ZBrush: Foundation Tutorials and Assets
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 'Fume'
Multi-Chapter Tutorial
These chapters represent a technical overview of how the image 'Fume' was created using Maya, Zbrush and Photoshop. In contrast to some of my other work on Gnomonology, Fume was created without any...
Rendering Zbrush Displacement Maps
Using 16 bit Displacement Maps
This tutorial covers the following: 16 bit Displacement Maps Multi-Displacement 3 Setting Up a Mental Ray Render Using Maya's Approximation Editor Using the Imf_Copy Utility This tutoria...
Sculpting a Female Bust in ZBrush
Multi-Chapter Tutorial
This tutorial series focuses on fundamental sculpting skills in ZBrush. It covers: Blocking in Your Model, Massing Internal Forms, Sculpting Precise Form, Sculpting Facial Features, Reconst...
ZBrush: Sculpting Brushes
An In-Depth Look at ZBrush's Advanced Sculpting Brushes
While sculpting in ZBrush, artists work with highly advanced digital clay and use state of the art digital sculpting brushes. This tutorial explores ZBrush's cutting edge brush -based sculpting ...
ZBrush: Using ZSpheres
Multi-Chapter Tutorial
ZSpheres are a fast and efficient way to start your model, creature or prop directly in ZBrush. In this series, Ryan Kingslien demonstrates how to use ZSpheres, how to manage our expectations of...
ZBrush: Using Image Planes
How to use Background Reference Inside of ZBrush
Learn everything you need to begin using images as background reference inside of ZBrush now. This tutorial explains how to use image planes as SubTools as well as directly from the canvas.
ZBrush:Palette Reference
Multi-Chapter Tutorial
The ZBrush reference series is a button by button exploration of the ZBrush interface. Each palette is explored in its own tutorial and, as needed, context is given for each button to explain what...
