ZBrush Tutorials and Assets
Sketching With Digital Clay: Monster Head (includes .ZTL)
Tools for Quickly Sketching Monster Heads in ZBrush
Sketching with Digital Clay: A Monster Head covers Jeff McAteer's approach for quickly sketching creature heads using ZBrush. In this tutorial Jeff starts with a basic head shape. Then using the S...
An Overview of Topology in ZBrush
Using Topology Tools, Projection, The ZProject Brush and SubTool's ProjectAll
ZBrush is the industry leading application for digital sculpting, a rapidly growing sector of the 3D industry. While sculpting in ZBrush artists work with highly advanced digital clay that consist...
Rendering Zbrush Displacement Maps
Using 32 bit Displacement Maps in Mental Ray
This tutorial gives a detailed walkthrough of using ZBrush 3.1 to extract a 32bit floating point displacement map from the Stingerhead ZTool (also available on Gnomonology). Once the maps and geome...
The Making of 'Smile'
Multi-Chapter Tutorial
This 'making of' demonstration and lecture began with the decision to create a new still image and record the entire process. Using Maya, UVlayout, Zbrush and Photoshop, 'Smile' was created in eigh...
Sculpting Clothing
Learn to Sculpt Realistic Folds and Wrinkles in Clothing
In this tutorial Richard Smith demonstrates how to sculpt amazingly realistic folds in clothing using ZBrush. He covers the fundamentals of direction and weight as well as gathering reference. Th...
The Stingerhead
Creature Sculpture
This character design sculpt was created in ZBrush2.0 from base sculpting to final detailing and painting. It includes a 4k texture map and 5 levels of subdivision in the ztool. Poly count 4 milli...
Human Anatomy: Female
Chapter One: Gesture & Rhythm, Block-in, Torso, Leg, Arm
In this instructional video Zack Petroc elaborates on his approach to digital sculpting through the creation of a female character. Starting with a low resolution box mesh, the viewer watches as Za...
Human Anatomy: Female
Chapter Two: Hand, Foot, Head, Face and Hair Refinement
In this instructional video Zack Petroc elaborates on his approach to digital sculpting through the creation of a female character. Starting with a low resolution box mesh, the viewer watches as Za...
Creating Normal Maps with ZBrush and ZMapper
Multi-Chapter Tutorial
This tutorial covers an introduction to the ZBrush plugin ZMapper for use in creating normal maps for next-gen game engines. ZMapper is an extremely versatile plugin that allows the artist to creat...
Male Human Head Basemesh
OBJ with UVs
Male human head basemesh with organized topology. UVs are unwrapped. Ready to be imported into Zbrush or reorganized to match another design.
