Sculpting muscles with masks in Zbrush 3

[gizmo69ish]

Thats shite M8 !!

[Melazee01]

I never thought of using a mask for that, I was sculpting them normally :O (I'm new to Zbrush).

[MrXthemusic2]

why does he have a baby butt ?

[doggzilla1]

Admit it, youre all checking out his ass

[abaady48]

good one

[TheAlexAccount]

fail

[PFplusW]

Good God, where's his penis??

[Franciumflourine]

penis missing

[daedelusxxxhelios]

what a fantastic technique

[picaticatara]

Slap a dick on him please.

[verdaderoretrato]

What the hell he don't iven have a....

[AnSiB]

This wasn't much of a tutorial. You didn't explain the tools or nothing.

[The360david]

U gotta have skills to do dat

[policecpd]

you are a jackass

[graknosh]

his ass looks a little wierd xD

[MBlack475]

What sculpting brush did you use? Displace, inflat, standard, what??

[venizelosjr]

can someone tell me what tools did he use at the video and what is the black symmetry tool that he's using in order t draw the muscles...i'm a new one at this programme..so any help would be great! :D

[andollio1337]

thats not at all what muscles look like, specially not the anatom... l2p noob

[Illustratos]

horrible anatomy.

[TuPP3]

So that is cabable to do bump maps real time like that?

That would be very useful, but sculpting model is just waste of time.

Hundreds of thousands polygons containing model can't really be used apart from pre-rendered animations

[skarpunin]

@TuPP3 well actually they can be used anywhere even in the games, all you need to do is to export a low rez model - 1000 - 10000 polys and save out a normal map, which is like a bump map but 16 bit and reacts to the lights, or sometimes displacement maps, in the game industry they use both

[ZanQdo]

@TuPP3 one word: retopo+normalmap

[Nouseeker]

oooh, so thats what my muscles look like ;D

[bigkingsha]

maybe it's one of those rubber psuedo-muscle suits

[shakoror]

He is just showing you the best way to layout the overall form. I don't think he claimed to be an anatomy expert. Thnks for the tips!

[pelescu17]

set

[aceofspades02]

technique: A

anatomy: F

[HeshGames]

@aceofspades02 No, the anatomy of the muscles is incorrect. he didn't mean to make all the individual muscles etc... and look realistic. Just what a well toned person would look like

[ChriszBboy]

sick video

[Untilia]

awsome .. :3

[livedandletdie]

you guys need anatomy lessons

[livedandletdie]

it ain't a muscle idiot.

[cradal4e]

U forgot the penis my friend xD

[STORYOFSHIRTLESS]

if only it were that easy in real life

[valek27]

lol

[gabrieljb]

true that

[bilarion]

Thank you. The video was very helpful.

[hazonku]

I define muscle the same way but I do a lot of mask inverting along with my sculpting & smoothing.

[Gauntlets]

Gah! I kinda hate Z brush right now. Mainly due 2 I sucked at it my first time.

[jfesmire]

Like any program, zBrush has a learning curve. Pixologic has a series of excellent tutorials though that might help you out.

[conodelamadreputa]

Really nice tutorial, it gives me a ton of ideas. You need to study the muscle positions a little though, i'm a body artist since a lot of years, I can help you out wiht that. Thank you so much 4 sharing this knowledge!

[maykecharles]

hello, you have to send me the code's activation zbrush 3.1, because my password does not generate the correct password

[SheilaLevine1]

You never see fat Zbrush models. They're always lean. I'd like to see someone do some realistic looking Rubenesque forms, female and male.

But this tutorial is definitely a great method for quickly popping out skeletal muscles. Only the artist should use an accurate visual anatomical reference.

Thanks!

[yuki97thomas]

dont know what it is but nice...

[FLGoldenFL]

some people got 8 abs :|

[dzjai]

nice work, definately given me a better insight into how to work in zbrush :D thanks ^^

[Plague6669]

what software is this and where can I get it

[jzone2006]

It's Zbrush... Google it.

[DeacanSharp]

got lag?

[walikai]

someone needs some ram..

[sbosha1]

how do you make the muscles rise, and how do you smooth the edges so it's not blocky?

[1977Simpson]

I'm guessing that after you've drawn out the mask, you would select the inflate brush. Mess about with the Zintensity and brush size and draw the inflations in each area.

Then, when you've filled all the muscle areas, clear the mask and use the smooth brush, again changing the Zintensity and brush sizes.

The 'Move' brush is also good for pulling areas around.

Remember to have your symmetry enabled by hitting 'X'.

Move, Inflate and Smooth should be your best friends.

[jakbam]

This is a default tool and comes without a penis and i really wouldn't want to sculpt one.

[GlasgowLadXD]

He doesnt have a cock

[slamminx]

You want cack? U see cack at 4:29 xD

[GlasgowLadXD]

lmfao trust you to find it

[cmheiple]

He looks like chocolate and I want to eat him.

[ctdrgn]

This is rather bad. No offence, mate. After you made the initial contour with the mask, you decided to go waaaay too harsh on the edges with a overdone smoothing. It took away all the detail and left a noobish mesh no one would spend more than 5 seconds looking at.

[byggarebob123]

You forgot the penis XD

[tourned5]

@ 3:55 how do you clean up the resolution in certain areas?

[Kiyamlol]

is vanarts a good school?

i am doing 3d at qantm

[skarpunin]

I did not use a wacom tablet for this tut, even though I do recommend it, but for a good quality sculpture you would need at least a4 or a3 tablet :)

[FrixFrixX]

milion thank you! :)

[llK1NGp1Nll]

heres a cool way to sculpt the muscles without haveing to smooth it out, after u mask, keep holding down ctrl + click ON YOUR MESH and it will smooth the MASK out instead of pulling it out, this should save you some time. :)

[JohnnyKTheMan]

the first part reminded me of spiderman lol

[unionofonion]

good way to learn how to draw anime character.

[snyper50]

small ass ^^ very good

[mcdraycon]

graphics tablet?

[mauro00013]

you're awesome, but why u always zoom his ass?

[lpfann]

lol

[morde11]

lol =p

[RiVvenGuard]

its zbrushes default zoom..its not his fault lol..

[bleeh552]

lmao xD

[shletten]

Well this is pretty awesome and useful, thank you much I now know Zbrush pretty well but without any freaking tips you're nowhere good. Thanks again.

[NeoShinobiX]

your a good drawer

[sudowoodonumbers]

Fucking awesome. I hope there aren't limits on the deformers and builders.

[T2024]

nice comp lag

[mcdraycon]

hey, dont diss lag man

[sudowoodonumbers]

THIS IS TOO COMPLICATED where do i take classes for this at

[eyesphere]

Check the Pixologic website (search for ZBrush online) they have links to tutorials, and even classes I think. Unless you were being sarcastic lol

[dontleaveyet]

for some reason this really turns me on lol.

[Bluehair2themax]

So cool.

[SeriousIlya]

Cool

[IMattNovakI]

Lol ya i did that like 3 months after i started zbrush, by far one of the best ways to get good muscle base.

[paulita212121]

Z Carrara dosn´t sound le possible... you can export OBJ if thats any help...

[charliec201]

anyone know if zbrush files can be imported into carrara?

[adangelo72594]

how did you make the mask into solid?

[Daisygurl33]

okay how long did it take you to learn that would you need school cuz I wanna try that.

[deluxedookie]

lots of trial & error my firend school can help but learning your self just a good.

[Daisygurl33]

ty :)

[903harman]

you dont need school to use it dumbass!!!you can download it! fucking ,god! download it and use the software!its not that hard to use!

[fakebastard]

:O!!!

omg

actually i was thinking the same thing too, he doesnt have one :/

[SRCP]

Are you a human or a monkey, if you are human then god damn you are so fucking stupid.

[serloinz]

nice :) who cares if its not anatomically (ppl always go on about that) your lesson isnt about where the muscles r in a body.. its about the masking technique to bring out features non ? lol

[Carmelcrazzy]

TOO LONG!

[skarpunin]

oh well, better be safe than sorry :P

[sixpackdragon]

very nice zbrush looks like alot of fun compared to most modelers out there. Btw you should see some anatomy books because alot of them you put are incorrect, however still nice model. Can you make a model from scratch or you have to work off of presets? Please send me a youtube message anytime and fill me in on this product :)

[skarpunin]

you can use presets and you can also create your own models from scratch, for more info on the product, feel free to visit pixologic website: zbrush[.]com

[itsover3]

anyway you can give me a link or anything to the site you got the model from?

[skarpunin]

honestly it's been ages, but try googling basehuman.zip

[yzorg]

@itsover3

actually there are plenty of free obj figures around...

check turbosquid . com

[charliec201]

hey im getting zbrush but i was wondering if the model i see in this video is pre-made with it ya know? did u have to make that red model your working on your self or was it already made for you with the program?

[skarpunin]

The model itself I found on the internet, it is a basix human body model made in 3ds max, but there are a few premade models in Zbrush, 2 human male bodies, elephant a male head and a dog :)

[Ambeone]

just some creative critisism study some more anatomy since most muscles you added dont exist alot of the muscles are bigger meaning fewermuscles

but sure we have alot though

[SlimyCracker]

What kinda marker tool did you use to do this technique?

[skarpunin]

I've used a Zbrush masking tool

[EggYolk]

wow, very interesting yet powerful tool. Blenders scuplt section could really use that.

[skarpunin]

you should definitely try Zbrush, this software is very intuitive and easy to use, but yet very powerful :)

[dilibau]

can you indicate where that feature is? would be very helpful thanks and cheers

[skarpunin]

this feature is located under "Movie" menu on top in ZB3, by the way got myself camtasia last night, pretty cool soft, thanks for the tip :)

[dilibau]

what program did you use for the screen recording? camtasia?

[skarpunin]

No Zbrush got an internal recorder with many different functions + it saves all of the files in Quicktime format :)

[skarpunin]

omg, I have removed another post by accident :(, those bloody "reply" and "remove" buttons are too close to each other, sorry

[skarpunin]

I know, but when you do it all through deformation, It is very difficult to control which muscles come out more or less, It doesnt seem to be a problem with an un posed character, but let's say the character is set to some pose and that means that some muscles are more stressed, while others are not and then I reckon it is better do work with them manually :) but thanks for your suggestion, I've used inflate in the deformation menu when working with wrinkles :)

[sussegado]

cool. good time lapse. =]

[skarpunin]

thanks :)

[wazburg]

This is the longest video i have ever seen on youtube!

[skarpunin]

ahahah, I know, youtube states that a video should not go for more than 10 minutes, but because my file was 10mb large instead of 100 I've managed to upload 16 minutes :)

[Fenixyy]

realy good idea to drwar musculs on it ^_^ i like it

[skarpunin]

thanks, I am glad that you like it, the idea is not original, as this technique was used by many ppl to draw wrinkles, so my idea was to try and to apply this technique to muscles

[skarpunin]

thanks :)

[theQiwiMan]

man-o-MAN i need ZB3!! cool vid! :-)

[greatorderofchaos]

neatly done

how to you hide the object keeping previous hidden parts?

[skarpunin]

thanks all you do is click ctrl+shift and while holding it, drag your mouse around the area (it would be a green rectangle) that you want to keep visible, but if you want to hide something, keep the rest visible click ctrl+shift but release shift while holding ctrl and drag a red rectangle around the area that you want to hide, to unhide all just hold ctrl+shit and click anywhere outside the mesh :)

[mmmkay23]

TiNY BaLLs LoL

[skarpunin]

he doesn't have any :P lol

[skarpunin]

sorry 3dean, instead of reply putton I've clicked remove by accident, I saw your spartan mesh in zbcentral, very nice start, for the reference I've used one of the images that I've found in google

[Iko909]

ahh seriosly u need to teach me on making the model!

[etlatjcje]

save the 3dsmax file as an .img or something, then you can import it as a tool in zbrush

[nevermindjoker]

.img? what are you?

[SlurkSlisker]

Whoa, Awesome technique, Dude! I'm using 3dsmax but I always had some major issues with "modeling a face", so today I decided to get ZBrush. I acquired ZB3 and it looks great, tried it out and it's truly fascinating! Although, I have no idea how to Export a mesh from 3Ds and then Import it to ZB3. Could you tell me, please? =)

[skarpunin]

I think you need to export your mesh as a Wavefront object in order to sculpt it in Zbrush, also you might want to check out zbrush[dot]info this is their learning site with a tutorials and documentation for Zbrush 3

[SlurkSlisker]

Thanks =) This site looks very helpful to me. Thanks Again

[skarpunin]

no worries, have fun :)

[Taurus702B]

Super cool. I am new to 3-D animation, heh I use LightWave, and I never heard of this before. I know about adding bumps to a texture but using a tool to make them on the object is amazing.

[skarpunin]

oh, you should definitely try Zbrush, you can even use it as an addition to Lightwave, all you do is, you build a base mesh in lightwave, bring it into Zbrush, sculpt all of the details and export it as a normal map. this software is widely used in the movie and game industry :), very easy and intuitive to use and also fun :)

[calinguy10]

very cool technique !

[skarpunin]

thanks :), I just figured, if masking works for wrinkles, I might as well try it with muscles :)