Zbrush Course - Creating Game Of Thrones Style Panel Art

Learn how to model hardsurface and organic scultping in ZBrush with this Game of Thrones inspired course

What you'll learn
Be able to work with Zbrush more confidently
Understand how to create base meshes in Zbrush
Learn how to use the hardsurface tools in ZBrush
Have a greater knowledge of Subdivision and Dynamesh
Be able to texture inside ZBrush
Understand the basics of rendering and output from ZBrush
Understand Alphas and there many uses
Requirements
Some knowledge of Zbrush would be good but not essential
I Use Photoshop quite a lot in this course so it would be good for you to have this
Not essential but I do use Maya for the first section although I also give you the files for ZBrush
I use Zbrush 4 r6 during this course other versions might have features in different areas of the Interface
Description
The Game of Thrones is an epic series with the launch of series 7, I decided I would do a series of courses based on a Game of Thrones theme! this ZBrush course will be packed with features and techniques.
"This course cover a lot of material I have tried to design the course so that at each stage you are learning a new or adding to a technique for this reason it could well be worth watching the whole course first and then choose your technique for your particular need!"
The Game of Thrones uses a lot of CGI so it is a great carrier to base my ZBrush courses on, in this course I will show you my method for creating a Game of Thrones style wooded door, the door will be highly detailed and it will give me the chance to show you a ton of techniques, on this journey we will learn the following:
Reference GatheringCreating a Base mesh and UV Layout in MayaCreating a base mesh in ZBrushUsing Hardsurface BrushesMasking and AlphasMesh Insert and Creating Alphas from SubtoolsDeformations and Initialize settingsDynamesh and SubdivisionCustom interface and common brushesSpotlight and polypaintingSplitting Subtools and TransposingOutput and compositeZSpheres and Rigging techniques
This course is for anyone wanting to develop there skills in ZBrush and give you insight to the many techniques that can be used, the course should give you an arsenal of extra knowledge which you can adapt to your particular needs!
Have fun creating amazing Game of Thrones style panel art inside the amazing ZBrush!Please note ZBrush 4 r6 is used for this course!!!

Overview

Section 1: Creating a Game of Thrones Style Panel Design - Introduction

Lecture 1 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - The Course Trailer

Lecture 2 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Welcome

Lecture 3 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Reference

Lecture 4 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - DOWNLOADS

Section 2: Creating a Game of Thrones Style Panel Design - First Panels

Lecture 5 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - External Base Mesh

Lecture 6 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Importance of Geometry in ZBrush

Lecture 7 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Comparing Geometry at Sub Divisions

Lecture 8 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Basemesh in ZBrush

Lecture 9 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Testing the reimported models

Lecture 10 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Preparing the Door

Lecture 11 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Setting up the Texture

Lecture 12 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Different effects in Photoshop

Lecture 13 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - The First Panel

Lecture 14 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - ZBrush panel 1

Lecture 15 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Using images for Alphas

Lecture 16 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Part 2 Images for Alphas

Lecture 17 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Building up deatils intro

Lecture 18 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Applying the masks

Lecture 19 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Adding more details

Lecture 20 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Multiple overlaying in ZBrush

Lecture 21 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Creating a brush from an Alpha

Lecture 22 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Creating an alpha from a sculpt

Lecture 23 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Creating an insert mesh

Section 3: Creating a Game of Thrones Style Panel Design - A New Project

Lecture 24 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Introduction to the new project

Lecture 25 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Sketching out our design in Photosho

Lecture 26 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - The final mocked up design

Lecture 27 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Creating the base Door frame

Lecture 28 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Creating the inner frame

Lecture 29 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Stretching and maintaining even geo

Lecture 30 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Creating our curcular pieces

Lecture 31 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Creating the corner circles

Lecture 32 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Mirror and weld

Lecture 33 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - ZSphere rigging technique

Lecture 34 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - The power of Arrays

Lecture 35 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Creating some nice emblishments

Lecture 36 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Block array

Lecture 37 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Alpha grid

Lecture 38 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Adding creases and edgeloops

Lecture 39 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Finishing the small circles

Lecture 40 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Controlling smooth

Lecture 41 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Adding a motif

Lecture 42 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Finishing the array

Lecture 43 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Methods for Panel detailing

Lecture 44 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Methods for scultping

Lecture 45 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - ZSheres part 1

Lecture 46 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - ZSpheres part 2

Lecture 47 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Dynamesh our tree part 1

Lecture 48 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Dynamesh our tree part 2

Lecture 49 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Grabbing a ZDepth from the tree

Lecture 50 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Applying the tree alpha

Lecture 51 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Final tree

Lecture 52 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Adding leaves

Lecture 53 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Split the grid

Lecture 54 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Playing around

Lecture 55 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Demon Head part 1

Lecture 56 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Demon Head part 2

Lecture 57 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Demon Head part 3

Lecture 58 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Background for demon

Lecture 59 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Top Circles

Lecture 60 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Mesh Extraction

Lecture 61 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Polishing

Lecture 62 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Finished model

Lecture 63 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - ZBrush texture basics

Lecture 64 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Creating the wood

Lecture 65 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Cavity masking

Lecture 66 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Final texturing

Lecture 67 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - The render

Lecture 68 ZBrush Creating Game of Thrones Panel Art - Composite in photoshop

Section 4: STUDENT HELP FILES

Lecture 69 BONUS LECTURE - HELP AND ADVICE

Anyone who wants to learn ZBrush,Beginners to Advanced users will enjoy this course