I have a model with multiple parts a face, a body and limbs. Each of the parts has its own set of UVs and maps. I need the entire model as one single sub tool with all of its textures and maps baked into it flawlessly. The problem I'm having is this: Before I can merge the parts into one sub tool I need to apply the textures and alphas to the sub tools individually, remember they all have their own maps so in order to get every model part looking like this: I need to raise their poly counts to somewhere around 9 million each so they can retain the details on them. Zbrush does not like merging 9 million + poly sub tools into one another so I can't simply detail them and put them together. I don't know how to go about solving this. I know how to apply the texture as poly paint and the alpha to the surface of my model but I don't know how I can merge my model together with all the applied textures and alphas since my Zbrush will explode. Also since Zbrush doesn't support more than one texture on a single sub tool I'm at a huge loss as I'm unable to simply apply each map to the single sub tool and again, even if I could, the model wouldn't be able to be 50 million polys. I apologize since this is very complex and hard to word. My last thread had people confused on what I was trying to do. Any way anyone can help would be greatly appreciated.

Hey gang! Been lurking a while, but I just recently joined the community. I work mostly in 2D as a webcartoonist so 3D is a fun new challenge for me. ZBrush has totally opened my eyes! So here goes! Working on this selfie thing to get more familiar with the program and all that. Lots of dynamoooshing! Based on this silly sketch. And I recorded a timelapse: uPDevCk8z7Q

I grab some wip images when I was sculpting, I used these images for this Making Of, maybe I need apologize for my English first, I hope you can get what I mean with my bad English The first thing I was doing was searching references, I googled a lot of De Niro's pics and evaluate which one will be the best for DeNiro's look, first time I saw the black/white one I knew it was the one I was gonna do, I think it has a very fascinating express and can capture people's eyes quickly. Also I needed more reference especially at this age, it's not possible to find nice enough pictures on internet, so I decided to find a movie of him , Righteous Kill, and grab some very nice pictures of him ,especially the side view of him, and it's very close to his age in the black/white picture. For My experience, you should select 1 or 2 or 3 pictures for the main reference, and other pics just for finding forms and shape connections. 'cause pictures from internet always have very different focal length, and may lead you to the wrong place. In this case , I use those 3 for my main references. Next I was going to start to work on it. After the head was good, I started to wok on the hair. I used maya hair system for hair. The method I modeled hair was base on layers, first I did a general shape of hair with some polygon planes. and then I started to split those meshes to more detailed hair planes. I analyzed the photo and found that at least he has 3 different kind of hair, 1 is black, 1 is grey ,and 1 is white, so there's at least 3 layers. After this I added some messy hair, and some little hair at hairline area. You can see the main layers of hair I did: By the way, the hair shader for black and grey were Vray hair shader3, but the white one is default hair shader. I found it's hard to get "white enough" look by Vray Hair shader3. Next is texture. I didn't spend much time on texture, 'cause it left little time there. The shader for skin is Vray Fast SSS2 shader. The last thing was lighting . It was simple setting, see blew: That's it Hope you like the work. PS, here's a Gif of my sculpting process. I have a Chinese version for the Making Of that I shared with my friends on my blog, if you're interesting in it, check it: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_88763aa90101h9wy.html

Hey! Just thought I would share the final game resolution character here too! The texturing part has been recorded as a timelapse in two parts on my youtube channel, if anyone is interested. Hope you like it guys cheers! She is 31k triangles I'll probablu model one of her weapon and do some cool poses soon, will update the thread then !

The winners of the 2014 GameArtisans Comicon Challenge have been announced! Those of you that have been following the various threads in our Comicon 2014 forum already know the incredible caliber of work that we have seen this year and how heavily ZBrush was utilized by the artists. Now we can see what the judges thought! Below you will find the 10 winners in the 3D category, along with links to each entry's thread here at ZBC. (Or if no ZBC thread is available, their GameArtisans page.) 1st Place Champion: Ballo's "Brainiac" ZBC Thread 2nd Place: joymepls' "Cyberpunk Robin" Entry Page 3rd Place: Stepanchikov's "Judge Dredd" Entry Page 4th Place: Danpetro's "Joker" ZBC Thread 5th Place: CgNara's "Hawkgirl" ZBC Thread 6th Place: Baj Singh's "Deathstroke" Entry Page 7th Place: Bogdanbl4's "Iron Girl" Entry Page 8th Place: calebNefzen's "Viking Batman" ZBC Thread 9th Place: Ometto's "Doppelganger Spiderman" Entry Page 10th Place: Slava Gedich's "Guyver" ZBC Thread Please join us in congratulating the champions! Simply spectacular work, one and all! With so many amazing entries, it had to be extremely difficult for the judges to settle on the final 10 winners. If you haven't seen the other entries, here's a very small sample: Want to see more? We recommend that you spend some time browsing through the GameArtisans Comicon Challenge 2014 Forum here at ZBC! It is definitely worth the time. While most artists chose to post in that forum, there were a few that decided to use their sketchbooks instead. To help you out, we thought we'd provide links to those posts as well. They are listed here under their user names and in no particular order: molossus * OrganizedChaos * Starkie * ZamM90 Duncan Fraser * nimlot * mr.BananaS * renmanuel89 * Dantert digitalmind * rdubya82 * ellient * gumboyaya Enjoy!

Hello everyone !! thanks for your comments, I'm really glad you like my works so here's a new work I did, it's some kind of mutated snake creature thing xD anyway, I did a little breakdown of it to give you an idea about how I make my illustrations, also I will post some WIPs of it soon. Hope you like it

ZBRUSH HELMET DESIGN with Joseph Drust This video series has been formulated to provide you with focused, and easily digestible content with one purpose in mind, to create a futuristic helmet with ZBrush. Joseph Drust will take you through each phase of the design process, including Reference, Base Meshes, Procedural Processes, Sculpting, Hard Surface Detailing, and final surface detailing. Get Started with your lessons, and prepare to be wowed! FINAL HELMET DESIGN CONCEPT VARIATIONS COLOR VARIATIONS TOPIC #1 REFERENCE #1. Reference-Introduction #2. Reference-Using Reference TOPIC #2 BASE MESHES #1. Base Meshes-Introduction #2. Base meshes-Creating a BaseMesh TOPIC #3 PROCEDURAL PROCESSES #1. Procedural Processes-Introduction #2. Procedural Processes-Extract #3. Procedural Processes-Morph Target #4. Procedural Processes-Panel Loops Check back regularly as we will be posting more videos, and topics in the weeks to come!

Hello everyone this is one of my personal projects, a demon lord, I try different skin shaders and more colourful texturing. The render was done entirely in zbrush and the compositing in photoshop This artwork is also featured in digital art masters 9.

Hi guys, finally found some time to move forward with my hobbit sculpt the concept from Vinod Rams that inspired me: I wasn't so fan of my last render, so I gave it a try in keyshot That fellow haunted me for months, I needed to see how it would look like in color The above render is built in Photoshop with polypaint and multipasses in Zbrush, no additional painting BPR breakdown coming soon Hope you like it