Zbrush sculpting start?

Darth_Biomech

I started to look into zbrush sculpting, but I feel like my lack of anatomical knowledge could impact my abilities.

I know there is a ton of specialized tutorials for zBrush, that you follow step-by-step creation of a model with artist with his comments.
But is there any kind of base general tutorials, which covers basics of anatomy, steps of learning it, most common errors of a newbies, useful practice subjects, tips on general detailing of sculpts, stuff like that? I'd be thankful.

Brian "Panda" Choi

Technical ZBrush usage and Anatomical knowledge, from my experience, is horrendously separated. It's very difficult to find both at the same time. It's the case for anatomy as well that it is still specialized.

What do you want to prioritize:

1) How to use Zbrush because this looks nothing like Maya/3dsMax/Modo/etc.

2) How to draw / sculpt the human body?

Darth_Biomech

Yea, yea, I have expirience with the programm, so I need more of a sculpt learning. Not just only human body though - general ways too.

Brian "Panda" Choi

Well, organic tends to be self explanatory minus any noise surface ninja work, as far as I know.

So . . . what do you want to sculpt exacly if not only humanoid characters? Right now it's still vague what we should recommend. Because general Zbrush sculpting changes a LOT based on the subject matter, and even then, I suspect a lot of learning has little to do with the ZBrush program as it does the design theory that goes into what you're working on.

Darth_Biomech

Well, yes it maybe wise for now to stick with humans, as character I am working on currently is antropomorfic anyway.

Brian "Panda" Choi

I found these 2 videos extraordinarily helpful with some esoteric ZBrush knowledge, and a workflow method, for making characters through ZBrush when was trying to really get a handle on it initially.

This one is Character Art overall: A Hat, clothes, belt, and funky body shapes.

http://eat3d.com/zbrush4_character

This one is about Hard Surface Techniques in Zbrush:

http://eat3d.com/zbrush_hardsurface2

Darth_Biomech

Thanks) But just in case, maybe you can advice something for really beginners of the sculpting? Like, some sort of list "first remember all latin names of every muscle, then sculpt 50 busts, then some more, then practice this for 50 years, then become Michelangelo", or something like this?

lotet

I dont think there is a video for that.
that type of stuff isnt something you really learn from a video, but rather actually DO.

also, you can just get an anatomy book and do that yourself, you even just whrote a step by step guide yourself lol xD

Brian "Panda" Choi

Darth, what you're describing is the discipline of figure drawing. If you're not familiar with confidently drawing the whole human body as a whole, you're going to have a challenging time trying to integrate technical anatomical knowledge into artistic finesse.

Research and study figure drawing first. I recommend understanding what the word "gesture" means in regards to that.

Darth_Biomech

Well, okay, thanks)

SpaceRogue

thers a few options tho JadeEyePanda is spot on the subject.


King has a website dedicated to sculptural anatomy and a youtube account with free stuff
https://www.youtube.com/user/rkingslien


or these guys, I absolutely love their new book !
https://www.anatomy4sculptors.com/


But drawing tutorials can help as well, Proko might be of help
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClM2LuQ1q5WEc23462tQzBg


Good luck with your journey into anatomy ^^

flat-D

For bust sculpting, I realy like the video by Rod Seffen: Mudbox Head Sculpting Techniques.

Eat3D Mudbox Head Sculpting Part 1 of 2
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4VyMLV7jGM[/ame]

Eat3D Mudbox Head Sculpting Part 2 of 2
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr9sS48lVrE[/ame]

Mudbox Head Sculpting Techniques
http://eat3d.com/free/mudbox_head

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I'd say, just look for timelapse sculpting vids on youtube, vimeo, etc. There's many out there. The ones you like, study them.

I really enjoy watching sculpting timelapse vids. You can learn from them on so many levels. Tools-Anatomy-Creative Flow-etc