Introducing ZBrush 4 - Softcover

Keller, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470527641 ISBN 13: 9780470527641

Publisher: Sybex, 2011

Synopsis

Design remarkably realistic creatures, people, and objects using ZBrush and the new edition of this top-selling book. Professional Hollywood animator and ZBrush artist Eric Keller combines his firsthand experience with detailed, step-by-step explanations to make you feel right at home with the interface and tools. The book reinforces the core concepts of ZBrush through fun, hands-on tutorials that will help you achieve amazing results.

• Understand ZBrush's unique sculpting and painting technology
• Take a tour of ZBrush 4's innovative interface and powerful toolkit
• Work with digital clay and effectively use the full array of sculpting brushes
• Master ZSpheres for armature and ZSketching for creating meshes
• Explore exciting new tools for creating hard surface objects
• Learn how to set lighting, create materials, and render in ZBrush
• Create animated turntables within ZBrush to show off your work

The book includes a DVD with example files and models to help guide you through each lesson, as well as movies to show you the sculpting techniques used to create many of the digital sculptures.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

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Review:

Amazon Exclusive: Eric Keller’s Top 10 Cool Uses for ZBrush

1. Blendshape Facial Targets: Create blendshape facial targets for characters for animation in Maya using ZBrush - it's fast and easy!

2. Tiling Textures: Use ZBrush to create tiling textures for 3D objects.

3. Normal and Displacement Maps: Use ZBrush to create normal and displacement maps - it's superior to Maya's native difference map generator.

4. Texture Maps: Paint texture maps directly on characters and 3D objects.

5. Illustrations: Craft amazing illustrations with ZBrush's 2.5D painting tools.

6. Compositing: Render separate passes of an object from ZBrush with different materials applied for compositing in Photoshop.

7. Sculpting: Add ZApplink to ZBrushes' sculpting power with Photoshop and Painter brushes.

8. Material Capture: Design specialized materials based on objects in photographs with ZBrush's Material Capture tool.

9. Modeling: Build digital models for 3D printing and fabrication.

10. Character Creation: Shape the most amazing characters and creatures possible using ZBrush's revolutionary digital sculpting tools.

From the Back Cover:

CREATE DIGITAL SCULPTURES THAT ASTOUND

Design remarkably realistic creatures, people, and objects using ZBrush and the new edition of this top-selling book. ZBrush might seem intimidating at first, but professional Hollywood animator and ZBrush artist Eric Keller combines his firsthand experience with detailed, step-by-step explanations to make you feel right at home with the interface and tools.

The book reinforces the core concepts of ZBrush through fun, hands-on tutorials that will help you achieve amazing results. Whether you're a digital-art novice or a professional designer seeking to add ZBrush 4 to your toolkit, Introducing ZBrush 4 is the book to get you there.

• Understand ZBrush's unique sculpting and painting technology

• Take a tour of ZBrush 4's innovative interface and powerful toolkit

• Work with digital clay and effectively use the full array of sculpting brushes

• Master ZSpheres for armature and ZSketching for creating meshes

• Explore exciting new tools for creating hard surface objects

• Learn how to set lighting, create materials, and render in ZBrush

• Create animated turntables within ZBrush to show off your work

VALUABLE COMPANION DVD

The DVD includes example files and models to help guide you through each lesson, as well as movies to show you the sculpting techniques used to create many of the digital sculptures.

Render fur and fiber

Add realistic lighting and materials to your models

Master detailing and texturing techniques

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About this edition

• Publisher: Sybex
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0470527641
• ISBN 13: 9780470527641
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 520