Mold3D is proud to present a 3D printing workshop designed specifically for character artists. If you’ve always wanted to take your characters from screen to print, this is the place to start! You’ll learn everything you need to know about bringing your ZBrush designs to life. Be sure to visit the Mold3D website for more details. Sign up today!
Take your industrial design skills further with this in-depth look at automotive design. Car Stylus: Digital Tools & Techniques for Vehicle designers is a website dedicated to advancing your skills in the areas of vehicle and industrial design. With a mantra “geared” toward helping designers master the newest and latest tools, Car Stylus ensures “that busy designers get timely tips, tricks and techniques that’ll help improve digital workflows.” The video tutorials are thorough and hammer home key concepts that will no doubt help with your next project. For even more industrial design tutorials, check out our latest video series on designing a futuristic helmet.
The Gnomon Workshop has released its long-awaited Introduction to ZBrush 4R7 video series. This incredibly detailed tuition by Madeleine Scott-Spencer provides the most comprehensive set of instructional videos ever created for ZBrush. Over the course of 12 hours of instructional videos, Madeleine provides a detailed explanation of each tool and process from a practical approach with an emphasis on technique.
For more information about the topics covered, chapters, and specifications, head to The Gnomon Workshop website, plus check out this sample video:
Pixologic’s own talented 3D artist Joseph Drust has recently developed a six part ZClassroom video series covering architectural design using ZBrush’s latest features. The comprehensive series will guide you through the design, development and rendering of a skyscraper using techniques that can easily be applied to numerous other types of modeling as well. You will get in depth explanation and application of ZBrush features such as ZModeler Brush, NanoMesh, Alpha creation, 2.5D features, Surface Noise as well as the ZBrush to KeyShot Bridge. Don’t miss this invaluable experience that will help bring your sculpting skills to the next level!
Start the series over at ZClassroom today
Hosted by AnatomyTools.com & the Gnomon School, this workshop will take place right after the 2015 ZBrush Summit from Tuesday, September 29th through Saturday, September 3rd. Work one-on-one with Andrew Cawrse & Kris Costa, two of the world’s leading artists and experts on human anatomy.
The course will include 50+ hours of incredible instruction and ZBrush demonstrations of sculpting from live models. Plus, enjoy a private tour and lecture at the BODIES Exhibit.
For more information, visit AnatomyTools.com
Glauco Longhi stopped by the Gnomon School of Visual Effects August 13th to give an exclusive workshop centered around human anatomy sculpting. Glauco is a traditional and digital sculptor, currently employed as a Character Artist on Uncharted 4 at Naughty Dog in Santa Monica. His presentation includes both traditional and digital techniques and a ZBrush demo of a human torso.
Catch the Livestream recording in full here
Mold3D, best known for their 3D Printing educational content, workshops, digital products and more, has recently launched a new online platform, Mold3D Academy.
Their mission is to create one of a kind programs to educate the aspiring maker. Classes are lead by experienced designers in fields of toy design, jewelry design, product/industrial design, and prototyping for the entertainment industry.
Along with these programs, 4 new exciting ZBrush courses are being announced.
-3D Printing for ZBrush Artists
-Jewelry Design for 3D Printing
-Mastering Organic Modeling
-Intro to ZBrush Character Creation.
If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to create your own products, this new lineup of ZBrush courses is a great way to start!
To find out more information : mold3dacademy.com
How cool is this? ZBrush Central member Michael Pavlovich created his own ‘Intro to ZBrush’ guide to help you get started sculpting digitally in no time! The guide comes in the form of a 47 part YouTube playlist. You know what that means, right? You can start watching RIGHT NOW for free! Don’t miss this one. Our users make for such a great online community who support one another so well and Michael is no exception. Thanks for putting this out Michael!
Check out the ZBC thread here
Using Twitter, simply ask a question using the hashtag #AskZBrush. Our experts @Pixologic will review all questions and follow up with a short video answering the best questions. The #AskZBrush system is set up to provide answers to questions that would generate 3-10 minute videos.
Our specialists won’t answer broad training or tutorial-type questions such as, “How do I sculpt a full character?” Rather they will focus on specific questions like, “How can I sculpt on thin pieces of geometry?” or “How can I display reference images with SpotLight?”
Keeping the question simple and specific will increase the chance of your question being answered!
To learn more about #AskZBrush, please visit the official ZBrushCentral thread here
#AskZBrush YouTube channel
Follow @Pixologic on Twitter and use the hashtag #AskZBrush
Kurt Williams has written up 10 very useful tips for getting the most out of ZBrush over at DigitalTutors.com. Check out the article here and add more ammo to your ZBrush arsenal!
We are very excited to announce that Pixologic friend, artist and ZBrushCentral frequenter Pablo Muñoz has just launched his own website dedicated to ZBrush tutorials and guides based on his artistic process: ZBrushGuides.com! Pablo is dedicating himself full-time to maintaining the website which will feature everything that he works on in ZBrush while giving detailed information on how he does what he does.
It pleases us to no end watching the ZBrush community grow and flourish on its own with artists supporting one another on their journey towards mastery of not only the technology, but the art of sculpture itself. We encourage everyone to add Pablo’s site to their bookmarks and keep the community growing! The world is getting very close to having 3D technology in more and more homes and we are proud to know that once that day is upon us, users will be able to find an amazing group of talented artists and mentors awaiting them the first time they type “ZBrush” into a search engine.
Join us for an exploration into the numerous workflows using ZBrush and it’s powerful features. Our new first ever 1.5 hour webinar on March 24th will be hosted by Pixologic’s own development team and is open to all. The first webinar will tackle ZModeler and tell you all you need to know to make all sorts of hard surface goodness with ZBrush!
Register ahead of time to ensure a space!
Find more information about the webinar in the official ZBrushCentral thread
Pablo from ZBrushGuides.com has provided a great new tutorial to help you with understanding brush modifiers in ZBrush including how to create his signature “double action” brushes and use them effectively. There are hundreds of brushes available in ZBrush and in this tutorial, you will learn how to creatively modify them to create a limitless arsenal of tools to work with. Become a faster, more powerful ZBrusher today and become inspired to create brushes of your own to suit your every need!
Join us for Pixologic’s second ZBrush Webinar!
Title: Don’t Just Build It: Array Mesh It
Date: April 27th, 2016
Start Time: 12:00 PM PDT (Los Angeles) – Click for Your Time
Duration: 1 1/2 hours, including Q&A
Cost: Free
Features Covered: Array Mesh (All Options) and using the TransPose Line with Array Mesh.
The Array Mesh feature offers a unique instancing system that makes it possible for you to experiment with elaborate scenes while maintaining a low polygon count. Released as part of ZBrush 4R7, the Array mesh system can duplicate a single piece of geometry as many times as needed, and in boundless configurations. This workshop will focus on how Array Mesh can be used to build elaborate landscapes, as well as for adding that last bit of detail to accessories, weapons and small props.
Pixologic friend and ZBrushCentral regular Gio Nakpil recently held his Master Organic Modeling Class with Mold3D Academy. Gio is an industry veteran who has worked for Industrial Light and Magic, Valve and now Oculus. His students learned a great deal and churned out some great work which he has shared with the ZBrushCentral community! It’s always inspiring to see what the knowledge of a professional artist combined with a few weeks of hard work can do to take new artists to the next level!
Be sure to stop by and show some love to the students on the ZBrushCentral thread
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Rangsit University in Thailand has recently added ZBrush to their Digital Art curriculum. The students there have begun learning how to do everything in ZBrush from sketching and painting all the way up to sculpting and preparing for 3D printing.
Come and check out the ZBrushCentral thread featuring work by these talented students! The work being produced is already looking amazing!
Our friends at 3dtotal Publishing have just launched their latest book, Sculpting from the Imagination: ZBrush, a first-class anthology featuring 50 talented ZBrush artists who share their stunning 3D sketches, artist tips, and invaluable insight into their workflow. To celebrate, 3dtotal has given us an exclusive free extract by freelance digital sculptor James W. Cain – we hope you enjoy it! If you like what you see, grab your copy today from 3dtotal’s online shop.
Download your free PDF sample here! Sculpting from the Imagination SAMPLE
Artist Ryan Lim has written an educational book entitled “Learn ZBrush 4 Beginner’s Guide” for the Korean reader. Learn how to design a character from initial concept to final render with this complete guide! You can purchase the book by clicking the link below. Be sure to share with Korean speaking friends looking for a quality ZBrush guide!
Pablo Munoz has released a new tutorial over at ZBrushGuides.com that you may find very useful if you are looking to step your comping game up! The complete guide covers everything you need to know about compositing ZBrush BPR render passes in Photoshop.
Head over to ZBrushGuides.com to check it out!
More and more artists are discovering that ZBrush is not only a great tool for creating 3D art, but an indispensable aid for creating compelling 2D art as well. Illustrators are using ZBrush to quickly develop concepts for their 2D artwork which allows them to not only change ideas on the fly, but also test lighting, angles and perspective without having to re-illustrate the piece for each different version. With the power of 3D sculpting, artists with a drawing background can quickly use the skills they already have to turn their tablet and stylus into stone and chisel to breathe new life into their work.
Learn more about how artists are implementing ZBrush into their 2D workflow and how you can too at our new ZBrush for Illustrators site!
