Video Lessons In Zbrush (cannedmushrooms style)

[GulagOne]

thanks for these lessons. They are helping me out a ton.

[cannedmushrooms]

This video is great for peeps that are using maya to produce sculptable meshes in Zbrush. It's a fast way to stitch together Forms of the body and start seeing large masses as shapes.




New and improved audio also (thanks santa for new audio mixer)

Happy Holidays!

[slashpot]

Keep 'em coming mate!
like so many others I am indebted to you for your generosity and patience. Your brilliant method of teaching makes yours a beloved name among ZBrush beginners, and quite a few pros I bet. I still check into your Veoh site when I want to brush up on a subject that is giving me grief. This lesson set is one of the great ZBrush resources, and should probably be on the disc.

Many thanks from one of your multitude of grateful students.

[SNARK]

Hey, Jason!

It seems you have completed your migration to Veoh. Great! Congratulations. Now, I have no complaints, ever, about your willingness to teach, to share, so anything I offer is simply in the spirit of comment. The biggest difference I see in your Veoh presentations and your Camtasia downloads is in the area of visual clarity. In your personal downloads the typefaces in the menus were crystal clear and easily read. The typefaces in the Veoh films are quite blurred. And while I can figure out the clicks and selections from familiarity with the program, some noobs might be frustrated by an inability to read the text in the tool bars and menus. Minor point but I thought you might want an objective opinion on appearance.

I am new to Veoh so my ensuing comments might not make sense. I take that chance. When played in Full-Screen mode, there appear to be no ‘Play’ controls. When I hit ‘Pause’ the video stops and restarts from the beginning. There is no scroll bar. Because I have ‘Real Player’ on my machine I am always afforded the option of downloading to Real Player. So, I do. Because I have ‘Play’ controls at Full-Screen.

Final Note. I have looked at a lot of books and articles and forum tutorials but your videos have helped me the most. I think this is because your teachings are a ‘Living Document’ that you continuously update to stay current with the software and your personal experience with it. So, a big 'Thank You' for your effort and experimentation. I have benefitted greatly and look forward to the New Year and your continued success.

Merry Christmas! (In a non-denominational kind of way)

~S.~

[cannedmushrooms]

thanks snark and slash

Ya snark they have this feature in camtasia that lets you export WMV at a higher RES but it says I need to install Windows media encoder. SO away I went to download it, and install it, and after beating my head against the keyboard for a few days trying to get to work I realize that the button is just a fancy way to turn on my neighbors bathroom light on and off. I placed an order to santa for camtasia 5.0 which hopefully exports at a higher res

Merry Christmas to you also, Ala be praised, and shalome (did a miss anything there heh)

[KyHighlander]

Jason,

Thanks so much. These videos are great! I watched most of the skull video, but accidentally hit the tabs in the top of the veoh screen and now will have to start again. LOL but that is not a problem cause I probably will catch something I missed the first time.

Keep it up, your filling a hole that needed to be filled. By any chance you wouldn't have any videos planned for Cinema 4D? LOL Just asking.

KY

[SNARK]

Jason,

Quick note: Your Veoh lesson on 'SSS' (the first one) won't play past the 12:17 mark when it should play until 16:40.

~S.~

[cannedmushrooms]

I uploaded it over the top of the old one, snark that always seems to repair that stuff.
I downloaded it just to make sure it plays all the way through now

You were right about the clarity of the menus. Trying some new wmv settings to clear that up a bit

[DDS]

wow. You seriously rock man. I can't believe you do all this free of charge. I'm enjoying some of them a lot!

[SinisterUrge]

Thanks very much for all the many hours of free videos Jason!! Your teaching is in valuable

[XxCLUBZxX]

hey nice vids helped me alot and i was wondering if there a topo tool on ZBrush 3?

[RAMWolff]

Hiya,

I was watching your tutorial on UVMapping in Blender... have you considered using UVMapper Pro?? Upon loading your object, layered or not, into UVMapper Pro, as long as it's able to read your various layers in some way, you can turn off and save out different UV's or create a huge map by moving them around. I've only begun to scratch the surface of this tool. It's not that expensive and there is a free version so you can see if it's going to mess any of the vertices up (which I don't think you can as long as you don't resave the obj file)

If you don't know about this program then check it out here: http://uvmapper.com/index.html

[KyHighlander]

there is a free uv mapping program called mapper magic or some such. works very well, i've used it a couple times. You can move the verts around in the free version of it.

[cannedmushrooms]

lesson 17 and 18 for the topotools rundown on a head.

Thats a pretty cool program wolf I've played with it before on my quest for a UV program worth its salt.
I'm a pretty huge blender fan. I really need to update that video since i have figured out how to hide various parts of the model as you do UVS to make UVING all the easyier. Then Unhide it at the end to have the whole UV set displaying. Great for Grouped models.

[RAMWolff]

Glad you found the link useful, to at least look. I myself can not get the hang of Blender but then again I'm also ADDA so my mind is always 3 steps ahead so I don't "get" something pretty quick it's not likely I'm going to stick with it too long. I've not had that issue with ZBrush so far. I dont' understand most of what it can do but I understand enough to keep me coming back for more!!

I have VeohTV and have downloaded as many of the tuts as it could find but I just seem to missing most of them. You go by cannedmushrooms and Jason Welsh, correct? I do most of my work in the Poser community so I'm very interested in texturing in ZBrush more than anything else. Eventually I want to get into morphs too but not much else. Modeling just overwhelms me too much and my mind thinks "too much" and I loose interest or get agravated with the process.... so.... I stick with what I truly love doing (working with color and texture). So if you have some vid tutorials by you or someone else that really gets in depth with all that I would be much obliged!

I love your contributions to the ZBrush community!! Your tutorials are nicely done and I like the quality of them. You have a nice strong voice with a bit humor to your teaching, keeps one going along learning away!!

All the best

Woffie!