Learn Zbrush With This Beginners Compendium Online Course

Complete Beginners Guide to all Major Features of Pixelogics Zbrush

What you'll learn
Students will have the ability to undertake Intermediate to advanced tutorials at the end of this course
By the end of the course you will understand Zbrush and be able to confidently create your own masterpieces
Requirements
You should have a copy of Zbrush R4 or above to take this course
Photoshop would be handy but not essential, we use Photoshop for the compositing of our final image
Description
Learn Pixelogics ZBrush from scratch with this nicely paced courseDo you want to learn ZBrush? Not sure what course to choose?? Well fear not this is PERFECT for you this course is indepth and builds upon learnt topics!During this course I will show you all the major features and not so majors ones, all with one purpose to get you understanding and able to move on to more complex projects on your own or with another course!What will we learn?Opening and exporting tools, views and documents to and from ZBrushLearn Navigation and the User InterfaceCreating and modifying basic objects inside ZBrushUnderstanding Subdivitions and how dynamesh and help in the creation processLearn to do mesh extractions and detail projectionsHow the brushes work lots of handy tips along the wayMaking ZBrush truely your own with custom configurationsA full project using the skills you have been usingLearn to mask, smooth, rotate, Move and scale subtools in ZBrushLearn to apply paint and materials to your creations (during this course I will show you a special technique for creating great organic skin)Learn how to light and renders your creationsWe also look at how to set custom views and custom document sizesBONUSAs a special bonus I have included two additional lecturesHow to create hair using Fibre MeshHow to re pose your creations using T-PoseI feel this is the most comprehensive beginners guide to Zbrush there is, and remember I am here for you every step of the way!Get creating masterpieces today with the fantastic ZBrush!!

Overview

Section 1: Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Introduction to the course

Lecture 1 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Promotional

Lecture 2 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Course Introduction

Lecture 3 Download

Section 2: Beginners Guide to ZBrush - The Basics explained

Lecture 4 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - ZBrush interface and loading basic tools

Lecture 5 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Navigating and finding your way around ZBrush

Lecture 6 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - What are subdivision levels?

Lecture 7 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Brushes and Lazymouse

Lecture 8 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Dynamesh makes adding Geometry easy!

Lecture 9 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Masking and Smoothing your sculpts

Lecture 10 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Undoing and Inverting

Lecture 11 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Save and Export our creations

Lecture 12 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Creating the base mesh in ZBrush

Lecture 13 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Adding more detail into our base mesh

Section 3: Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Full Project lets use what we learnt and more!

Lecture 14 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Adding a Subtool

Lecture 15 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Creating a Custom Interface

Lecture 16 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Build up details

Lecture 17 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Further mesh refinement and the eyes

Lecture 18 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Fixing areas and detailing

Lecture 19 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Using masking and rotate to re-pose the character

Lecture 20 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Creating a low res mesh from high

Lecture 21 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Extractions for creation of new subtools

Lecture 22 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Getting ready for high frequency details

Lecture 23 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Controling detail with blend layers

Lecture 24 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Baking Layers

Lecture 25 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Nothing is symetrical

Section 4: Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Colouring and adding textures

Lecture 26 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Organic skin paint effect

Lecture 27 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Finishing with the skin

Lecture 28 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Polypainting the rest of the sub tools

Lecture 29 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Texturing with Spotlight

Lecture 30 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - UV Unwrapping

Lecture 31 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Mesh optimisation

Section 5: Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Lighting and Final Rendering

Lecture 32 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Light setup and document size

Lecture 33 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Final Render!

Section 6: Beginners Guide to ZBrush - BONUS LECTURES

Lecture 34 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - Hair using fibremesh

Lecture 35 Beginners Guide to ZBrush - TPose

Lecture 36 BONUS LECTURE - HELP AND ADVICE

This is a beginners course however intermediates might find it of use,This course would be perfect for students looking to explore 3D and ZBrush