Jan 23, 2006

“UV mapping ” by Ken Brilliant ZBrush does a great job of protecting the artist from too many technical decisions during the creation process. For example, once you model an object, you can immediately start painting textures for it in a 3D fashion using Texture Master or 3D copy. You do not need to worry how that texture wraps onto the model....

Jan 21, 2006

“Creating a high res mesh ” by Glen Southern Here’s a little of my work flow in ZBrush 1.55b. I do use Normal mapping in Lightwave and this method can be used to create high res meshes to be taken out of ZB and used for normal mapping in LW (but thats not why I do it, I just like the ZB output) 3Dtutorials.sk recommendation: To maximise the...

Jan 21, 2006

“Dino” by Glen Southern This tutorial is aimed at 3D artists that are new to SILO but have some knowledge of Polygonal modeling. Box modeling can be achieved with most sub-division modeling packages ( Silo, Wings, Lightwave, Maya, C4D etc.) and the process described in this Silo tutorial can be applied to many of them. The screen shot below gives an...

Jan 20, 2006

“Importing models into ZBrush” by Glen Southern GETTING STARTED To begin this tutorial you will need a Poser model (or body part) that has been exported to a format that ZBrush recognizes, currently .OBJ or .DXF. ZBrush has it`s own native format (The ZTOOL or .ZTL) and once a mesh has been imported into ZBrush it can be saved in that format...

Jan 19, 2006

“Fiber brush settings” by Glen Southern Get yourself a model that needs some hair. 3Dtutorials.sk recommendation: To maximise the realism of your 3D characters we recommend to use high quality human photo textures from the #1 texture website www.3D.sk Render him out using BEST RENDER in the RENDER panel with whatever light/material/shadow settings...