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由Digital Tutors 公司最新出品的Digital Tutors Creative Development: Advanced Character Modeling in ZBrush and Photoshop 教程，Zbrush 4.0 和 PS高級角色建模教程。2011年9月1號釋放。

教程所使用的軟件：Zbrush 4.0, Photoshop



ZBrush 是一個數字雕刻和繪畫軟件，它以強大的功能和直觀的工作流程徹底改變了整個三維行業。在一個簡潔的界面中，ZBrush 為當代數字藝術家提供了世界上最先進的工具。以實用的思路開發出的功能組合，在激發藝術家創作力的同時，ZBrush 產生了一種用戶感受，在操作時會感到非常的順暢。ZBrush 能夠雕刻高達 10 億多邊形的模型，所以說限制只取決于的藝術家自身的想象力。



Photoshop CS5是由Adobe公司出品，公司英文全稱是Adobe Systems Inc，始創于 1982 年，是廣告、印刷、出版和Web領域首屈一指的圖形設計、出版和成像軟件設計公司，同時也是世界上第二大桌面軟件公司。公司為圖形設計人員、專業出版人員、文檔處理機構和Web設計人員，以及商業用戶和消費者提供了首屈一指的軟件。 使用 Adobe 的軟件，用戶可以設計、出版和制作具有精彩視覺效果的圖像和文件。



A tutorial for a creating a character maquette entirely in ZBrush and combining render passes in Adobe Photoshop

The focus of this tutorial will be the creation of the character maquette entirely within ZBrush, with goal of creating a great looking rendered still as an and product. It is intended as an overall introduction to many of the tools within ZBrush which make the creation and output of this kind of illustration possible. The Image you see above was sculpted, textured and rendered in a single 9 hour day using these techniques.





教程相關內容如下：

1. Introduction and Project Overview
2. Base Mesh Creation and Refinement
3. Quick mesh reshaping and rough detailing
4. Using layers to change the base shape
5. Using layers to blend and refine the final basic mesh
6. Retopologizing the mesh
7. UV Master introduction, tips and tricks
8. Optimizing UV space
9. Masking areas of the model
10. Finding the natural anatomical flow of details
11. Fine lines and wrinkles, skin imperfections, pores
12. Texture painting techniques with polypaint
13. Underpainting the skin textures and layer blending
14. Posing the finished maquette
15. Quick GI lighting setups for rendering
16. Using BPR to render elements for compositing
17. Basic compositing effects in Photoshop
18. Painting details and color effects to avoid re-renders
19. Quick effects techniques in Photoshop