Indispensable ZBrush Resources. ZBrush is excellent out of the box, but I'd be lying if I said there weren't ways to make it better. The ZBrush community has put out a huge amount of content over the years that can drastically improve your sculpting workflow and efficiency.

From matcaps, to brushes, to custom user interface designs, here are fifteen indispensable ZBrush resources. First thing's first.

• Download 125 new ZBrush and 3D-Coat brushes. Each ZBrush ZBP file comes with an accompanying PSD showing the hi-res alpha image. Download the ZBrush brushes.
• DOWNLOAD CENTER ZBRUSH ARTIST :: JULIEN DESROY. To get your free download of Sculptris for Windows, please fill in the form below.
• Rock Tutorial Zbrush - Substance Painter - Cryengine - Duration: 52:44. InzombiaGame 5,620 views.

If you're using Zbrush, it's almost impossible that you don't already know about Zbrush. Central, the ZClassroom, and the Zbrush downloads center, but consider this a reminder if you've overlooked it.

The Zclassroom has improved substantially over the past six months to the point where they have some of the best Zbrush training available anywhere, free or premium. It's also well organized into bite sized chunks, so it's perfect for learning a specific tool or workflow. If you go over to Zbro's blog, you'll find a wide range of ZMT downloads available, including an excellent skin shader, a useful silhouette material, and an extensive clay set.

Welcome to Pixologic's Alpha Library. Pixologic has created a library full of amazing Alpha materials from ZBrush artists who wish to share their work with the ZBrush.

These materials feel great to sculpt on. For a long, long time, the Damian Standard was the go to seam/crack/crease brush, but Orb's is just so much cleaner. Instead of pinching the heck out of your geometry, Orb uses a perfectly formed alpha in conjunction with lazy- mouse to give a clean, well- defined line. You'll find uses for Orb Cracks in both environment and organic sculpting, but it really shines when doing stylized stuff, a la DOTA, Blizzard, Torchlight, Darksiders, etc. If you're interested in how the brush works, Orb put a tutorial up on Vimeo, or you can just download it here.

18 brushes and height maps + 3 Ztool rock meshes. 18 Zbrush Sculpted Rock Brushes. Here is my new custom rock brush and alpha set for Zbrush, 18 brushes and height/alpha maps + 3 ztool rock meshes and a mini tutorial that you can read over at. Rock Wall Alpha Sets that were sculptured by BadKing in ZBrush 4R6 before being exported as an 4096 x 4096 Alpha Maps.

SIBL provides a wide range of quality HDRs that are perfect for image based lighting, enviroment maps, and lightcap creation in Zbrush. Jump on it, and take your BPR renders to the next level. Although Zbrush provides a set of tools built in tools that are perfectly capable of accomplishing this, Xnormals are better, and the software has become the de facto choice for highpoly . Xnormal can also extract a wide variety of additional maps, including ambient occlusion, cavity, curvature, height, etc., etc., etc. If you're looking to become a game developer, you might as well download XNormal right away. The pack includes all kinds of techy bits and bobs.

This stuff is great for doing a final detail pass on a hard surface model. A couple years ago Damir Martin completed a sculpting marathon where he sculpted 5.

I've used these in a handful of projects, and they worked very well for me. Check them out right here. I'm not quite sure where these were originally posted, but they've certainly made the rounds. I personally haven't messed around with my Zbrush UI too much, but it's something I want to explore sometime soon. There are dozens of custom UI downloads available in the linked thread, so feel free to try a few and see if you find anything you like!

Selwy is amazing, so even if you don't download the brushes, it's worth taking trip to his site just to see his work. I've found that some of these are more useful than others, but there are some real gems in there. In this thread at ZBrush. Central there are over 1. I've found that intermediate or even advanced artists tend to gain more from these sorts of videos because . If you're interested in more like this, not too long ago I published a list of fantastic You. Tube channels for 3.

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