Digital Tutors - Your First Day in ZBrush

Duration 1h 37m

When learning a new software package, sometimes it's good to just jump in with both feet and create something. In this tutorial we'll do just that as we create a little creature from base geometry to finished painted sculpt.

We'll cover methods of working with geometry. We'll learn to shape and sculpt our mesh. We'll add high-frequency detail using layers and talk about creating UVs. We'll also paint a texture for our creature and learn to use photographs to add to those textures.

This step-by-step tutorial is designed to be a quick look at ZBrush to allow you to get the feel of working on a whole project, without bogging down in the details of the interface or blasting you with every workflow possibility. Once you're done, we encourage you to go deeper with the Introduction to ZBrush, Quick Start to ZBrush, or any of our project based tutorials.

1. Introduction and project overview

2. Creating geometry from zspheres

3. Adding features with DynaMesh

4. Creating the final base mesh

5. Appending geometry

6. Sculpting the character

7. Adding high-frequency skin detail

8. Posing the character

9. Adding detail with layers

10. Working with materials and lights

11. Polypainting the character

12. Painting using Spotlight

13. Creating UVs

14. Output options