Tutorial Review 1: DVD sculpting a female bust in Zbrush

In this first tutorial review I will begin by a DVD from a famous artist in the Zbrush world, Ryan Kingslien. I think this guy has made a lot for the digital sculpting so it seems normal to begin by one of its work. Tutorial Name : Sculpting a female… Continue »

The Standard, Inflat and Magnify Brushes

Sometime the exact role of each brush is not so clear…in the Brush Lab I will try to give some explanations about few ones, hoping it could help someone! For this first Brush Lab  let’s explore these three very usefull and common brushes : Standard, Inflat and magnify. Firstly let’s… Continue »

New challenge on 3DTotal

Since few monthes the challenges on 3D Total forum are separated by category, sculpting, game aprt, speed modelling, 2D art,etc. But for the June/July challenge they came back to a unified one, and the theme is very promising : Movie Mashup. I quote the idea : « You are required to… Continue »

Sculpting challenges

There are plenty of sculpting challenge on cg forum to develop you skills. You should definitely try one, you will learn a lot. On 3dTotal forum you will find each month a new challenge with prizes : http://forums.3dtotal.com/ Continue »

Abstract things

Zbrush can also be perfect to create abstract drawings. Select a radial symetry, test some matcap, and let your pen draw all alone. Here the edges have been slightly accentuated with photoshop. Continue »

Tutorial Review 1: DVD sculpting a female bust in Zbrush

In this first tutorial review I will begin by a DVD from a famous artist in the Zbrush world, Ryan Kingslien. I think this guy has made a lot for the digital sculpting so it seems normal to begin by one of its work. Tutorial Name : Sculpting a female… Continue »

The Standard, Inflat and Magnify Brushes

Sometime the exact role of each brush is not so clear…in the Brush Lab I will try to give some explanations about few ones, hoping it could help someone! For this first Brush Lab  let’s explore these three very usefull and common brushes : Standard, Inflat and magnify. Firstly let’s… Continue »

New challenge on 3DTotal

Since few monthes the challenges on 3D Total forum are separated by category, sculpting, game aprt, speed modelling, 2D art,etc. But for the June/July challenge they came back to a unified one, and the theme is very promising : Movie Mashup. I quote the idea : « You are required to… Continue »

Sculpting challenges

There are plenty of sculpting challenge on cg forum to develop you skills. You should definitely try one, you will learn a lot. On 3dTotal forum you will find each month a new challenge with prizes : http://forums.3dtotal.com/ Continue »

Abstract things

Zbrush can also be perfect to create abstract drawings. Select a radial symetry, test some matcap, and let your pen draw all alone. Here the edges have been slightly accentuated with photoshop. Continue »

The Standard, Inflat and Magnify Brushes

Sometime the exact role of each brush is not so clear…in the Brush Lab I will try to give some explanations about few ones, hoping it could help someone! For this first Brush Lab  let’s explore these three very usefull and common brushes : Standard, Inflat and magnify. Firstly let’s… Continue »

Welcome to the Sculpt Lab!

On the Sculpt Lab you will find tips, ressources , tutorial ,  discussions, and so much more, about digital sculpting. We will focus on digital sculpting made with the software Zbrush from pixologic…. …. BUT, as digital sculpting is just a part of the workflow for animation or illustration, we… Continue »

How to begin with Zbrush

So what do you need to start creating your own digital sculpts? Step 1: the sculpting software First you need a software… several software dedicated to sculpting exists, the two principals one being Zbrush from Pixologic and Mudbox from Autodesk. You have also 3Dcoat and several smaller ones. You can… Continue »

Abstract things

Zbrush can also be perfect to create abstract drawings. Select a radial symetry, test some matcap, and let your pen draw all alone. Here the edges have been slightly accentuated with photoshop. Continue »

Sculpting challenges

There are plenty of sculpting challenge on cg forum to develop you skills. You should definitely try one, you will learn a lot. On 3dTotal forum you will find each month a new challenge with prizes : http://forums.3dtotal.com/ Continue »