Jacket Advice for ZBrush artist

Space76Ghost

Hi Everyone,

Newbie here at Polycount. I have been a ZBrush user and Artist for sometime. A few years but still a novice at it. I know pretty much the basics and maybe a step beyond a novice. ZBrushCentral Forums are lacking response. Thought I would come here for advice how I could go about creating a jacket from scratch for my character? I know about mesh extract. I see some tutorials but none show you from scratch their method or technique. I am mostly having trouble coming up with the flaps. If I use mesh extract and merge a flap with my jacket it doesn't look blended in nicely. When I go to sculpt the flap to go around the neck like most do, it doesn't look right to me. I am looking for ideas, techniques, methods or suggestions welcome! Thank you and glad to be here.

Matt

musashidan

Welcome to the forums, Matt. One way to do it would be to Zremesh your extract(this will give you an edgeloop around the neck opening) to a low polycount, add some thickness with qmesh (zmodeler brush) and extrude out the collar, remodel/tweak the new geo. This will also result in new polygroups that you can utilise to mask out the rest of the jacket while you work on the collar.

Space76Ghost

Nice! I will give it a try! thank you

Space76Ghost

Space76Ghost

I have to work on it more to tweak exactly what I want. I understood the method! Thank you!