ZBrush Character Creation - Advanced Digital Sculpting 2nd Edition

xiv ■ Contents

• Chapter 1 Sculpting, from Traditional to Digital Introduction xvii
  
  
  • Gesture, Form, and Proportion
    
    
    • Gesture
    
    
    • Form
    
    
    • Proportion
    
    
    • Best Practices for Digital Sculpting
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • ZBrush Interface General Overview
    
    
    • Masking and Visibility Brushes
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Using the ZBrush Tools
    
    
    • Creating a 2.5D Pixol Illustration
    
    
    • Sculpting a Lion’s Head
    
    
    • Adding Subtools
    
    
    • Refining Your Model
    
    
    • Finishing Your Model
    
    
    • Creating a 2.5D Pixol Illustration
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Chapter 2 Sculpting in ZBrush
  
  
  • An Approach to Sculpting
  
  
  • The Brush Menu
    
    
    • The Brush Menu
    
    
    • Saving Custom Brushes
    
    
    • The Clay Brushes
    
    
    • The Polish, Planar, and Trim Brushes
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • The Écorché Approach to Sculpting
    
    
    • Saving Your Work
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Sculpting the Skull
    
    
    • Measuring with the Transpose Line
    
    
    • Roughing in the Shape of the Skull x ■ Contents
    
    
    • Mass Sculpting the Forms of the Facial
    
    
    • Sculpting the Muscles
    
    
    • Adding the Eyes
    
    
    • Sculpting Skin and Fat on the Face
    
    
    • Adding the Neck
    
    
    • Sculpting the Neck Muscles
    
    
    • Sculpting Ears
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Chapter 3 Designing a Character Bust
  
  
  • Meshes ZBrush and Working with Imported
    
    
    • Optimizing Meshes for ZBrush
    
    
    • with Local Subdivision Increasing Polygon Counts
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Sculpting Importing and Preparing a Mesh for
    
    
    • to Organize Your Mesh Using Polygroups
    
    
    • Setting Up GoZ and Subtool Master
    
    
    • Installing GoZ
    
    
    • Sculpting a Character Bust
    
    
    • Adding Geometry Using Mesh Insert
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Sculpting the Demon Beast Advanced Techniques:
    
    
    • Adding Geometry for the Horns
    
    
    • Refining the Character Bust
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Chapter 4 ZBrush for Detailing
  
  
  • Form and Details
  
  
  • Alphas
    
    
    • Alphas and Strokes
    
    
    • Alphas as Stencils
    
    
    • ZAppLink Stencils
    
    
    • Importing Images to Use as Alphas
    
    
    • Sculpting Alphas in ZBrush
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Details and Layers ■ Contents xi
    
    
    • Alphas and Stencils Detailing the Stingerhead with
    
    
    • Geometry Sculpting Fine Details with HD
    
    
    • Geometry Creating Bump Maps with HD
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Another Take on Detailing
  
  
  
  


• Chapter 5 Texture Painting
  
  
  • UVs in ZBrush
  
  
  • The Texture Menus
    
    
    • UV Projection Texture Method
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • What Is Polypainting?
  
  
  • Painting a Creature Skin
    
    
    • Color Theory
    
    
    • Making a Custom Spray Brush
    
    
    • of the Face Blocking in Temperature Zones
    
    
    • Mottling Pass
    
    
    • Base Color Washes
    
    
    • Temperature Adjustment
    
    
    • Projection Master for the Stinger
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • ZAppLink
    
    
    • Baking Polypaint to UV Texture Space
    
    
    • ZAppLink Views
    
    
    • SpotLight for Texture Painting
    
    
    • Polypaint with HD
    
    
    • Extracting Maps from the HD
    
    
    • UV Master Plug-in
    
    
    • Control Painting Tools
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Chapter 6 ZSpheres
  
  
  • Introducing ZSpheres
    
    
    • Drawing a Simple ZSphere Chain
    
    
    • ZSpheres and Chains Moving, Scaling, and Rotating
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Building a ZSphere Biped xii ■ Contents
    
    
    • Making Hands and Feet
    
    
    • Adaptive Skin Controls
    
    
    • Adding Edge Loops to the Head
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• and Mesh Extraction Chapter 7 Transpose, ZSphere Rigging, Retopology,
  
  
  • with Transpose Moving and Posing Figures
    
    
    • The Action Line
    
    
    • Topology Masking
    
    
    • Posing a Figure
    
    
    • Posable Symmetry
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Transpose Master
  
  
  • Retopology
    
    
    • Preparing for Retopology
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Using the Topology Tools
    
    
    • Importing Topology: Three Methods
    
    
    • Project All and the ZProject Brush
    
    
    • Importing a Mesh Directly
    
    
    • Changing Topology with GoZ
    
    
    • Topology Tools Advanced Applications
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • and Mesh Extraction Building Accessories with Topology Tools
    
    
    • Making a Shirt with Mesh Extraction
    
    
    • with ZSphere Subtools Adding Suspenders
    
    
    • ZSphere Rigging
    
    
    • Transpose Measuring
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Photoshop Composites Chapter 8 ZBrush Movies and
  
  
  • ZMovie
    
    
    • Recording the Screen
    
    
    • Turntable Animations
    
    
    • Introducing the Timeline
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • ZBrush to Photoshop ■ Contents xiii
    
    
    • Placing the Character Setting Up the Canvas and
    
    
    • Creating Render Passes
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Photoshop Compositing
    
    
    • Loading the Renders as Layers
    
    
    • Punching Up the Details
    
    
    • Painting Eyes
    
    
    • Finishing Touches
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Maya, and Decimation Master Chapter 9 Normal Maps, Displacement Maps,
  
  
  • What’s a Difference Map?
    
    
    • Displacement Maps
    
    
    • Normal Maps
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • to Maya Using GoZ Exporting Directly from ZBrush
    
    
    • Installing GoZ
    
    
    • Exporting to Maya Using GoZ
    
    
    • Displacement Maps Exporting to Maya Using
    
    
    • in Maya with mental ray Rendering Displacement
    
    
    • ZBrush Manually Exporting Your Model from
    
    
    • UVs and Vertex Order
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Generating Displacement Maps
    
    
    • Accessing Your Original Mesh Shape
    
    
    • Making 16-Bit Maps
    
    
    • Making 32-Bit Floating-Point Maps
    
    
    • Multiple Maps per UV Region
    
    
    • Displacement Menu Options
    
    
    • for Use in mental ray Processing Displacement Maps
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Setting Up Your Scene for Displacement
    
    
    • Displacement Renders in Maya Setting Up Single 32-Bit
      
      
      • Displacement Renders in Maya Setting Up Multimap 32-Bit
      
      
      • Displacement Renders in Maya Setting Up 16-Bit
      
      
      
      
    
    
    • Applying Bump Maps in Maya
    
    
    • Moving into Maya Common Problems When
      
      
      • Troubleshooting Renders and Artifacts
      
      
      • Normal Maps
      
      
      
      
    
    
    • Rendering Normal Maps in Maya
      
      
      • Maya Normal Map Setup
      
      
      
      
    
    
    • Cavity and Ambient Occlusion Maps
      
      
      • Multi Map Exporter Creating Maps Using
      
      
      • Exporting with Decimation Master
      
      
      • 3D Printing
      
      
      
      
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Chapter 10 ZSketch and Hard-Surface Brushes
  
  
  • ZSketch
  
  
  • Hard-Surface Sculpting
    
    
    • Hard-Surface Brushes
    
    
    • and Matchmaker ShadowBox, Group Loops,
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Create a Ray Gun
  
  
  
  


• Appendix About the Companion DVD
  
  
  • What You’ll Find on the DVD
    
    
    • Chapter Files
    
    
    • Bonus PDFs
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • System Requirements
  
  
  • Using the DVD
  
  
  • Troubleshooting
  
  
  • Customer Care
  
  
  • Index