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#1

Fresh out the box, have fun as I record the new shiny things in Zbrush 4 and survive the upgrade.

So many things!

Hopefully this player will autoupdate as I add new videos too youtube.

[youtubecp]/cp/vjVQa1PpcFPPgCl3ikTOXvxdwMCesWcGxxpmie0LX_U=[/youtubecp]

Also the playlist in case you want to subscribe or read the entire title of the video

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=1EEE9B16E1AE1CCE

#2

Sweet it updates !

Enjoy

#3

Thanks for the tuts :+1: hope theres more to come

#4

thanks a lot, waiting for more

#5

Added the playlist link to the top post.

Don’t forget to hit the > button on the player from time to time.

Or subscribe to the playlist

Added Layers and Subtool pallet to the mix

#6

hey jason congrats on your new videos for zbrush 4 happy that your making training videos for zbrush4 since there is really none out yet hope to see on the zbrush forum…

hope your family is doing great and congrats on your new addition to the family.. and yes in case you are wondering this is the same person that makes everything from a cube or a sphere..lol and if thats not a help maybe this will [http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?p=711510#post711510](http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?p=711510#post711510) and yes i have now started expanding with other things besides cubes..i have had to upgrade to intous 4 recently because i stayed with a friend up north for a week and his dog chewed up everything when we were gone so i have been trying to get the hang of the intous4 so far i really love the improvement in the sensitivity i also got it because i want to get into digital painting.. look forward to learning zbrush 4 with you.. i had one question do you think by any chance in the future you might do anything for modo because i recently got it to render out realistic renders of my zbrush work but have not yet got the hang of it yet form what i hear goz will make this easier, but at the same time i would like to learn the modeling side of things as well.. you are fortunate to get your update so fast im still waiting on my email registration, haven't heard from you in a while hope everything's good with you,, you have been a major help to me in learning photoshop, zbrush, i wanted to ask do you by any chance have anything on digital painting that might help me i would like to scan my wildlife drawings in to the computer and paint over top of them but all i really have ever known well is zbrush, i have been doing wildlife art for a long time and i would like to paint on top of the drawings.. thank you so much again for all the help that you have given me over the years ..it has been greatly appreciated. :)
#7

Ya Troy I totally remember you, that Adobe Connect channel we ran out of this place was great for awhile. In fact now I’m teaching at IADT using the commercial version of the software with the same venue but now with 19 students at a time. Great part time gig. I’m already teaching my kid 3d I bought her like a 1000 blocks :wink: So far shes adapting well to a more spacial friendly toy and enjoys a good block tossing at the dog from time to time. Hes learned to dodge, so it’s all good. (Back off PETA)

But other than the day to day life, modo is something I was started to look at but I got side-railed by a few commercial projects this summer and I am working on a 6 DVD set that will replace textbooks that are not broken up in lesson based format. [Modeling 1 (Maya 2011)](http://kunaki.com/MSales.asp?PublisherId=124955&PP=1) Modeling 2 (Zbrush 4) Texture Render and Lighting (maya 2011 and Zbrush 4) Animation 1 (Maya 2011) Fundamentals of gaming (Unity Game engine) (only 8 lessons in that title) (completed) (also on youtube) Photoshop CS5 (completed) (preview of this below in a link)

The completed DVD’s will be placed on youtube in a lower res and the high res ones with all lesson files will be here

Of course I never even thought of how hard this would because everything must have a final project due at the end and each lesson and there is 15 lessons per disk. (hmmm yes that is 15 * 6 titles * 10 vids each lesson = wow) Taken me 3 months to almost complete modeling 1. So ya modo isn't even in my vocab. However I do have alot on Digital Painting because its my second love outside 3d. Digital Sketching here (more of a concept style to Painting) [http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=1216BF99EBA3D6C2](http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=1216BF99EBA3D6C2) Photoshop CS5 (this has everything from photography to Concept art) [http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=863632FFAE28750E](http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=863632FFAE28750E) That should keep you busy (O - like forever) Glad Zbrush 4 hit the market and this series (the one in post1) will practice me up on figuring out 15 lessons in the software while not just focusing on my commercial ventures. So other than that great seeing you again. You'll love concept art with the Intuos 4. I sleep with mine! (TMI) seriously I would use it to drive my car if they ever developed a plugin for it, or a WII remote hmm...........

Wow nice Z sketches BTW Defiantly expanded out the box :wink:

#8

Thanks for the ZBrush4 vids, these are starting to satisfy my curiosity.

#9

Good stuff, thanks for taking the time to make and upload these.

It seems that the render pass/ Photoshop lessons are out of order in the player?

#10

Thanks for posting the videos. Would you post a video on using the subsurface scattering feature. I don’t use the ZBrush renderer much at all, but have been trying to create an sss render, and been getting terrible results. I have read some documentation on Pixologic’s website, but no matter what settings I use, it looks like hell. Any suggestions, or hints would be helpful. :cry:

#11

hey jason yeah the adobe connect thing was great was thinking we should start it up again so i suggested it here http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=92878&highlight=ventrilo hopefully there’s interest and we can schedule a definite schedule that we can have it open to the zbrush community… till pixologic comes out with the whole zcast thing that was mentioned here http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=036912 would have been a great teaching aid and learning tool for the zbrush community… thats great jason that now you teaching with the commercial version wow 19 students is alot, so far i have been teaching a couple of friends and there taking i=to it pretty well i have taught 8 people just this year alone… been trying to get them to post there work here but there to scared and afraid of what people might say so i told them i was just like that and said the more you post the better you will get, which i think is true considering my early work…lol… thats great news jason that your teaching your 3d already im sure when she advances you can get her in to legos and then kinects. thats funny that shes taking to the old block throwing in time who knows she might hit the from time to time and then the dog will really have to be on his toes,lol… i actually just went up to new york to go see my newly born neice who is a month and a half old, cant believe im uncle already where did the time go, so im hopeing she shows interest in art im so excited about all the things i could teach her maybey who knows maybe in time she could become a member of the zbrush community…

yeah modo i have just started getting in to i like what i see people are doing with it and would like to get comfortable with it, i hope your able to maybe do tutorials on it in the future would be a great asset to zbrush for rendering… thats great that your working on digital tutorials to get rid of a lot of the clutter and torn pages, not mention the occasional missing book that happened alot when i was going to school…

wow thats great that you have done all that with maya i hope to go through them when i have the time to i have been forever wanting to rig and animate and breath life into my zbrush creations and render them out with nice lighting. you really have a lot of work ahead of you to do all those tutorials im sure they will turn out great…:slight_smile:

wow thats great jason these will help out so much cant wait to look at them have been wanting to learn digital painting for so long might be time to upgrade my hardware hae been hearing alot about the new cintiqs they look real cool for getting in to painting sketching and sculpting, actually in the video for it they even show zbrush being used on it. but yeah i hope my painting and drawing skill will improve over time as my sculpting has improved over time.:wink:

yeah photography has been one of my passions for a while especially wildlife photography actually we have close friend of the family that used to shoot for national geographic and he really got me interested in taking it up so not to long ago i bought a 15 megapixel rebel really like iit but would like to get some better lenses for it get a whole lot of blurring with it was wondering if maybe you had any suggestions of what i should get for lenses to take good pictures one for close up to medium distance, and the other for far away for really zooming in would like to get some better lenses because im just using the stock 55 millimeter lens right now…

its really great hearing from you also hope everything’s going well with family and happy to hear that your teaching more on the side im sure the students are learning alot…yeah i know what you mean i bring mine with me every where it is great friends cant ever understand why they invite me over to play games i bring my laptop and iintous 4, i guess its in artist thing they will never understand…lol… yeah driving car with it would be interesting im sure marcus civis could help with that…yeah just recently got a wii because friends wanted to get me in to playing it heard you can program the wii trying to figure out how t mod it so i can use it with zbrush in combination with the intoous4 as separate hotkeys, thinking about maybe getting a custom keypad stick seems like it would do wonders for shortcuts and choosing brushes…

thanks jason happy you like them have been trying really hard to improve in all areas of artistic expression everything from sculpting to painting to 3d and drawing… so hopefully they will improve progress hoping to maybe one day get a job in 3d as a concept artist or maybe a wildlife artist if i get good enough.

i updated my sketch thread added some traditional stuff this time http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?p=724870#post724870, im actually working on another dog head right now but im also doing it in pottery clay using it till i find something better to work with but the grog is terrible in it. but its the only kind of clay they sell around here so im thinking about ordering online for something different once this runs out, but yeah im really enjoying sculpting and not having to worry about topology but now the problem is im dealing with gravity and its hard not to get the sculpture to stop sagging.

but its great hearing from you and look forward to learning and watching all your videos thanks again for being a great friend and well a vital asset to the zbrush community in the area of education and teaching… sorry that your efforts continue to go unnoticed by the pixologic company i hope one day you are recognized for all your hard work and determination… wish you the best as always friend…:wink: