ZBrush Studio Projects

Ryan Kingslien is the founder of www.zbrushworkshops.com. He was the first product manager for ZBrush at Pixologic, where he meshed programmers and artists to help create some of the revolutionary tools in ZBrush. He also created the first industry-standard curriculum and documentation that helped bring ZBrush to companies such as ILM, Sony Pictures Imageworks, and Electronic Arts.

Introduction. Chapter 1 Sculpting Tools and Workflow. The Problem of Sculpting. Our Sculpting Toolkit. Unpacking Our Toolkit. The Road Ahead. Chapter 2 Sculpting the Body. Proportions. Project 1: Modeling Base Mesh in Maya. Project 2: Bony Landmarks. Project 3: Volume and Massing. Project 4: Painting in the Anatomy. Project 5: Filling in the Anatomy. Chapter 3 The Head and the Face. Proportions. Project: Establishing the Foundation. Project: Establishing the Eye. Project: Establishing the Nose. Project: Establishing the Mouth. Project: Creating New Topology. Summary. Chapter 4 Texturing the Head. Project: Texture Painting by Hand. Project: Texture Painting Approach #2 ZAppLink. Summary. Chapter 5 Suiting Up with Clothes. Creating a Jacket. Summary. Chapter 6 Building Weapons. The Anatomy of the Weapon. Anatomy of the Holster. Texturing. Summary. Chapter 7 Getting It Into the Game. The Topology Spectrum. Project: Topology - Removing Interior Polygons. Project: Topology - Combining Parts. Project: Adding the Holster. Project: Topology - Decimation Master & Polypainting. Project: In-Game Hair. Project: Create UVs using UV Master. Project: UVs, Topology, and the Platform. Project: Creating Maps. Project: Setting Up Model in Maya. Assessing Your Topology. Project: Importing Jacket's Reflowed Topology. Project: Getting Model into Marmoset. Summary. Chapter 8 Posing and Rendering in ZBrush. Project: Finding the Pose with Mannequins. Project: Establishing the Pose for the Body. Project: Posing Multiple Objects. Project: Creating the Base. Project: Damaging the Base. Project: Shadows and Ambient Occlusion. Project: Using Render Passes. Project: Plastic Maquette Material. Project: Adding Some SSS. Project: Timeline Turntable. Project: XPose. Project: Exporting a Movie. Summary. Appendix About the Companion DVD. What You'll Find on the DVD. System Requirements. Using the DVD. Troubleshooting. Customer Care. Index.