ZBrush for 3D Artists

Our ZBrush training is designed for professionals and amateurs alike. It's a valuable companion to our other 3D courses and will help you generate work that stands out from the crowd – a crucial advantage in a competitive job market.

The course contains an in-depth look at Pixologic's ZBrush from the ground up, for ZBrush 3.5 and ZBrush 4 R1 (This courseware does not cover the new features included in R2). It covers ZBrush for use in different industry sectors workflows, a games and broadcast/film pipeline. With over two hundred videos and 28 hours of training, there is a huge amount of information covered.

You’ll get to grips with the ZBrush engine, and will become capable of importing and manipulating meshes. You also learn to Work with multiple subTools, polygroups, transpose, ZPlugins and more advanced subTool work flows. After working with existing models you will create your own base meshes with, ZSpheres, ZSketch and Shadow Box, as well as GoZ for automatic transfer and modification of meshes between ZBrush and other 3D software.

Once you’re comfortable with these techniques you will spend time learning to sculpt, including organic and hard surface objects, specialised brushes and brush settings.
After modelling, you will be introduced to a variety of ways for dealing with millions of polygons to create intricate and believable detail. Finally, you will move onto looking at displacement mapping, including the 32 bit displacement pipeline, the 16bit displacement pipeline and lighting/rendering techniques in Maya.

By the end of the course you’ll be able to create, sculpt, texture and just as importantly export these high quality models for use in a real time engine or other 3D software.

Course Breakdown

• ZBrush fundamentals
• Importing and manipulating models in ZBrush
• ZSketch and mechanical sculpting
• ZSpheres, ZSketch and organic sculpting
• Re-topology for organised meshes
• Fine detailing techniques
• Texturing techniques
• Map generation and exporting to other software

Join the community

Our Online Courses use our brilliant social eLearning platform. It’s a virtual classroom where you can access the courseware, download source files and read background notes, all through a single easy-to-use web-based app.

The platform is also your gateway to the Escape Studios social network. Talk to fellow students on your course, post your work for feedback, check out what other people have produced and generally get involved and be inspired. There’s no more exciting or effective way to learn 3D online.

Specifications

• There is no schedule to our self-directed training and you have unlimited access to all tutorials during your 12 months access
• Training material is streamed directly through our website and is not downloadable
• Maya files containing supporting scenes and assets are all downloadable
• Software is not included. UK residents can purchase student licenses for Autodesk Educational Creative Suite, ZBrush, PFTrack and more from our Technology Store. Residents of other countries can purchase student licenses directly from software manufacturers.