and creases
Lecture Description:
Lets now look at adding creases and edgeloops and how they effect dynamic subdivs
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Edge loops and creases part 213:32
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Lecture Title:
Adding the edgeloops and crease
Lecture Description:
Lets now start to add the creases and edgeloops to our armour.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Fixing mistakes6:18
ZBRUSH4 R8 COURSE - Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour a full workshop!
Lecture Title:
Things sometimes go wrong!
Lecture Description:
Lets correct the topology! on the helmet I need to correct the edge flow as it is incorrect lets do it!
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - More edge loops11:38
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Lecture Title:
More edgeloops
Lecture Description:
Lets add more loops.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Setting up the front armour11:08
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Lecture Title:
Setting up the front armour
Lecture Description:
Front armour ammends.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Front Armour extrusions8:51
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Lecture Title:
Front Armour Extrusions
Lecture Description:
Lets finish setting up the front armour.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - What are UVs??13:21
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Lecture Title:
Maya and looking at UVs
Lecture Description:
In this lecture I will be jumping out of ZBrush for demo purposes I want to explain UV layouts to you and Maya makes it much more visible for you to see whats going on, you do not need to do this as we will be doing it in ZBrush anyway this is for demo purposes only!
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - UV setup in ZBrush part 17:36
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Lecture Title:
Setting up UVs in ZBrush
Lecture Description:
In the next few lesson we will look at unwrapping inside ZBrush and using our custom checkermap to check its all ok.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - UV setup in ZBrush part 210:57
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Lecture Title:
Unwrap the pieces
Lecture Description:
Repeating previous steps lets unwrap UVs.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Polygrouping and selections9:23
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Lecture Title:
Selection by polygrouping and masking
Lecture Description:
I want to go over the importants of being able to confidently select polygroups, how we set them up and methods for doing this!
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Softcreases6:53
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Lecture Title:
Soft creases and how to apply them
Lecture Description:
Lets add softer creases and look at an example its really important to understand this fully
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Creating tileable patterns in Photoshop14:08
ZBRUSH4 R8 COURSE - Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour a full workshop!
Lecture Title:
Creating tileable patterns
Lecture Description:
Being able to create your own designs and tileable patterns is a great skill I will show you a method for doing this inside Photoshop!
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Applying our pattern with surface noise7:03
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Lecture Title:
Applying our Pattern
Lecture Description:
We will now use surface noise to place our repeating pattern into the armour, we will also isolate unwanted pattern from appearing.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Smooth UVs and Layer control6:45
ZBRUSH4 R8 COURSE - Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour a full workshop!
Lecture Title:
Explaing Smooth UVs and Layer Control
Lecture Description:
In this lecture we will smooth our unsmoothed UVs and look at the layer control we have.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Detailing the Front Armour14:44
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Lecture Title:
Working on the front armour detail
Lecture Description:
Lets start to add the detail onto our front piece and start to subdivide in preparation to baking our pattern into the Armour.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Polygrouping Armour19:04
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Lecture Title:
Polygrouping Armour
Lecture Description:
To have full control and an easy way to select and isolate our armour we are going to polygroup it all.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - How to set up Multpart UVs14:02
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Lecture Title:
Setting up multple UV sets
Lecture Description:
In this lecture I am going to show you how to set up a single UV sets from multiple subtools.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Splitting7:18
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Lecture Title:
Split Armour
Lecture Description:
Split armour to parts a good tool to know!
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Create the lion VDB16:21
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Lecture Title:
Creating the Lion tool
Lecture Description:
On our armour we have a lionshead I am going to show you how I sculpted this in preparation to convert it to a vector displacement brush!
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Create the lion VDB part 214:04
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Lecture Title:
The Vector Displacement Lionhead brush
Lecture Description:
Its easy to make vector displacement brushes and fun you can reuse these in other projects, and remember VDB give you overhangs!!
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Shoulder piece pattern10:08
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Lecture Title:
Shoulder piece pattern
Lecture Description:
Lets detail the shoulder piece.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Elbow detailing16:10
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Lecture Title:
Adding the elbow details
Lecture Description:
Lets add the elbow detail and use the surface noise to help us as well.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Detailing the rest11:53
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Lecture Title:
Repeating methods for the other pieces
Lecture Description:
Lets whip through the other pieces using methods already learnt.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Mirror12:23
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Lecture Title:
Mirror pieces
Lecture Description:
Lets now use subtool master to mirror the armour.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Neck Detailing14:46
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Lecture Title:
Adding neck detail
Lecture Description:
we will use drag dot and the mirror symmetry to be able to place our lion design on our neck piece.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Neck Detailing part 216:40
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Lecture Title:
Finishing the neck detail
Lecture Description:
Lets add the repeating patter onto the neck area and use a quick mask technique.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Fixing the helmet11:28
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Lecture Title:
Fixing the helmet
Lecture Description:
Lets now do some fixes on the helmet.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - A lion emblem14:34
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Lecture Title:
Creating a lion emblem
Lecture Description:
OK so I don't end up using this as it was terrible but it does show another technique!I apologise for the state of the lion I realised I did not want to go this route but thought I would include this lecture anyway!! :)
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Detailing with mask control16:45
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Lecture Title:
Adding and controlling detail with masking on the helmet
Lecture Description:
Lets add the details to the helmet.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - nano mesh for the chainmail19:45
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Lecture Title:
Creating chainmail with nanomeshes
Lecture Description:
This is very detailed and not what I use in the end opting for an alpha as it means its easier to print and less taxing on the memory, but still a good method to use for mega detailed Armour links.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Alpha control chainmail19:32
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Lecture Title:
Creating alpha for the chainmail
Lecture Description:
Lets create a repeating alpha we can use for the chainmail.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Finishing the alpha chainmail2:46
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Lecture Title:
FInishing the alpha Chainmail
Lecture Description:
Lets finish the chainmail!
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Skirt Detailing17:29
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Lecture Title:
The skirt detailing
Lecture Description:
Now we will create a pattern and apply it direct to the UVs.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - finishing the skirt15:27
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Lecture Title:
Finishing the skirt
Lecture Description:
Lets carry on adjusting and sculpting the skirt.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Textures with Goz17:23
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Lecture Title:
Other method for getting the texture and UVs across
Lecture Description:
We can use the handy Goz tool to export the UVs across to Photoshop this can give us a lot of control and apply direct to the model using Photoshops 3D functions.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Texture and mask for skirt12:50
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Lecture Title:
Texturing and masking methods front Skirt
Lecture Description:
Lets now have more control over where our textures go using the UVs!
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Flanking armour pieces18:06
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Lecture Title:
Creating some side flanking armour
Lecture Description:
Lets create some geometry for the flanking armour pieces.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Finishing the gloves15:39
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Lecture Title:
Gloves
Lecture Description:
Lets finish the gloves.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Finishing the boots13:52
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Lecture Title:
Boots
Lecture Description:
Lets finish the boots as this is an armour course I am nor spending long on the gloves or the boots make sure you completely finish your add stitching using the mesh insert brushes there are a lot of handy tools already in ZBrush explore and play with these!!
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Final fitting7:33
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Lecture Title:
Fitting the parts
Lecture Description:
Lets go around the model and fit the armour better also make sure there is no intersecting parts.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Buckles part 12:44
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Lecture Title:
The buckles
Lecture Description:
We will spend a little bit of time creating buckles and belts over the next few lectures, I feel its important to be able to do these as it really brings the character to life!
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Buckles part 215:22
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Lecture Title:
Buckle and belts lecture
Lecture Description:
Continue to work on the belts and buckles
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Buckles part 311:46
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Lecture Title:
Buckle and belts lecture
Lecture Description:
Continue to work on the belts and buckles
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Buckles part 417:15
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Lecture Title:
Buckle and belts lecture
Lecture Description:
Continue to work on the belts and buckles
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Buckles part 514:42
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Lecture Title:
Placing the buckle
Lecture Description:
Lets fit our buckle
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Multi meshes basics11:00
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Lecture Title:
Basics of the multi mesh brush
Lecture Description:
In this lecture I am going to show you the basics of the multi mesh insert brushes.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Creating our multimesh belt brush9:20
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Lecture Title:
Creating our Belt
Lecture Description:
Lets make the belt that will eventually wrap around the waiste area.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Creating the curve brush for our belt4:03
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Lecture Title:
Finishing the belt and creating a curve brush from it
Lecture Description:
Lets make a curve brush from our multi mesh belt!
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Adding the belt18:10
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Lecture Title:
Adding the belt to the character
Lecture Description:
Lets now run our brush around the characters waiste.
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Custom material and Doc size15:23
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Lecture Title:
Materials and doc size
Lecture Description:
Creating the correct doc size and modifying a material to get the look you want
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Final render11:44
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Lecture Title:
Final render
Lecture Description:
Lets do our final render in Zbrush and composite in Photoshop!
Well done for finishing the course I am confident by now you have all the tools to create amazing armour!!!!
Armour up and go to battle!!!!
- Creating Game of Thrones Style Armour - Bonus reusing basemeshes16:12
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Lecture Title:
Reusing the base mesh
Lecture Description:
As a bonus I wanted to show you how you could use the original base mesh and create other armour panels from it this could save you a lot of time, this in combination with libraries of custom alpha and brushes, makes life so much easier for similar projects.
I would like to thank all of you who have invested in this course I always try to give you great value for money and by supporting me allow me to create even better courses in the future I SALUTE YOU ALL :)
- BONUS LECTURE - HELP AND ADVICE0:23
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Requirements
- You should have ZBrush4 R8
- You should have Photoshop CC
Description
Welcome one and all!
Learn to create Armour in fact any hardsurfaces in this detailed course, during this course I will lift the lid on the technqiues that are currently being used by professional to create armour using ZBrush, not just one technique but a pletherer of them! this course has been packed with key skills and its aim is for you to be able to create any kind of armour you choose or imagine!
Just look below on some of the things we will cover in detail, using my special training technique of repetition and problem solving your be armouring your selves up in no time!!
Course Key Features
- Using a besmesh for our armour
- Extractions, topology and rigging to create our base armour
- ZModeller brush to create the armour and panel loops
- Dynamic subdiv previews
- The use of UVs with Surface noise
- Control with layers
- Alpha Armour
- Nanomesh techniques
- UV texturing both manual and via Goz
- using and creating vector displacement brushes
- Creating a multinsert mesh and using it as a curve brush
- Creating a custom modified material
- Final Comp in Photoshop
- Loads of tips and tricks along the way...
As you can see its certainly is an action packed course!!!
See you inside...
Who this course is for:
- If your feeling brave a beginner could try this course however it is meant for Intermedates to Advanced level ZBrush Artists