ZBrush Character Creation - Advanced Digital Sculpting 2nd Edition

■ Moving and Posing Figures with Transpose 227

abc Giant by Jim McPherson courtesy of Gentle Giant Studios and Secret Level/Sega

Figure 7.2 To center a joint: (a) Draw an action line in the front view. (b) Snap to an orthographic side view.
(c) Move the circles from the side to place them correctly in relation to the figure.

To use the action line, click and drag from the center of one of the endpoints. You will
know the endpoint is active when a red dot appears in the circle. With Move active, clicking in
the center point will move the entire object, while clicking and dragging from one of the end-
points will scale the object proportionately as if the opposite end of the line were the world
space origin (Figure 7.3). Holding down the Shift key while you drag will constrain the move-
ment to a single axis.

The transpose line can be used as a measuring tool in ZBrush. The distance between

the start- and endpoints is shown in the upper-left corner of the screen while using

Transpose. The units and display can be altered under Preferences → Transpose Units.

Drag here to move the figure.

Drag an endpoint to shear

the object; the other

endpoint will be treated as

the origin of the effect.

Figure 7.3 Move with Transpose