Spencer ZBrush Creature Design

Creating Dynamic Concept Imagery for Film and Games
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-23626-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten, E-Book

Zero in on the most cutting-edge trend in creature design forfilm and games: ZBrush!
ZBrush allows you to develop a creature for film and games inrealistic, 3D format. With this book, you will learn how to createa unique creature from start to finish and search for and repairany foreseeable problems. Clear instructions guide you throughusing Photoshop in combination with ZBrush to finely render acreature so you can see how it will appear on screen. ExperiencedZBrush author and designer Scott Spencer shows you how to startwith your concept in ZBrush as a preliminary digital model and thenfurther refine it in Photoshop in order to fabricate ahyperrealistic image.
* Guides you through artistic concepts to visualize yourcreature
* Walks you through the process of conceptualizing a creature inZBrush
* Details techniques for using Photoshop to refine yourdesign
* Encourages you to use ZBrush as a sculpting and designing tooland then use Photoshop as a painting and finishing tool
ZBrush Creature Design helps you bring your creatureconcepts to life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spencer, Scott

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction xvii
Chapter 1 ZBrush as a Character Design Tool 1
Chapter 2 The Character Portrait: Sculpting the Alien Mystic 27
Chapter 3 The Interdimensional Traveler: A Full Body Character Design 53
Chapter 4 Posing the Interdimensional Traveler 89
Chapter 5 Painting the Interdimensional Traveler 111
Chapter 6 A Biomechanical Character 147
Chapter 7 Sculpting a Mermaid Character with Dynamesh 175
Chapter 8 Sculpting the Forest Spirit 203
Chapter 9 Painting the Forest Spirit 243
Chapter 10 Rendering the Enforcer 285
Chapter 11 ZBrush for Digital 3-D Printing 311
Appendix About the Companion DVD 341
Index 345

Über Autor(innen)

Scott Spencer has worked as a character designer and sculptor at The Weta Workshop in Wellington, New Zealand, since 2009, most recently on The Hobbit. He has taught ZBrush digital sculpting at Gnomon since 2005 and was previously an artist at Gentle Giant Studios. His credits include films such as Alice in Wonderland, the game Golden Axe for Sega, and dozens of other projects. He is the author of ZBrush Character Creation and ZBrush Digital Sculpting Human Anatomy.