Making a sofa in zbrush

zbrush_newbie

Hi All

I`m just trying out zbrush 4 and i am wanting to build a sofa similar to the one picture below.
Just wondering what would be the best way to create the depressions where the buttons are. Was thinking of modelling the depressions in maya and then importing the model into zbrush and doing the creases by hand. But wondered if there is a more automated way of doing it? Perhaps create an alpha stamp and use lazymouse to create the depressions in set intervals? is that possible?

Thanks in advance

ParoXum

The way I would go about it would be to sculpt one of the depression and render an alpha from it that I can dragrect around or something. then add Folds later, maybe using the same technique, rotating the alpha to break repetition.

zbrush_newbie

ParoXum wrote: »

The way I would go about it would be to sculpt one of the depression and render an alpha from it that I can dragrect around or something. then add Folds later, maybe using the same technique, rotating the alpha to break repetition.

Thanks. I actually just discovered the alpha tiling method with dragrect after I posted but was using some photo souce for the depression which probably isnt as good as quality as rendering.

Could you quickly explain how I render out the modelled depression to an alpha?

Thanks alot

ParoXum

In Alpha menu > Grabdoc will make an alpha from your document/sculpt.

zbrush_newbie

Great, thanks