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ZBrush Creature Design: Creating Dynamic Concept Imagery for Film and Games

Name: ZBrush Creature Design: Creating Dynamic Concept Imagery for Film and Games
Author: Scott Spencer
ISBN: 9781118024331

by Scott Spencer

May 2012

Beginner to intermediate

384 pages

15h 56m

English

Sybex

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Publisher's Letter
Dedication
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Guest Artists
Introduction
Who Should Read This BookWhat You Will LearnHow to Use This Book
Chapter 1: ZBrush as a Character Design Tool
First Things First: Some Notes on ConceptualizationSome Key Design Concepts
Chapter 2: The Character Portrait: Sculpting the Alien Mystic
Designing a Character Bust: Getting StartedRefining the Character Bust

Chapter 3: The Interdimensional Traveler: A Full Body Character Design
Design JourneyEstablishing Your Basic FigureRefining the Head and FaceRevising the Shoulders and ArmsFinishing Touches and Final Passes Adaboy and the Saints of Alchemy: A Sculpted Novel by Zack Petroc
Chapter 4: Posing the Interdimensional Traveler
Considerations in PosingSetting Up the ZBrush Document
Chapter 5: Painting the Interdimensional Traveler
Adding Color and Texture with Photoshop Paintover Beyond Color: Lighting EffectsFinal Effects: Noise and Depth of FieldSpeculative Anatomy and Creature Design with Tristan Schane
Chapter 6: A Biomechanical Character
Creating the Cyborg Design
Chapter 7: Sculpting a Mermaid Character with Dynamesh
Using Visual Cues to Communicate CharacterIntroduction to Dynamesh Creating the Figure
Chapter 8: Sculpting the Forest Spirit
Using Reference as Inspirational MaterialSculpting the BodySculpting the Head ShapesRefining the FaceRefining the BodyAnalyzing the Shape Language
Chapter 9: Painting the Forest Spirit
Preparing the Model in ZBrushPreparing the Scene, Lighting, and Background in MayaCompositing and Painting in Photoshop
Chapter 10: Rendering the Enforcer
Advantages of BPREstablishing the Lighting Using LightCapCreate a Skin MaterialPaint the Skin HighlightsImage-Based LightingCreate the Look of Worn LeatherRendering MetalsCreate the Final Image
Chapter 11: ZBrush for Digital 3-D Printing
Methods of Rapid PrototypingApplications for 3-D Printing Prepare the Model for PrintingCreating a MaquetteExporting the Geometry for Print
Appendix: About the Companion DVD
What You’ll Find on the DVDSystem RequirementsUsing the DVDTroubleshootingCustomer Care
Index
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. End-User License Agreement
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