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西班牙| 2011年9月 – ZBrush4R2现在推出！！ THE NEXT STEP IN DIGITAL ART Pixologic is back at it again with the awesome ZBrush 4R2! With incredible new features like DynaMesh, Curve Mode, HDRI Rendering, LightCap and Insert Brushes to name a few, you'll have so much fun you won't want to put it down! Go ahead and indulge yourself, stay up late creating fantastic art for days! "ZBrush 4R2 represents everything I had always wanted from digital sculpting. Its new features, DynaMesh, the Insert Brushes, and the new Curve Brushes unlock an artist's imagination, and remove the polygon chains we have worn for far too long. Sculpting today has reached a new threshold." - Ryan Kingslien ZBrush Workshops Check out all the great new features in Z4R2 at Pixologic.com to find out what all the fuss is about! Visit the ZBrush Gallery and ZBrushCentral to see the amazing artwork created by the Z4R2 beta testing team. |
| September, 2011 – ZBrush 4R2 Upgrade Preview We are thrilled to be so close to the next major update for ZBrush: ZBrush 4R2! ZBrush 4R2 is packed with new and exciting features, additions and changes designed to fit your needs and the way you work. While the release itself is still a few days away, we wanted to help you prepare now by providing the following info to explain exactly how the upgrade will be done. View ZBrush 4R2 Upgrade Preview HERE. |
| September, 2011 – Sculptris wins New Application of the Year in 3D World Magazine International CG Awards We are delighted that Sculptris was voted the No.1 'New Application of the Year' by an expert panel and the community in the 3D World Magazine International CG Awards! More info at www.3dworldmag.com. "This award recognizes the best new asset-creation applications that have been released over the past year, which provide stable, useful and usable tools for the CG artist." -3D World Magazine Download your free copy of Sculptris HERE. ZBrush's Shadow Box modeling was also voted runner up in the 'Software Innovation of the Year' category. To learn more about Shadowbox, visit: Pixologic.com. |
| September, 2011 – Macworld Rates ZBrush 4.5 Mice ZBrush 4 has received 4.5 out of 5 mice in a review published today on Macworld.com. "The addition of some major new features like GoZ, ShadowBox, Spotlight, PolyPainting Layers, Timeline, and ZSketch, make this organic sculpting 3D modeler a must-have for designers in genres from gaming and animation to manufacturing and toy design." - Jeff Foster, Macworld.com – September 15, 2011 With all the great features in Version 4, it's no wonder it continues to catch the attention of critics and users alike. The newest advancements in ZBrush 4 Release 2, releasing this Tuesday, September 20th, are sure to amaze them all once more. Stay tuned! Read the full review on Macworld.com |
| September, 2011 – Making Time For Art, Sneak Peek #4 OF ZBRUSH 4R2 Pixolator presents Making Time For Art, Sneak Peek #4 of ZBrush 4 Release 2 - A closer look at the power of the revolutionary new feature, Dynamesh. Pixolator's newest video preview reveals how using Dynamesh in your workflow will free your creativity and speed-up your work time. "DynaMesh enables you to explore multiple concepts in a very short period of time. You do not need to create a base mesh to fit your target-concept, or even have a specific concept in mind. You may simply select a sphere, activate DynaMesh, and let your creative juices flow! It is exhilarating to freely reshape the mesh and quickly explore many ideas until you arrive at a concept worthy of progressing into finer detail." - Pixolator Read Pixolator's Sneak Peek Thread on ZBrushCentral |
| September, 2011 – Free tutorial from Mixamo.com Free 8 min. tutorial on Mixamo.com shows you how to take your characters from ZBrush into the Mixamo Auto-Rigger and quickly add rigging and animated movements to your character. Mixamo presents the ultimate solution for ZBrush artists delivering assets into Unity3D. Speed up development time by rigging, testing, and animating your character on Mixamo.com - then download directly into Unity. 1. Create model in ZBrush 2. Auto-Rig and animate on Mixamo.com 3. Import to Unity 3D Watch the tutorial at Mixamo.com |
| August, 2011 – ZBrush Interview: "Deus Ex: Human Revolution" One of the oldest and most respected franchises in the gaming world, Deus Ex has long been awaiting a third installment. It's here at last! Released on August 23, 2011 "Deus Ex: Human Revolution" has already garnered terrific praise from critics and even higher accolades from gamers. As an example, IGN gave the game a score of 9.0 which they classify as "amazing". The player reviews on the same site give it a solid 10. On an artistic front, the game has a very distinctive look that manages to be both realistic and stylized. It is a beautiful game with clever details everywhere you look. What's more, since the story focuses on human augmentation (bionics) moving into the mainstream, the art team had to blend man with machine. It had to look high tech, yet because this story is actually a prequel to the previous games it also had to look more primitive than what has been seen in the past. For this interview, we spoke with Sébastien Legrain — known here at ZBC as sebcesoir. He's been an avid ZBrush user for a long time now and many of you will no doubt remember his The RiSiNG thread or phenomenal Projection Master tutorial. Always willing to share with the community, he was more than happy to talk about his team's techniques as they tackled Deus Ex. Read the interview HERE. Join in the conversation on the ZBC thread at ZBrushCentral. Be sure to also check out our many past interviews, which can be found in the ZBrush Artist Interviews forum and the User Stories page at the Pixologic website. |
| August, 2011 – Sneak Peek #3 OF ZBRUSH 4R2 - "Clay Time" Pixolator presents Sneak Peak #3 of ZBrush 4 Release 2 - Making Time For Art, "Clay Time"!!! Discover more about one of the new core feature of ZBrush 4R2: Dynamesh. "DynaMesh enables you to explore multiple concepts in a very short period of time. You do not need to create a base mesh to fit your target-concept, or even have a specific concept in mind. You may simply select a sphere, activate DynaMesh, and let your creative juices flow! It is exhilarating to freely reshape the mesh and quickly explore many ideas until you arrive at a concept worthy of progressing into finer detail." - Pixolator Read Pixolator's Sneak Peek Thread on ZBrushCentral |
| August, 2011 – SIGGRAPH 2011 - Straight from the ZBlog Siggraph 2011 promised to be an event of extreme proportions. The city of Vancouver was touted as a fun place with great surrounding attractions, and a Convention Center made famous during the 2010 Winter Olympics. The city and its people didn't disappoint! The "Big Black Box" as it was being called on the showroom floor, reigned supreme and was never short of visitors. Pixologic really stood out as the show stopper with an ensemble cast of presenters taken straight from the ranks of Hollywood and Vancouver's finest studios! Read more about Pixologic at Siggraph and view pictures of the event at the ZBrush Blog. |
| August, 2011 – ZBrush Interview: Framestore Most of the time when watching TV we tend to tune out during the commercials or even go do something else around the house until the program returns. Not so with the Super Bowl! This annual event charges the highest prices on U.S. TV for commercial slots and so advertisers always try to come up with something really special to grab audience attention and make that investment pay off. The result is that some people watch the Super Bowl for the commercials rather than the game! One of this year's stand-out entries came from Coca-Cola in the form of an epic animated fantasy battle — with an unexpected conclusion. This highly memorable commercial was created in CG by Framestore under the production of Nexus. While it may have taken some a while to actually make this interview happen, we're sure you'll agree it was wroth the wait! The artists at Framestore really went all out, providing us with an unprecedented number of turntables for your viewing pleasure and even a behind the scenes "making of" movie! Read the interview HERE. Join in the conversation on the ZBC thread at ZBrushCentral. Be sure to also check out our many past interviews, which can be found in the ZBrush Artist Interviews forum and the User Stories page at the Pixologic website. |
| August, 2011 – Sneak peek #2 of ZBrush 4R2 Pixolator presents Sneak Peak #2 of ZBrush 4 Release 2!!! In the first preview, we showed you the new and improved BPR renderer with a full 32-bit floating-point HDR pipeline. Now take a look at more incredible NEW features and major enhancements coming up in Z4R2!! "I do believe ZBrush 4R2 will enable you to be more creative and productive than ever before." - Pixolator Watch SNEAK PEEK #2 now! |
| August, 2011 – Siggraph 2011 Join Pixologic at booth #439. We will have industry leading artists presenting some of the amazing features in ZBrush 4, including Bryan Wynia, Eric Keller, Jelmer Boskma, and many others (view the full list and presentation schedule at our Siggraph Page) . We are also hosting a daily raffle of a Sideshow Collectibles statuette created using ZBrush. Only attendees of the conference can enter, so make sure you stop by our booth for a form. Attendees of Siggraph 2011 are also eligible for a 20% discount off ZBrush 4, including a free upgrade to the next version. Thomas Roussel of Pixologic will be leading two presentations at The Studio. Change your approach to modeling with ZBrush Wednesday, August 10, 9:00am – 10:30am More info here. ZBrush Features – From concept to final render Wednesday, August 10, 11:00am – 12:00pm More info here. Paul Gaboury of Pixologic will be leading a demo at Pixar. ZBrush - Workflow for RenderMan Thursday, August 11, 12:00-12:30 This demo will showcase the workflow from ZBrush to Renderman Maya, rendering in RenderMan with a decimated mesh and a non-decimated mesh. For more information or to schedule a meeting with Pixologic representatives at Siggraph, please visit our Siggraph Page. See you there! |
| August, 2011 – ZBrush, "For The Man Who Has Everything" Dave Gibbons, the legendary artist of "Watchmen", used ZBrush while working on "Superman: For The Man Who Has Everything." ZBrush was utilized to create a three-dimensional model of the villain Mongul's head, as it is such an odd shape, Gibbons had difficulty rendering it directly from his mind. Gibbons came to Comic-Con International in San Diego to discuss his life as a comic book creator and impart some technical knowledge upon the masses of fans who hope to follow in his footsteps. The interview rules were simple: Call out a letter, and let Gibbons do the rest. Covering the letters "Z" and "Q", he described two of the tools he has utilized to make his artwork, the computer program ZBrush and Q-Tips. (Taken from www.comicbookresources.com Contributing writer, David Winnick |
| July, 2011 – ZBrush at Comic-Con!
If you're going to this year's Comic-Con, make sure to stop by the Anatomy Tools booth (#5120) and say hello to Pixologic. We'll be there on Saturday and Sunday afternoons giving ZBrush demos. Anatomy Tools will also have limited edition signed model busts from Jordu Schell for sale, as well as a 50% off sale on their miniature male skull (1/3 life size) and a raffle contest for some awesome prizes. More info is on our Comic-Con UGM Page, but here's a quick overview: |
| July, 2011 – User Group Meeting: Association of Medical Illustrators in Baltimore
Pixologic will be at the Association of Medical Illustrators Conference this Friday in Baltimore presenting the program "ZBrush: A Digital Sculpting Tool with Unlimited Possibilities" at Friday's Techniques Showcase. Conference attendees can come for the presentation and stay for a Q&A with Pixologic's own Paul Gaboury. |
| July, 2011 – The Gnomon Workshop Presents: Introduction to ZBrush 4 with Scott Spencer The Gnomon Workshop has just released a new ZBrush Tutorial: Introduction to ZBrush 4 with Scott Spencer. With nearly 14 hours of lecture from one of the industry's leading artists, this set provides the most comprehensive set of instructional videos ever created for ZBrush users. This DVD covers the basics through to advanced sculpting and detailing, as well as workflows and issues that may arise in production pipelines. This DVD is a must have for any ZBrush user. View the promo video at The Gnomon Workshop's Facebook Page
To purchase the DVD, visit The Gnomon Workshop |
| July, 2011 – Pixologic sponsored CGSA Winners announced! The winners of CGSA (Computer Graphics Student Awards) were chosen from more than 150 applicants for their exceptional computer graphics skills. The winners (x2) and finalists (x8) of this event each receive a full commercial license copy of ZBrush and share a total prize pool of over $50,000USD and 18 Studio Internships. See results and winning artists' submissions at CG Coach See Kouji Tajima's ZBC thread at ZBrushCentral |
| July, 2011 – New ZBrush Tutorials Whether you're a ZBrush novice or a seasoned veteran, these tutorials will help you expand your creativity and push your art to the next level. For more tutorials from our 3rd party partners, visit ZClassroom Training CGWorkshops Concept Sculpting and Maquettes, w/ Bryan Wynia In the second of CGWorkshops 3 week summer school workshops, Bryan will demonstrate how to create 3D creature concepts in Zbrush. Modern Game Art - Weapons, w/ Jonathan Rush Suitable for artists of all levels, this course will cover the principles of hard surface modeling in Zbrush. Digital Tutors Using Blend Shapes Plugin for ZBrush Digital Tutors explains how to use the Blend Shapes plugin in ZBrush to quickly create and export blend shapes for use in Maya. Sparkle VFX ZBrush Training – ZSpheres, w/ Glen Southern Learn how to create a dynamic model from the ground up using ZSpheres. FREE! Maxro ZBrush Power Workshops: German Language Maxro has just released a DVD that covers LightBox, ShadowBox, Subtools, Polypainting, BPR, Animation, Extraction, and more. |
| July, 2011 – The Brawl Tournament: Winners Announced! Back in April, we announced The Brawl Tournament -- a very interesting contest put on by polycount and built around the idea of creating new 3D interpretations of characters from your favorite 2D or 3D fighting games. 21 ZBC artists participated in the forum that we created to house the contest and today we're pleased to be bringing you the winners list! All four of the winners used ZBrush and the results are spectacular! First Place: Cammy by Bogdanbl4 ZBC Thread polycount winner's page Second Place: Mario by JFletcher ZBC Thread polycount winner's page Third Place: Haggar by rv_el ZBC Thread polycount winner's page Fourth Place: Chun Li by Hazardous ZBC Thread polycount winner's page Please join us in congratulating each of our winners, as well as all the ZBrush artists who participated! Even for those who didn't win, there was some outstanding ZBrush artwork! |
| July, 2011 – ZBrush Interview: MPC on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader In December, audiences were transported yet again to the magical world of Narnia, this time with an epic journey aboard the Dawn Treader. Due to its literary legacy, "The Chronicles of Narnia" is considered to be one of the biggest movie franchises in the world. The series has now grossed over $1.5 billion, making it the 15th highest grossing movie series in history! In bringing the third film to the screen, MPC was contracted to provide a number of assets and shots for key sequences. They used ZBrush to help them achieve this and we have since been able to speak with them about their work on the film. Today, it's our pleasure to present that interview to you! It's been a while in the making, but we're confident that you'll find it to be an interesting and informative read. Read the interview HERE. Join in the conversation on the ZBC thread at ZBrushCentral. Be sure to also check out our many past interviews, which can be found in the ZBrush Artist Interviews forum and the User Stories page at the Pixologic website. |
| July, 2011 – Pixologic makers of ZBrush and Sculptris nominated for 3 awards in the 3D World CG Awards 2011! Pixologic's ZBrush and Sculptris have been nominated in three separate award categories in the 3D World CG Awards 2011 Sculptris - New Application of the Year ZBrush 4 - Software Update of the Year Shadow Box modeling in ZBrush 4 - Software Innovation of the Year Have your say... Vote today in the 3D World CG Awards 2011 "The 3D World CG Awards will recognize the work of the entire CG entertainment industry: from software and hardware developers who give us the tools and engines to drive creativity to the artists and technicians involved in pushing the boundaries of CG illustration, animation, visual effects and arch viz. There are 14 categories in our brand new 3D World CG Awards 2011. You can vote for as few or as many categories as you would like. Please select one nominee only in each category – and remember – you can only vote once in each category. Join the celebration of the technology and artistry behind the global CG industry" - 3D World CG Awards 2011 Vote now at 3DWorld.com |
| July, 2011 – Creating Modern Game Art – Weapons with ZBrush CGWorkshop's first 3 week summer school workshop! Building a great weapon can be different to creating a character or creature. EA Bioware's Jon Rush helps you hone your sculpting skills on a piece of awesome weaponry. This workshop covers the principles of hard surface modeling and how to deal with hard surface shapes in ZBrush. Bring your passion for 3D to this short summer workshop and let Jon perfect your weapon creation skills with ZBrush! Find out more at CGWorkshops |
| June, 2011 – Artist in Action: Creating a Better Demo Reel With ZBrush 4 Pixologic's new "Artist in Action" series presents "Creating A Better Demo Reel With ZBrush 4," a step by step tutorial with Steve Warner, featured in the current issue of Imagine Magazine. Generally speaking, there are two ways to land a job in the 3D industry. You can find work by who you know or you can find it by what you know, and when you're blindly sending out copies of your demo reel in hopes of finding work, you'll be judged solely on the latter. Steve Warner, Executive Director of the Digital Animation and Visual Effects School (DAVE School), shares 5 techniques you can use to make a better demo reel by harnessing the power of ZBrush 4.0 See the article in the Artist in Action section of Pixologic's User Stories. |
| June, 2011 – Pixologic's Sculptris – the 3D art tool for all ages! Pixologic sponsors The "Ice Age" To the Digital Age: The 3D Animation Art of Blue Sky Studios at The Norman Rockwell Museum Massachusetts. The exhibition features work from Blue Sky Studios in films including Ice Age, Ice Age 2, Ice Age 2, Robots and more. As part of the exhibition, Pixologic has provided the 3D sculpting program Sculptris for attendees of all ages to try their hand in 3D modeling and digital art creation –getting a feel for how characters and concepts for blockbuster movies might be made. "It has been truly amazing to watch people use Sculptris over the past few days. Our visitors have been actively engaged with Sculptris since the exhibition opened. Adults and children alike are drawn to the program, and we hope that this level of interaction will help to educate and inspire the next generation of animation professionals." - Corry Kanzenberg, Curator of Norman Rockwell Museum "Ice Age" To The Digital Age: The 3D Animation Art of Blue Sky Studios runs June 11 through October 31, 2011. Read about the exhibit at ArtDaily Learn more about Scupltris HERE |
| June, 2011 – New version of Sculptris (for Windows and MAC) released! Pixologic is pleased to announce the release of the new version of Sculptris (for Windows and MAC). Sculptris is an elegant, powerful and yet easy to use 3D sculpting software, allowing the artist in you to simply focus on creating amazing 3D artwork. Gone are the technical and often tedious constraints typically associated with digital art. If you're new to the world of digital sculpting, Sculptris is the ideal ground on which to get started! If on the other hand you're experienced in CG, you will find in Sculptris a blazingly fast way realize your concepts. It's intuitive, fun and user friendly, so you can focus as an artist on pure creativity. What's more, the skills you learn with Sculptris directly translate to ZBrush. The models that you create with Sculptris can even be sent to ZBrush with the click of a button using the GoZ functionality! Get your free download now! |
| June, 2011 – Artist in Action: The Venus From The Rhone River Pixologic launches a new series of "Artist in Action" features. The first article is by Pixologic French team member Thomas Roussel, who worked with the Arles Museum to reconstruct the features of a Greek Venus sculpture found deep in the Rhone River in Arles, France. Also recently featured in 3D Artist Magazine, the project is a great example of how ZBrush is being used beyond the entertainment industry, bringing new possibilites to historical reconstructions, science and medical visuals, sculpture, jewelry, and more. See the article in the Artist in Action section of Pixologic's User Stories. |
| June, 2011 – ZBrush in VolksWagen's 21st Century Black Beetle Step behind the scenes to see how The Mill visual effects studio used ZBrush to create the CG beetle featured in the recent commercial for VW's 21st Century Beetle (premiered during Super Bowl 2011.) Read the article on gaming education at YouTube "As for the insects, The Mill created eight main bugs, and in the case of the mantis and ants, tweaked the subsequently replicated models for variation. All the base models were generated using Autodesk's Softimage and then refined using the sculpting tools in Pixologic's ZBrush." - From CGW P27 March 2011 issue - read more |
| May, 2011 – ZBrush - the Industry Standard taught in top 10 schools for video game design ZBrush is taught as a standard in the top ten schools for video game design as identified in the Princeton review Read the article on gaming education at Consumer Electronics Net See where ZBrush is being taught in Pixologic's Schools page. |
| May, 2011 –
3D Artist: April Issue: 27 ZBrush 4 review gets 10 out of 10 Magazine front cover features art piece created in ZBrush by Rafael Grassetti 2 page review of ZBrush 4: p96/97 Features 10/10 Ease of use 9/10 Quality of results 10/10 Value for money 10/10 "Each update to ZBrush is more exciting than the last. ZBrush 4 continues this trend. What can possibly be in store for us in ZBrush 5?" ZBrush artists featured in The Gallery: Pascal Blanché Stanko Stupar Maarten Verhoeven Other Articles: Great DVD by Tony Reynolds sculpting himself using ZBrush p17 3D artist Arkin Esref is featured with his giant Construction site at sunrise which was created using several programs including ZBrush p50 Good article on Ferdi B Dick creating fluid creatures using ZBrush and Houdini p53 – Artist showcase on Ferdi B Dick p56 Step by Step Model the Futuristic Femme: part3 p68-73 Richard Yot explains his techniques for creating his artwork using ZBrush p64 |
| May, 2011 – ZBrush and The Mighty Destroyer for Thor Following the recent release of Marvel Entertainment's big-budget effects-o-rama Thor, Luma Pictures showcases its work on key sequences featuring The Mighty Destroyer. Working with Marvel's creative VFX team, Luma recreated The Destroyer for the movie using a pipeline of Maya, and ZBrush for character modelling. The studio also used its own in-house rigging toolset. Read the article at 3D World Magazine |
| May, 2011 – ZBrush Training - Digital Tutors Creature Creation Techniques in ZBrush - Professional Series from Digital Tutors In this collection of lessons learn about different tools and techniques you can use to enhance your creature creation workflow in ZBrush. Learn more about the tutorial at Digital Tutors |
| May, 2011 – ZBrush Design “Freedom” Challenge The Freedom Challenge from 3Dchallenge.org is going on now! Submit your entries by July 4th. What does FREEDOM mean to you? If you think about freedom from a creative point of view, it could mean everything from a war prisoner’s daring escape from his captives, Icarus leaping from his perch taking flight, even Frankenstein’s monster breaking free of his castle wall shackles. Depending on where you live in the world, your life’s experiences and how past or present events have effected your vision, as an artist, freedom can be many things to many different people. This is the challenge we bestow upon you. So…you up for a challenge? More info and rules at 3Dchallenge.org |
| May, 2011 – Pixologic Sponsors CGHUB & Imagine FX legendary art challenge for 2011 CGHUB & Imagine FX are teaming up to bring a legendary art challenge for 2011! 1st Prize wins a license of ZBrush 4 and much much more! Fairytales with a Twist – the challenge is encouraging participants to take a favorite classic fairy tale and re-imagine a scene or character from it. Cinderella in space? Sure! Sleeping handsome and Princess charming? Why not? Here’s the chance to re-invent the classics! “Art is self-referencing, which means we often have to re-imagine old stories in such a way that we make them new again. This is your challenge.” – CG Hub More info at cghub.com |
| April, 2011 – Evermotion 2011 arch-vis competition Evermotion has launched its 2011 arch-viz competition, offering artists prizes including Premium Portfolio accounts on Evermotion.org, Fryrender-ArionRender Multi GPU packs, V-ray, ZBrush and Digital-Tutors subscriptions. The challenge is to create an interior or exterior image of something that is inspiring to the artist. The only condition is that it has to be realistic. For more info and submission guidelines, visit www.evermotion.org |
| April, 2011 – ZBrush used in the Making of The World's Largest Dinosaurs NEW YORK, April 18 — The American Museum of Natural History is featuring a life-sized model of the Sauropod Mamenchisaurus Hochuanensis at the center of the new exhibition The World’s Largest Dinosaurs. The model measures 60 feet long and stands 11 feet high at the shoulder; the neck alone is nearly 30 feet long. Read about the making of the exhibit at www.amnh.com Read an article about the exhibit at www.nytimes.com See more dinosaur fabrication and animation by Hall Train Studios |
| April, 2011 –ZBrush in 3D World Magazine: April 2011 Issue 141 Artist Portfolio:This month’s selection of new 3D artwork Damir Martin (Moment before 'Extinction') Robin Benes ('GOR: the Goblin Pirate') Maria Kosheleva ('Shells') The Making of Rango: pp 36-45 Instead of sculpting maquettes from clay they decided to do digital ones using ZBrush ''we gave ourselves three days to do a maquette with textures'' Geoff Campbell -model supervisor at ILM ''Modeller Frank Cravat created Rango’s major skin paterns, using ZBrush displacement to produce bumps and scales'' Showcase Projects ‘Framestore NY used ZBrush among other programs to create a new 'shark –infested’ spot for SNICKERS ad’ p65 Others Medievel Fight Book program: ZBrush was used to create the diver in the documentary p110 Review of messiah:studio5.0 : ‘surface displacement capabilities work well with sculpts from ZBrush and don't fear high polygon counts’ p102 |
| April, 2011 – Rick Baker and ZBrush set sail with Tales from the Grave The LA Times posted the cover for TALES FROM THE GRAVE #2, which hits stores in July and was unveiled at WonderCon over the weekend by the comic's publisher, Monsterverse. ZBrush artist Rick Baker created the eye-catching, spooky seafarer with ZBrush. Kerry Gammill, the editor and publisher of Monsterverse, came up with the ship and stormy sea in the background and also handled some color tweaking and the logo work. See the article at www.latimes.com Article also featured on Fangoria View Rick Baker's WIP's of the Sailor on ZBrushCentral |
| April, 2011 – 'Tron: Legacy' costume designer talks ZBrush and light-up suits - LA Times Dec 2010 Back in December, LA Times talked with Christine Clark, co-costume designer for Tron: Legacy, about the creation of the film's iconic latex garbs. The costumes are based on the concept art of Neville Page, also created in ZBrush, and are made to fit like a second skin. "We worked with an application called ZBrush to digitally sculpt the suits. So we took an actor's digital scans, then sculpted on top of the scans using the program. The material is foam latex with a little Spandex." - Christine Clark, co-costume designer Read the interview with Christine Clark at www.latimes.com Watch a presentation by Neville Page on the costume concept designs HERE |
| April, 2011 – ZBrush makes giant Popcorn The 2011 trailer for The FMX 2011 conference in Stuttgart Germany, features giant pop corn modeled in ZBrush, 'A Maize' was created by students of the Institute of Animation, Effects and Digital Postproduction. "The biggest difficulty we prepared was the combination of displacement and subsurface scattering in mental ray. The computers required a lot of computing power and memory to perform these tests. We decided to use Pixologic ZBrush in the popcorn model - created according to the specific needs." Falko Paeper View the video at www.fmx.de Read about how it was made at Digital Media World |
| April, 2011 – ZBrush artist Alessandro Baldasseroni interviewed in 3D Total.com "Some people prefer to use ZBrush even at early stages for roughing up proportions and later for detailing, whilst other people prefer to rely on a brush only for the details. As far as I am concerned I couldn't imagine not including ZBrush in every step of my modeling pipeline, even during the early stages whilst blocking in the proportions." - Alessandro Baldasseroni See the interview at 3DTotal.com |
| April, 2011 – Top ZBrush School – Gnomon featured in 3D artist magazine (issue 25) In-depth interview: Gnomon School Alex Alvarez reveals its past, present and future pages 26-33 ZBrush Artist in profile: 3D Ali Zafati ZBrush artists featured in The Gallery: Tomasz Strzalkowski 'Old Ship' Kazuhiko Nakamura 'Brain Tower' Feature : 'The Art of War' How ZBrush is being applied in fighting games Step by Step in ZBrush: Model the Futuristic Femme/Create a biker with Maya & ZBrush In the workshop... ZBrush 4's Spotlight tool |
| April, 2011 – 55 dragons in ZBrush Damir Martin discusses how he created 55 dragons in 28 days with tutorials on his entire process at CGtantra.com View the article at CGtantra.com See Damir's ZBC thread at ZBrushCentral See his sculpts in 360 at the Turntable Gallery Download Damir's dragon alphas at the Download Center |
| April, 2011 – Sculpt a demonic creature bust in ZBrush Scott Spencer helps you explore form and detailing in your modeling as he creates a demon head. View the article at 3D World Mag |
| March, 2011 –
Brush in 3D Artist Magazine Issue 26 March 2011 Magazine front cover features art piece created in ZBrush by Federico Scarbini along with a Step by Step feature on the 'making of'p54-59 The Gallery: ZBrush artists p11-17 Robin Benes Ted Lockwood Rafael Grassetti David Munoz Velazquez Thumbs up to ZBrush: freelance artist Martin Nikolov uses mostly ZBrush to create characters p19 Behind the scenes of Dead Space 2 (Ben Wanat): 'ZBrush has numerous improvements and ZSketch is one new feature I would like to mention; it's worked really well for building organic forms for creatures. Sometimes I skip the painting phase and concept the idea in ZBrush - this has gotten easier to do with versions 3 and 4.' p44 Step by Step: Gavin Goulden p70-75 Model the futuristic femme part2 01 Export guides from ZBrush 02 Make life easier with layers 03 Edge extrusion method The studio: Ognian Bonev Carlson Woon King Kee |
| March, 2011 – Pixologic sponsors Computer Graphics Student Awards 2011 Calling all Students -Enter your ZBrush demo reels now! The Computer Graphics Student Awards is an annual event which showcases and rewards excellence in computer graphics for students and recent graduates. Qualified students are encouraged to submit their Demo Reel to the judging panel and compete for prizes (over $50,000 USD worth of hardware, software and subscriptions) and internships at the world's leading production studios. 'To win the student of the year just blew me away! The exposure I got helped me a lot: companies started noticing me, and I received emails from several different studios, which was cool!' - Maximilian-Gordon Vogt- ZBrush artist and CGSA Student of the Year 2010 winner For submission details and info go to www.cgcoach.com |
| March, 2011 – Calling all ZBrush artists
Win a copy of ZBrush 4 with the 3D World Creative Challenge! The latest 3D World Creative Challenge will be running March-April! Model your own creature, the more fantastical the better, they’ll be judging on creativity. “The winner will be the person who builds the nicest creature in terms of design, stance and pose – but we aren’t looking for a finished project…. The idea for this project is for artists to create just a base model, which can then be subdivided and detailed in ZBrush.” ‘’Thanks to Pixologic, makers of ZBrush, we now have a license for the sculpting tool to give away, worth $699.’’ Visit 3D World Magazine to read more about the challenge and prizes. Visit the official Creative Challenge thread on the 3D World Forum for full details about submitting your work. |
| March, 2011 – Digital Tutors has released three new courses focusing on ZBrush 4 Visit Digital Tutors for more info on these courses: Beginners Guide to ZBrush 4 Presentation techniques in ZBrush 4 Creating a Handgun in ZBrush 4 See more info on ZBrush 3rd party training and Digital Tutors in the ZClassroom See more Digital Tutors ZBrush training materials |
| March, 2011 –Stylized character modeling course from The Gnomon Workshop The Gnomon Workshop has just released another ZBrush tutorial DVD, "Stylized Character Modeling For Production" with Alessandro Baldasseroni. This course shows Alessandro's workflow to model a stylized character from a given concept for animation production. Learn more about this course at The Gnomon Workshop Find additional training videos at Pixologic's 3rd Party page |
| March, 2011 – Rick Baker and ZBrush set sail with Tales from the Grave The LA Times posted the cover for TALES FROM THE GRAVE #2, which hits stores in July and was unveiled at WonderCon over the weekend by the comic's publisher, Monsterverse. ZBrush artist Rick Baker created the eye-catching, spooky seafarer with ZBrush. Kerry Gammill, the editor and publisher of Monsterverse, came up with the ship and stormy sea in the background and also handled some color tweaking and the logo work. See the article at www.latimes.com Article also featured on Fangoria View Rick Baker's WIP's of the Sailor on ZBrushCentral |
| March, 2011 –ZBrush in 3D World Magazine: March 2011 issue 140 Artist Portfolio: Alessandro Baldasseroni (Little Soldier) Andrius Balcinuas (Homesick) Pierre Bourgeout (Demon Lord) "The sculpting itself took less than a couple weeks. One notable brush I used was the new Tilt feature in ZBrush 4.0 to create scales" Post Production: ZBrush bring dinosaurs to life ‘A close up of the Dimorphodon shows the fantastic texture detail created using ZBrush’ p105 |
| February, 2011 – Eat3D Releases New ZBrush DVD Eat3D has just released another ZBrush tutorial DVD. This 7.5 hour course by Mike Jensen focuses on hard surface modeling by constructing a mechanical character. Learn more about this tutorial at Eat 3D Find additional videos at our 3rd Party page |
| February, 2011 – ZBrush 4: Full Feature Trial Available Now! Pixologic is pleased to announce the availability of a ZBrush 4 Trial version for both Win and Mac! The ZBrush 4 Trial grants you access to all of ZBrush 4's powerful features (including all plugins) for 30 days. For your convenience, those days can be spread out however you like over a total of 45 days. Use them at your leisure or consecutively! There's never been a better way to get to know ZBrush! Download the ZBrush Trial Download the Getting Started with ZBrush guide Download free ZBrush Plugins |
| February, 2011 – BornDigital creates ZBrush speed sculpting seminar!! BornDigital, a ZBrush reseller in Japan organized a speed sculpt seminar last week featuring ZBC top row artist: Koji Tajima. Koji created his sculpt from start to finish in 90 minutes in front of more than 200 Japanese CG artists! See the movie of the seminar on YouTube See Koji Tajima's thread on ZBrushCentral See the seminar presentation at BornDigital |
| February, 2011 – Three New ZBrush Training Books Available For Order Now Wiley Publishing is releasing a few new ZBrush 4 books. Top industry artists Eric Keller, Ryan Kingslien, and Scott Spencer each share their expertise and walk you through everything from beginning ZBrush to advanced digital sculpting. Whether you’re just starting out or are a seasoned veteran, you’ll find something of use in these books. Introducing ZBrush 4 By Eric Keller ZBrush Studio Projects: Realistic Game Characters By Ryan Kingslien ZBrush Character Creation: Advanced Digital Sculpting, 2nd Edition By Scott Spencer For addition books and learning materials, visit Wiley Publishing, or Pixologic's ZClassroom |
| February, 2011 – Digital Tutors has released four new courses focusing on ZBrush 4 Visit Digital Tutors for more info on these courses: Rendering Enhancements in ZBrush 4 Projection Painting with Spotlight in ZBrush 4 Creating Game Characters with 3ds Max 2011 and ZBrush 4 Creating Game Weapons in CINEMA 4D and ZBrush 4 See more info on ZBrush 3rd party training and Digital Tutors in the ZClassroom See Digital Tutors ZBrush training materials |
| February, 2011 – Z Brush featured in latest Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine issue (# 254 March/April) 11 pages (p62-73) of interviews, quotes and images showing how top industry monster makers are using ZBrush ‘‘There are some people who are kind of mathematical or very scientific about the way they do things. I'm more organic about it. I just want to get in there and start pushing stuff around and do something. And that's what I like about ZBrush. It’s so much like sculpting...That is so cool.’’ Rick Baker - ZBrush artist, AKA ‘monstermaker’ and 6 time Academy Awards® winner ‘‘There are no technical boundaries in ZBrush: anyone can use the program-the transition from the physical to the digital medium has never been so seemless!’’ - FMOF Find a copy in your local bookstore or at www.famousmonstersoffilmland.com. |
| February, 2011 – Scott Spencer provides interview and ZBrush tutorial in 3D World Magazine Scott shows his workflow and methods for creating a biomechanical character using ZBrush. He showcases many of the features of ZBrush 4, including the new Clip Brushes, ShadowBox, and GoZ. Many of the new features allow him to effortlessly combine organic and hard-edge modeling to create his character. For the tutorial, visit 3D World. For more info on issue 139, visit 3dworldmag.com. |
| January, 2011 – High-End Fantasy Game Art Creation Workshop available from CGSociety Feb. 21- Apr. 18 CGSociety's CGWorkshops are offering an advanced online 8 week workshop by Katon Callaway, Senior Character Artist at SCE Santa Monica Studio, focusing on creating high quality character art ready for the gaming pipeline. Topics covered include Polygroups and base anatomy, Mesh Extraction for hard surface objects, creating an optimal mesh and UV mapping, rendering, and the professional game art workflow. See more info or sign up at CGWorkshops |
| January, 2011 – Escape Studios release new in depth ZBrush courses The course contains an in-depth look at ZBrush from the ground up, including new features of ZBrush 4, and how it is used in different industry sectors’ workflows, games and broadcast/film pipelines. With over two hundred videos and 28 hours of training, there is a huge amount of information covered. See more info at ZBrush Central Visit Escape Studios |
| January, 2011 – Digital tutors release new ZBrush 4 video training tutorials Digital Tutors release a series of new tutorials on ZBrush 4 including: What's new in ZBrush 4 Working with Spotlight in ZBrush 4 Creating High Resolution Characters in ZBrush 4 See more info on ZBrush 3rd party training and Digital Tutors in the ZClassroom See Digital Tutors ZBrush training materials |
| January, 2011 – Review of ZBrush 4 in Studio Daily: Overall rating = Hot! ''I could go on and on; the above are but a small sample of the many great new tools available in ZBrush 4 that will continually stretch your imagination and creativity…this powerful program truly is the closest thing to working with traditional clay.'' - Reviewer Bridgette Mongeon |
| January, 2011 – Gnomon School of Visual Effects Master Classes 2011 Gnomon recently released this package deal, inlcuding two weeks of exclusive online classes taught by leading professionals in the visual effects and games industries. The Master Classes contain 30+ hours of HD video lectures and features ZBrush in "3D Design for Production" with Vitaly Bulgarov, "The Making of 'Dirge'" with Alex Alvarez, and "ZBrush to Photoshop - Character Design Tutorial" with Scott Spencer. The classes will give the viewer insights to the instructors' work flows, techniques, and thought processes. Each video can be accessed at any time during the event and as often as the viewer likes. |
| January, 2011 – ESC Studios Student Bundle Deal Calling all UK students! Get the special ZBrush ‘Know How’ software and courseware student bundle deal from our UK Reseller, Escape Studios! |
| November, 2010 – ZBrush 4 Review in 3D World Magazine 3D World November issue features a comprehensive 4 page review of ZBrush 4 by Scott Spencer. Scott is a ZBrush beta tester, currently working at Weta Workshops and is author of ZBrush Character Creation and ZBrush Digital Sculpting: Human Anatomy. In this article he refers to images by Byran Wynia (another ZBrush beta tester) who created the creature design sculpt and render using ZBrush 4. The November 3D World also features a 6 page article and training tutorial by Ryan Kingslein on how to build a character from scratch and add materials. Ryan reveals how he uses ZBrush in his workflow to create accurate anatomy and convincing clothing. - Articles by Scott Spencer and Ryan Kingslein |
| November, 2010 – ZBrush and ZBrush 4 beta testers and artists featured extensively in latest edition of 3D Artist 3D artist magazine front cover features the ‘Roller Bunny’ image created in ZBrush by Gregory Callahan. The ‘gallery’ team loved Mr ThiNose, a plasticine man sculpt, by ZBrush 4 beta tester and artist Yiannis Tyropolis -Yiannis said the character was created during beta testing for ZBrush 4. 3D Artist ‘studio’ section features a special 6 page step by step tutorial by top CG/VFX artist Akin Bilgica, on how he used ZBrush in the character modeling workflow in the making of the Sky Fisherman. Frederick Storm, another ZBrush 4 beta tester was interviewed in the ‘community’ section showing how he uses ZBrush in his design process. Frederick is also included in the magazine free disc showing a 40 minute video on how he makes a critter character from scratch using ZBrush. Ryan Kingslien’s free ‘ZBrush Workshops’ was recommended as an invaluable resource and other ZBrush artists were featured in the Questions and Answers section on "how to create my own MatCap material in ZBrush." |
| October, 2010 – ZBrush’s latest contributions to the game industry! How ZBrush is pushing the state of the art in the game industry with the current generation of CG game characters - Article by John Gaudiosi |
| June, 2010 – ZBrush 3.5r3: Game Developer Review "So is ZBrush® worth it? I have used other 3D sculpting tools, and they have generally been easier to just pick up and jump into, but none of them have come anywhere near the power and versatility of ZBrush®. It truly allows the artist to create anything he or she can imagine." - Review by Adam May |
| January, 2010 – Vancouver Film School and Pixologic Announce Official Partnership – 3D Industry and Educational Leaders Join Forces Vancouver Film School (VFS), Canada’s premier entertainment arts institution, and Pixologic, maker of the award-winning 2D/3D sculpting, texturing, and painting application ZBrush®, today announced an official partnership agreement to provide VFS with full access to educational licenses for Pixologic’s cutting-edge software, ZBrush®. |
| January, 2010 – ZBrush® Digital Sculpting Human Anatomy Scott Spencer has written a new book that teaches anatomy in a coherent and succinct style. Insightful explanations enable you to quickly and easily create characters for in many different industries. |
| December, 2009 – ZBrush 3.5r3 Tips and Tricks ZBrush 3.5 packs a lot of punch, with major workflow enhancements and exciting new features. There's a lot to take in, so ZBC put together a bunch of tips and tricks to give you a hand. |
| December, 2009 – Sculpting an Alien Helmet This ZClassroom video, will teach you how to use new ZBrush 3.5 features to create a quick sculpt with ZSphere, then add further detail with Polypaint to Polygroup conversion. |
| December, 2009 – ZBrush in the industry From Pirates of the Caribbean to Tron, ZBrush has been used in many feature films, games and commercials. So, Pixologic decided to put together a collection of all the places ZBrush® has been used. |
| November, 2009 – ZClassroom updated! Discover three new set of learning videos about the new ZBrush 3.5 update: ZSpheres II & ZSketch, Surface Noise and the Planar brushes. ZBrush 3.5 won't have any more secrets for you! |
| September, 2009 – ZSpheres II The ZSphere modeling tool within ZBrush® has ignited artist's imagination by freeing them from technical restraints. Take a look and ZSpheres II coming to ZBrush 3.5. |
| August, 2009 – PaintStop New to ZBrush's© powerful plugin library is PaintStop, which gives you truly life like painting and drawing tools. Download PaintStop now. |
| July, 2009 – ZBC Interview – Digic Studios Pixologic is proud to present an amazing Interview with Digic Studios on their work on such pieces as Warhammer: Mark of Chaos and their anticipated Assassins Creed II trailer. |
| June, 2009 – Pixologic Interview Archive Pixologic Archive of great interviews from industry leaders who use ZBrush®. |
| June, 2009 – ZBrush® Blog Pixologic™ launches the ZBrush® Blog. June 2009: Subscribe to the RSS feeds for the latest news and tutorials from Pixologic™. |
| June, 2009 – GoZ ZBrush® at the center of your workflow. June 2009: With a single click of a button, GoZ lets you quickly transfer your geometry back and forth between ZBrush® and other 3D applications... Visit GoZBrush.com for more information |
| May, 2009 – Action Hero Gallery Action Hero Gallery – Winners of the Action Hero Contest May 2009: Super things are happening on June 6, 2009 at 7:00 PM. This just in! Reports are coming in from Hollywood, CA for that super heroes and villains alike are being spotted at the Gnomon Gallery |
| April 23, 2009 – ZBrush 3.12B Update ZBrush 3.12B Update. ZBrush 3.12B contains optimizations and feature adjustments of ZBrush 3.12. The update is a free download for all ZBrush OSX registered users. |
| April 2009 – Texture Libraries ZBrush® Texture Libraries April 2009: Pixologic™ provides free Texture Library images created for the community and ZBrush. |
| March 2009 – Alpha Libraries Free Alpha Library downloads. March 21, 2009: Pixologic™ provides free Alpha Library images created for the community and ZBrush. |
| February 2009 – Action Hero Contest Winners Winners Announced. February, 2009: Pixologic™ announces the winners of the Action Hero contest. View the gallery of winners and the prizes they received worth a net total of $12,000. |
| January 2009 – ZClassroom Homeroom ZClassroom Homeroom never looked so good. February 21, 2009: Register for your opportunity to see ZBrush® demos by industry professionals. RSVP ends February 19, 2009. |
| January 2009 – User Group Meeting Pixologic™ hosts the User Group Meeting in Denver February 21, 2009: Register for your opportunity to see ZBrush® demos by industry professionals. RSVP ends February 19, 2009. |
| December 2008 – Epic Focus Interview with Epic Games. Pixologic's exclusive interview with Epic Games and ZBrush's critical role in the development of Gears of War 2. Full gallery of images done by the artists of Epic Games. |
| December 2008 – Action Hero Contest Pixologic™ lanuches the Action Hero Contest Prizes totaling $12,500. Click here to take part in this competition to create the greatest Action Hero! |
| November 2008 – MatCap Downloads Library The official ZBrush® MatCap Library Here you will find an easy to use browser that let's you choose a category and then download any material that catches your eye. |
| November 2008 – Turntable Gallery 2 View ZBrush® sculptures in 360 degrees Experience ZBrush® sculptures in our newly updated interactive 360 degree turntable gallery. |
| September 2008 – ZBrush® for Mac OS X ZBrush 3.12 comes to the Mac Pixologic™ releases ZBrush 3.12 for Mac OS X. Check out some of the new features offered for ZBrush 3.12 and download a copy today |
| September 2008 – NEW Video Tutorials A look inside the industry with Cesar Dacol Jr. Cesar Dacol Jr. has worked in the film industry for nearly 20 years, having started his career in the makeup effects industry and transitioning to computers effects in the mid 90’s. |
| August 2008 – NEW Video Tutorials Architectural Techniques: Advance Projection Master In this set of video tutorials Sebastien Legrain shows you step by step how he creates complex architectural elements using the power of Projection Master inside ZBrush. |
| August 2008 – NEW Turntable Gallery Experience ZBrush® sculptures in our new interactive 360 degree turntable gallery. |
| July 2008 – Artist Intreview Sze Jones "I can’t imagine my tool box without ZBrush® in it. I think ZBrush® itself is a “Must have” tool for every artist." – Sze Jones |
| July 2008 – Artist Profile Jelmer Boskma "I have used ZBrush® and XSI on all my personal projects, and I find they work great together...Also modifying or posing the geometry at a later stage in XSI, and re-importing it back into ZBrush® has proven to not be a problem at all." – Jelmer Boskma |
| June 2008 – Stan Winston 1946 - 2008 Pixologic™ would like to take this moment to give homage to one of the greatest visionaries of Hollywood movie magic. Farewell Stan... |
| June 2008 – Large As Life During the late Cretaceous period, size did matter. But then again, nearly all the creatures at the time were supersized. CineVision used ZBrush® in the pipeline where the details were added and sculpted in. And detail was extremely important in the IMAX environment. Thus, when the high-res model was approved, it was subsequently broken up into smaller pieces and taken back into ZBrush® so another level of detail could be added. Computer Graphics World, "Large As Life" ‐ Volume 31 Issue 1 January 2008 |
| June 2008 – ZBrush® Character Creation: Advanced Digital Sculpting Digital Art Director Scott Spencer at Gentle Giant Studios provides his expertise and experience in ZBrush® with real life examples and insight from other industry experts. Eric Keller has been working professionally as a digital artist and 3D animator since 1998. If you want to take advantage of one of the hottest CGI tools available, Introducing ZBrush® is the perfect place to start. |
| May 2008 – ILM: The Spiderwick Chronicles Interview with Frank Gravatt: Creature Modeler, Concept artist, and Digital Supervisor Frank Gravatt discusses what he went through to climb the ranks of ILM. Frank uses ZBrush® to create Mulgarath's as a combination of "demonic nastiness." "I was blown away by what I could do in ZBrush." He also discusses how he used ZBrush's® alphas to create realistic textures and sculptures. |
| May 2008 – Power Play on Power Suits Find out how Winston Helgason led the team at The Embassy to build the Mark I using ZBrush® for this year's blockbuster hit Iron Man. Computer Graphics World, "Power Suits" – April 2008 |
| May 2008 – Lions, Tigers and Bears 'Oh My!' An entire Narnian animal kingdom needed to be created digitally for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Read how ZBrush® helped in creating this animal kingdom, digital genesis. Computer Graphics World, "Animal Kingdom" – April 2008 |
| April 2008 – Walk the dinosaur: pDF Part1, PDF Part 2 In 3DWorld magazine special 21-page cover project, Weta Productions animation director Steve Lambert provides a complete step-by-step guide to animating a dinosaur in motion, using Weta's actual production workflow. Contents include (Contents included in the PDF are in BOLD): Modeling a basic blockmesh in Maya Refining the form and sculpting surface detail in ZBrush Painting surface textures in ZBrush Setting up a production-quality full-body rig in Maya Keyframing basic walk and run cycles Setting up a subsurface scattering shader network in Maya Rendering the finished animation for more information please contact 3DWorld Magazine |
| Pixologic™ Interviews: Pendulum Studios' Patrick Switzer More Pendulum Studios interviewing power! In addition to our interview with executives Robert Taylor and Michael McCormick (found here), we also had the opportunity to speak with Character Artist Patrick Switzer. He went into great detail about the use of ZBrush® at Pendulum. Enjoy! |
| Pixologic™ Interviews: Pendulum Studios We've recently had the opportunity to go face to face with Robert Taylor (President & Executive Producer) and Michael McCormick (VP & Director of 3D) from Pendulum Studios. The result is an interview that's a little different from most of what we've done in the past: there's video, too! |
| Featured Member: Intervain (Magdalena Dadela) For this week's interview, we're pleased to bring you a brief visit with Magdalena Dadela, better known here at ZBC as Intervain. In addition to being an exceptionally talented figure artist, she's a really fun person to talk to. |
| Pixologic™ Interviews: ILM Creature Modeler Frank Gravatt (Spiderwick Chronicles) Check out our interview with ILM creature modeler Frank Gravatt and see how he uses ZBrush® to create some of the characters in The Spiderwick Chronicles. |
| Featured Member: Lil'sister (David Giraud) This week we've interviewed David Giraud (known here at ZBC as Lil'sister). A perusal of his ZBC Gallery shows tremendous attention to detail, and absolute mastery of the human form. David was also one of the beta testers for ZBrush 3, and his efforts have helped make ZBrush 3.x what it is today. |
| Computer Arts ZBrush® Review (PDF) Over an extremely short time, ZBrush® has become one of the top professional 3D modelling tools, while simultaneously building up a reputation among non-experts as an approachable and intuitive package. Using a combination of ergonomic brushes and tools, ZBrush® enables you to sculpt and texture organic models containing millions of polygons in real-time. You can then output your finished creation for rendering in your favourite 3D package. |
| FXGuide.com Interviews Jim Berney, the visual effects supervisor of Sony Pictures Imageworks about the movie "I am legend" (PDF) Texture painters provided such details as veins, scars, and scabs, which also helped create variation in the 43 hero creatures, and modelers working in ZBrush® added displacement and bump maps. |
| GameDev.net Reviews ZBrush 3.1 (PDF) Well, it has finally arrived and it was worth the wait. ZBrush 3.1 is stronger and more innovative than ever. ZBrush® is a revolutionary software package that enables digital artists to enhance images and objects using a set of unique brushes and sculpting tools. |
| 3DTotal interview with Artist Fred Bastide (PDF) "I like to conceptualize a model with this kind of material, because it’s very efficient in obtaining a good basic shape quickly. However, recently, I’ve discovered that ZBrush® offers the same type of approach." |
| CGChannel interview with artist Taron Baysal (PDF)
"ZBrush® is the major contributer to my ability to deliver the kind of work I do within the kind of time and quality it's done. I mean, I don't mean to flatter myself there, I'm really blaming ZBrush® for it all!" |
| Developers working on Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed, talk design and
production (PDF) Modeling the characters was done in ZBrush. |
| New ZBrush® Training DVD: Zack Petroc's "The Digital Maquette" Volume 2 (PDF) Watch as Zack develops a character from a low-resolution mesh, and shows how to pose a character using the new Transpose tool in ZBrush 3.1 |
| Gameartisans.org Competition Winner Marcus Dublin: "I took my low mesh into ZBrush® and sculpted the high resolution details. I used ZBrush® to generate parts of the normal maps, I find doing this to be a pretty fast and an efficient workflow. ZBrush's tool set provided me with the best high to low resolution work flow for making this next generation game character. Thanks for making such an awesome tool for artists!" |
| The Making of Krommath ZBrush® Artist Scott Spencer gives us a closer look at Gental Giant studios and the making of "Krommath" a digital print made from ZBrush. |
| Video Interview with Ubisoft
Take a look at the making of "Assassin's Creed" Pixologic™ talks to: Brennan Priest, Technical Graphic Consultant David Giraud, Character Artist and more. |
| ZBrush.fr The official French ZBrush® Community Alexis Flammand and the ZBrush.fr team have done a fantastic job with the new ZBrush® French community, this includes ZBrush 3 French documentation. It is a place all French ZBrushers must check out. Take a look. |
| CG Society Interviews ILM artist Geoff Campbell on Pirates of the Caribbean "At world's end" (PDF) That complexity is particularly evident in the last two Pirates films. For ‘Dead Man’s Chest’, Campbell supervised the eight modelers who sculpted Davy Jones and his crew, working in Autodesk’s Maya to build bodies, ILM’s Zeno to create face shapes, and in Pixologic’s ZBrush® to cover the creatures with briny details. For ‘World’s End’ |
| CGChannel Interviews Ubisoft Artist Sebastien LeGrain (PDF) "The ability to pose a character in less than 2 minutes will surely mark another gap in the CG field." "My program that use most frequently is Zbrush. It’s the central element of all my work. I mostly use the other soft as support, to do my base shapes, but everything else is done in Zbrush: proportion tweaking, high res sculpting, texturing, rendering etc… It’s an extremely powerful program that allow me to do things that I couldn’t do in other 3D packages and it fits to next gen game constraints regarding technology, quality and timeline." |
| June 2007 - CGSociety Interview with Creature Model Supervisor Geoff Campbell at ILM ILM used ZBrush® to cover the creatures with briny details for Pirates of the Caribbean ‘At World’s End’. As for Campbell’s personal work, he’s excited about the relatively inexpensive 3D printers and about creating sculptures using ZBrush® at home. |
| June 2007 - 3DTotal.com interviews Rodrigue Pralier ZBrush® artist at EA Montreal "Since I have discovered this software I can’t stop being impressed by all the possibilities it offers. The high level of details that we can have now is amazing and the bigger textures and the normal map allow us to bring all these details in game. Almost every two weeks the overall skill of the artists rises up. It’s amazing!" |
| May 2007 - CG Channel: Interview with ZBrush® Artist Sébastien Legrain. "ZBrush 3 is a total blast… In addition with the visual improvements (advanced realtime shaders and shadows, perspective, cavity), they add a lot of awesome sculpting features: layers, mutli objects sculpting, a brushes that projects volumes on another surface, and one of the most impressive: the ability to pose an entire character in less than 2 minutes.Zbrush 3 will surely mark another big gap within the CG field." |
| May 21, 2007 - ZBrush 3 Review: The Revolution Continues Scott Spencer reveals how ZBrush 3 stands ready to further shake the paradigms of digital art and asset creation. |
| May 2007 - CGSociety.com feature story: The release of ZBrush 3
“Since I began using it I have not had a single day when it didn't enter into my pipeline in at least some way. Pinpointing my favorite new feature is difficult, between Transpose, poly paint, and the new topology/extraction tools, creating an entire character in one application is not only possible, but can be done with ease.” - Ian Joyner - Blur Studios |
| December - The 2005 CG Retrospective (PDF) "This year, the CG community voted for the continued prevalence of ZBrush® to take the number 2 spot in the CG Top 20!" |
| July 2005 - ZBrush® at ILM (PDF) "Industrial Light & Magic, a Lucasfilm Ltd. company, selected ZBrush® for its unparalleled ability to handle large datasets, its Pixol technology and production tested displacement-mapping abilities." |
| May 2005 - The Future of Game Animation (PDF) "No other software allows you to model organically with such an immense amount of detail." |
| December 2004 - The 2004 CG Society Retrospective (PDF) "... ZBrush® has come a long way since its inception in 1999, and it is now rapidly changing the way that we model in 3D... " |
| December 2004 - The Hybrid tool for the Hybrid Artist (PDF) "...That is the power of ZBrush 2.0. It gets the artist closer to the act of creation: an act that we have separated ourselves from by wires and microchips and insane math and complicated procedures and segregated departments... " |
| October 2004 - Indside Computer Graphics Z2 Review (PDF) "Pixologic™ has taken the concepts of 3D, infused it with a feeling of sculpting and created and arsenal of tools that set it above and beyond... Honestly I feel that ZBrush 2 can bridge the gap between a traditional media artist and the DCC artist. " |
| July 2004 - Computer Arts Magazine (PDF) "ZBrush® from Pixologic™ has been around for a few years now, but it remains a remarkable graphics program that really has no equal – or even poor copy, for that matter. Version 2 introduces more 3D tools and features to the already impressive set, making the tool evenly split between a 2.5D painting program and full 3D modelling application. In working practice though, it's both, because many of the workflows in ZBrush® make use of the 2.5D canvas and the polygon models. "ZBrush 2 is a stunning 3D modelling package, and should be on every character artist's list of products to buy .... it sets a standard for high-detail polygon modelling. "ZBrush® is the single best organic 3D modelling system yet invented. [5 out of 5 stars]" |
| November 2001 - PC Review Online (PDF) "ZBrush® is simply one of the most exciting software packages we have had the privilege of reviewing in a long time." |
| December 2001 - Creative-3D.net (PDF) "Pixologic's ZBrush 1.23B is one the most innovative and creative digital tools to appear in a very long time. It's difficult - if not impossible to pigeon hole this program into any existing category. To call it a paint program does not do it justice, to call it a 3D modeler, procedural shader, or 2D Painter also doesn't fit. ZBrush® is all the above, and more." |
| June 2001 - Macworld (PDF) "No matter how much graphics experience you have, odds are you've never seen anything quite like ZBrush 1.1. Part 3-D modeler and renderer, part paint program, this unique application lets you easily create complex images with sophisticated color and lighting effects." |
| Spring 2001 - EFX Art and Design (Vol. 8, Edition 31) (PDF) "ZBrush® is a wonderful new addition to the digital artist's toolbox. The program is fast and responsive, and for being only version 1.2, it is very well constructed and quite stable." |
| December 2000 - In-Depth (PDF) "I like programs that I can open up and make something, anything, happen within the first few clicks. ZBrush® doesn't disappoint." |
| November/December 2000 - Mensa International Journal, "Smart Software," (PDF) "In a short while you will realize you can't live without this program." |
| April 2000 - Design Graphics (PDF) "Even when painting complex structures like 3D pixol hair, I could not slow ZBrush® down." |
| April 2000 - Computer Graphics World, "Fresh Paint," (PDF) "2D artists can create 3D looks without techno mumbo jumbo." |
| April 2000 - Computer Arts (Great Britain) (PDF) "ZBrush® is an excellent application, that will be of interest to professionals and hobbyists alike." |
| January 2000 - Computer Graphics World, "Spotlight Products," (PDF) "ZBrush® could be the texture-painting product for the videogame industry." |
| December 1999 - Mensa International Journal, "Smart Software," (PDF) "It is fun, easy to use and a great tool for artists." |
| November 1999 - 3D Magazine, (PDF) "The ultimate expression of 2D/3D convergence ... was the debut of Pixologic™ ZBrush." |