Digital Tutors - Sculpting a Zombie Dog in ZBrush

What you will learn

In this ZBrush tutorial our focus is going to be on animal anatomy and how to adapt it when we need to ?zombify? something.

We will take a look at how the skin retracts onto the body, how visible the bones and muscles are and what sort of changes we can implement to make our dog look just different enough from the source material.

The workflow is displayed in its entirety so you wont miss any details on how to construct your own creatures with correct anatomical structure and cool detail.

Upon completing this tutorial you will have a solid understanding of quadruped anatomy and how to tweak it to fit your needs.

1. Introduction and project overview

2. Taking a look at our reference

3. Modifying our base mesh

4. Establishing our major landmarks

5. Tweaking our proportions

6. Refining our landmarks

7. Dividing our model and adding more detail

8. Adding more muscle structure to the model

9. Sculpting the head of our dog

10. Continuing to work on the head

11. Reshaping the back claws

12. Reshaping the front claws

13. Refining our overall sculpt

14. Creating clean geometry with QRemesher

15. Continuing to sculpt on the entire body

16. Adding bony landmarks to our legs

17. Sculpting the back legs

18. Adding details to the body and spine

19. Refining the spine and back muscles

20. Sculpting the face

21. Refining the shapes of the face

22. Adding more detail to the head

23. Sculpting time-lapse of overall refinements

24. Adding new geometry for the claws

25. Sculpting more detail all over the model

26. Breaking symmetry on the head

27. Creating a custom wrinkle brush

28. Final tweaks and details

29. Using Transpose to pose our model

30. Creating some ground for our model to stand on

31. Polypaint overview

32. Taking a look at our final render composite