ZBrush Character Creation - Advanced Digital Sculpting 2nd Edition

■ Building a ZSphere Biped 217 skinning helps create a mesh that much more closely resembles the volume and position of the unde ...

218 chapter 6 ■ ZSpheres Mc off Mc on Figure 6.34 The effect of Minimal Skin To Child on the intersections of the mesh You’ll se ...

■ Building a ZSphere Biped 219 ZSphere Base ZSpheres2 Default Skin Classic Skin Figure 6.36 The same ZSphere model under both sk ...

220 chapter 6 ■ ZSpheres Menu Option Description Make Adaptive Skin Creates a polymesh based on the Adaptive Skin settings Inser ...

■ Building a ZSphere Biped 221 You’ll notice the topology for the face is a bit awkward. It will serve our needs, but you may fi ...

222 chapter 6 ■ ZSpheres character sculpture from ZSphere—start to final detailed finish—see the accompanying DVD. I have includ ...

■ Building a ZSphere Biped 223 Featured Artist: The Art of Bryan Wynia Bryan is a talented creature artist who started in Makeup ...

Chapter seven ...

Transpose, ZSphere Rigging, Retopology, and Mesh Extraction In this chapter we’ll look at the ZBrush Transpose tools as well as ...

226 chapter 7 ■ Transpose, ZSphere Rigging, Retopology, and Mesh Extraction In previous chapters we have used Transpose for movi ...

■ Moving and Posing Figures with Transpose 227 abc Giant by Jim McPherson courtesy of Gentle Giant Studios and Secret Level/Sega ...

228 chapter 7 ■ Transpose, ZSphere Rigging, Retopology, and Mesh Extraction To scale an object, make sure Scale is active at the ...

■ Moving and Posing Figures with Transpose 229 Figure 7.5 Drawing an action line from the figure to the background will create t ...

230 chapter 7 ■ Transpose, ZSphere Rigging, Retopology, and Mesh Extraction In Transpose mode, there is another pow- erful maski ...

■ Moving and Posing Figures with Transpose 231 Skin and fat stretches on the elongated side of the body Passive leg is up on bal ...

232 chapter 7 ■ Transpose, ZSphere Rigging, Retopology, and Mesh Extraction We will manually delete the subtools in this exercis ...

■ Moving and Posing Figures with Transpose 233 Figure 7.12 The legs rotated with Symmetry on Let’s add a forearm twist. Mask do ...

234 chapter 7 ■ Transpose, ZSphere Rigging, Retopology, and Mesh Extraction a Compress Stretch bc Figure 7.14 Masking and rotati ...

■ Transpose Master 235 When posing your figures, keep in mind some artistic considerations. Most important is to maintain a sens ...

236 chapter 7 ■ Transpose, ZSphere Rigging, Retopology, and Mesh Extraction By using masking in conjunction with poly- groups, ...