Zbrush for Bipeds Videos

[cannedmushrooms]

I produced a series of videos for people that need help making a Biped out of Zspheres. It shows you how to use shapes rather than mash allot of material on a mesh using the Zadd Zsub. Also touches base on modeling from a reference and making multi sub objects out of Zspheres.



Only Zbrush was used. No external programs;)

Reference does not count lol.

Hopefully it helps. It was probably the most Challenging Video I made. Because of the problems with the rig, at first. If you don't have a good rig your sculpt will not survive The pose!!!
Lesson_Biped1.jpg
Lesson_Biped2.jpg
Lesson_Biped3.jpg
Lesson_Biped4.jpg



http://www.houseoftutorials.com/page2.html

[cannedmushrooms]

WIP post can be viewed here
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=41548

[X-TrEmE]

Thx Jason, what a pleasure is having your site..with all those tutorials on...Wonderful!

Going to download 'em right away!


Cheers

[3Point14]

I would have expected more people to thank you by now but I guess they are too busy learning from them to reply......Thanks a bunch! :tu: X5

[cannedmushrooms]

Thanks its NP.
Was also going to add that when you make your hands there is another formula that works really good. Make the Base Zsphere 3/ 5 / 2 For the palm and 0 / 0 / 0 for all the fingers. when you get to the Rig part of the video you will understand. Both forumlas work good. Just 3 /5 /2 make a little lower poly.

[brushman78]

Jason
Thanks for the Biped tutorials they are great. Easy to follow.
Al

[motolov]

Thank you very much it is very reasurring thta there are still a few good tutorials out there

Thanks very much

[SNARK]

Hi, Jason.

Thank you for the tutorials. I am going through your biped movie that uses Moldy Tool 2. You say to place all the components under ZPlugs but in your video you go to ZScripts to load it. Am I missing something?

Thanks!

~S.~

[cannedmushrooms]

Not really moldy did not have an autoload that shows up as a button in Zbrush. You have to go fetch it manually using the open script. Not sure if that has been fixed but the version I was using was missing it.;) Just by placing something in Zplugs don't always make it auto load. I'm totally Zscript Stupid so I won't try to answer why that it don't autoload;)
Just use moldy as a crutch until you get the Feel of Zbrush with Bipeds. Its more of a tool than a end all solution. ;)
Enjoy the lessons

[SNARK]

Thanks, Jason.

Keep up the good work. I get it now.

~S.~

[SNARK]

Jason,

When I try to load Moldy into Z3, Z3 crashes. Is this a problem on my end or is Z3 not ready for Moldy?

~S.~

[cannedmushrooms]

I'll try to answer that question without laughing

Nope I'm laughing


Na its not going to handle moldy;)

But instead of using moldy try using image planes from the wiki;)
Until I get a tut around for image planes

[SNARK]

Thanks, Jason.

I was going through your 'Perfect Biped' zsphere vid to see how much of it works in Z3 but I have lost your reference images of the female that came with the original download. Where can I go to find those?

Thanks.

~S.~

[cannedmushrooms]

http://www.houseoftutorials.com/nolinking/bipedfiles.zip

I will be intrested if they work with the wiki tut let me know;)

[SNARK]

Jason,

The images work as planned (as textures in layers for reference) however, when I get to the point of selecting a zsphere for the root sphere and drawing it out, the 'xyz' button in Transform/Modifiers is greyed out so that it can neither be turned on nor off. Do you know why?

Thanks!

~S.~

[weyvin]

Hey Jaz,

Thanks a lot for all the videos!
I haven't been through all of them yet but they sure are very helpful!
Especially the Topology one! ;)

Cheers Man!

Kevin

[cannedmushrooms]

weird they locked out the xyz modifiers on sub meshes.
Wow what were they thinking there i wonder.

[b00m]

thanks for all those lovely tuts

[SNARK]

Jason,

About the 'xyz modifiers' - I noticed that when in preview mode, the xyz modifiers are available (not 'greyed out') but when you return to the zsphere view, they become unavailable. Also, I'm sure you've noticed that there is no 'Accurate Curve Mode' or 'Smoothing Curve' function.

~S.~

[mihoss]

thanks jason ,i ve been following all your tutorials and technics,in zbrush and maya,and i must to say. bravo.bravo,bravo
regards

[SNARK]

Hey, Jason.

Could you look at this thread I've posted (with model file and image) and give me your opinion of the problem? It's a zsphere biped that draws out with a 'blank' mesh.

Thanks!

~S.~

http://209.132.96.165/zbc/showthread.php?p=377810#post377810

[Atwooki]

Hi Jason

This is WAAY overdue; but just to say a big THANK YOU for doing such a great job on all the video tutorials you've put out there :)

Excellent stuff :tu:

Chris

[SNARK]

Jason,

I’ve noticed that after I crop/fill a texture with a reference image (such as a front view of a character) and draw out a figure tool over it, the interface becomes sluggish, as if the figure tool is too large to manipulate smoothly. Do you know why this is? I wonder if it relates to another question I have in general about scale in ZBrush. Why are ZBrush meshes so huge when imported into Maya? Is there a way in ZBrush (as there is in Maya) to establish a calibrated scale of units that can insure the meshes appear at the same scale from program to program? Just wondering.

Thanks!

~S.~