#Zbrush to blender how to
#Zbrush to blender pro

At this early stage it's important to check your anatomy and proportions, a good way to do it is to have a multiple cloned heads of your character to help you place the major land marks and you can see I was going for a 7.5 head female.

#Zbrush to blender pro

Hands are particularly challenging to get a good base by extrusion, so I usually make a block out of them with simple primitives and then dynamesh it, I think is the easiest and faster way to do it, I also use Sculptris Pro later in the process.ДЇor females, itвЂ™s better to keep the breasts separated from the rest of the body, this will help you not destroying it while shaping the rib cage. It takes me a couple of hours to get to a decent base, here is my workflow: I usually start with a sphere for the head and use dynamesh to extrudes and create the rest of the body, you donвЂ™t need much resolution to create the main forms, when I get something similar to a body I start to cut the head from it in order to work more easily. The rapid blockout in ZBrushДЇirst things first, I needed a body for my character and I wasnвЂ™t sure I could use an existing one for the challenge, nothing too much of a problem IвЂ™m used to create a base body from scratch. This pivot cost me 1/3 of the time budget - the problem was I had already вЂњwastedвЂќ 4-5 days and so I chose to do the concept directly in ZBrush, that at least in my mind was a way to say: letвЂ™s keep moving forward, but the worst was still to come. I was unsuccessful, this should have been ringing alarm bells for me to stop! I did what every artist will tell you: kill that idea. So I tried to make it work and I spent another couple of days on the concept. HereвЂ™s the big lesson: even if you donвЂ™t see it, but a lot of people are telling you there is a problem, normally there is a problem. The feedback was crystal clear: вЂњit doesnвЂ™t look like a cohesive protective gear, itвЂ™s more like a fashion design where the two central piece donвЂ™t even mach togetherвЂќ. This is where everything started to go sideways! As every good artist advocates, you should always ask for feedback. These are a couple of the more promising designs I came up with (made in Krita),ДЄt this stage a couple of days had passed and I relied heavily on texture bashing, the pros of this technique is that itвЂ™s easy to create something from scratch but much harder to develop or modify it. Since time was precious, I told myself: вЂњok, letвЂ™s invest the first few days coming up with a clear idea, that will help speed things upвЂќ in my mind the plan was perfect, but life always has curve balls. gulp!ДЇrom my experience the more vague a design is the more time youвЂ™ll spend in trying to figure it out while you're modeling. IвЂ™m not the strongest in design, IвЂ™m more the type of artist that likes to reinterpret or build on existing designs, but I accepted the challenge anyway.

#Zbrush to blender how to

Hi IвЂ™m Daniele Colombo, an ex-video game engine programmer and now a self taught artist and this article is about how to meet a strict deadline when everything goes wrong.ДЇirst you need some context, this piece was made for a challenge between every member of the The Extra Mile Community, and as you could imagine there was a hard deadline: 31 days to make a polished illustration, not somebodyвЂ™s else design. Thankfully, Daniel explains how he managed to get himself out of this bad situation with a recent digital illustration brief for a gaming project. That is the situation Daniele found himself in recently. But, there is the other side, those moments when your 3d illustration catches fire and you must find a way to pull through, at any cost. We all know how beautiful things are when your game development goes according to plan, you can show how skillful you are and everybody can learn the вЂњproper wayвЂќ to create and publish a game.