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Hard Surface Character Creation in Zbrush

Learn How to Sculpt & Model a Hardsurface Character using Zbrush
Length 3 to 4 weeks
Effort 5 hours per week
Price $ 15
Subject Design, Art
Level Intermediate
Languages English
Video Transcripts None

Instructor Info

Pierre Rogersis a freelance artist with years of experience in hardsurface character design. When he is not in a 3d program creating unique and amazing hardsurface artwork, he is having fun making money hand painting bag toss boards. As a young child, he wanted to be a chef, but then got into video games and adopted his cousins’ interests in comics and drawing. Most of his 3D/CG work has been featured in courses, lesson articles and reviews he had made for 3D Creative Magazine, 3D Artist Magazine, CGTuts+, Digital Tutors and Pluralsight. The advice he gives artists that are just starting out and want to make it in the 3d industry is to continue to learn and challenge yourself. He believes in hardcore studying of the art fundamentals, but also understands the importance of taking breaks, watching a movie, hanging with friends because he believes that art imitates life and so one must do some ‘living’ between art projects for the sake of one’s art. A very interesting fact about Pierre is he still has his pet turtle from 7th grade so the turtle is over 22 years old now!

Course Info

In this course, we will explore hard surface character creation with Zbrush. The material covered can be used within workflow for 3D print, concept art, as well as map generation for games and animation assets. Throughout the journey, we will sculpt, slice, and polish over 30 million polygons exploring many new and old techniques and features. Some of the topics covered are various brushes and tools essential to hardsurface sculpting, rebuilding dynamesh models into subdivision levels, applying and editing materials, posing, light and rendering, as well as photoshop render compositing. By the end of the course, you should have the skills to create a professional looking hardsurface character to add to your portfolio.

Who this course is for:
  • Anyone who wants to learn how to create clean hard surface objects and characters in Zbrush
  • Anyone who would like to become better at character creation

What you'll learn

  • Learn essential tools and brushes for hardsurface sculpting

  • Properly apply and edit materials to match the character's style

  • Slice and polish clean looking surface edges

  • Posing, lighting, and rendering in Zbrush

  • Photoshop render compositing

  • Create professional looking hardsurface characters for your portfolio

  • Learn essential tools and brushes for hardsurface sculpting

  • Properly apply and edit materials to match the character's style

  • Slice and polish clean looking surface edges

  • Posing, lighting, and rendering in Zbrush

  • Photoshop render compositing

  • Create professional looking hardsurface characters for your portfolio

Course syllabus

Introduction Interface, Tools and Techniques Sculpting and Modeling the Character Pose, Light, Render & Composite

Meet the instructors

Victory3D LLC

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Our mission is to contribute to making dream jobs a reality so artists can live the life that they are meant to live using their gifts to entertain, to create smiles, to send a message and most importantly to inspire others in a global scale.

We provide students with affordable and substantial tutorials that are easy to understand and produce results. We believe that industry experience, effective teaching, and student interaction are the key ingredients for providing a high quality learning system. With Victory3D, you will find a collection of affordable courses made by artists with experience working in Ubisoft, Blizzard, Gameloft, MPC, Double Negative and many more!