ZBrush Character Creation - Advanced Digital Sculpting 2nd Edition

■ Advanced Techniques: Sculpting the Demon Beast 117 That completes this sculpting exercise. Figure 3.80 shows the final creatur ...

Chapter four Image courtesy of Cesar Dacol ...

ZBrush for Detailing So far we have been sculpting characters with a focus on primary and secondary forms—that is, the skeletal ...

120 chapter 4 ■ ZBrush for Detailing Figure 4.1 These images illustrate what constitutes (left to right) primary and secondary f ...

■ Alphas 121 Alphas Alphas in ZBrush are grayscale images that serve three major functions: they can be brush shapes, texture st ...

122 chapter 4 ■ ZBrush for Detailing There are three locations where you can find set- tings that pertain to alphas. First, on t ...

■ Alphas 123 on the model surface with different alphas selected. Notice how the radial alphas create a seamless fluid stroke wh ...

124 chapter 4 ■ ZBrush for Detailing Table 4.1: The Alpha menu options Menu Option Description Blur Adds a Gaussian blur to the ...

■ Alphas 125 Figure 4.10 DragRect texture stamp process Alphas and Strokes The way the currently selected alpha is applied to th ...

126 chapter 4 ■ ZBrush for Detailing Figure 4.12 The Stroke palette located at the left side of the screen between the Brush and ...

■ Alphas 127 Turn on the Roll modifier in the Stroke menu. Activating the Roll button will draw a single instance of the alpha ...

128 chapter 4 ■ ZBrush for Detailing Under the Stroke menu at the top of the screen, click the Replay Last button, or press the ...

■ Alphas 129 Raise the LazySteps slider to about 1.25. Apply the stroke to the surface. The texture will apply in concentrated ...

130 chapter 4 ■ ZBrush for Detailing Press the spacebar to bring up the coin operator, which allows you to move, rotate, and sc ...

■ Alphas 131 The Stencil Menu From the top of the screen, select the Stencil menu. Use the radial button to tear this menu off t ...

132 chapter 4 ■ ZBrush for Detailing can be distracting when sculpting. You can turn off Show to keep the stencil active, but it ...

■ Alphas 133 Create a selection in Photoshop, and save it by choosing Selection → Save Selection. Name the selection stencil (F ...

134 chapter 4 ■ ZBrush for Detailing In this section we’ll import an image of skin detail and use it as an alpha (Figure 4.31). ...

■ Alphas 135 Your Alpha Library To have ZBrush load your favorite alphas by default into the Alpha menu directly, simply copy th ...

136 chapter 4 ■ ZBrush for Detailing If you had used ZAdd instead of ZSub, the alpha would be white on black. This is impor- tan ...