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Making of Nox video

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

I’m sure most of you have seen the video of the making of N0X-2292 part2 by Slipgatecentral.
http://vimeo.com/5734031
I was hoping someone could clarify the steps he takes in ZBrush to isolate the exoskeltal portion or the model. It looks like he…

  1. Subdivides the model
  2. Imports a mask
  3. a) Hides the masked portion and deletes the rest?
    b) Creates polygroups based on masking and creates edges loops?
    c) I have no idea.

What is confusing me is that you can’t do any of those things with multiple subdivisions and in the video it looks like he hides on the high res version but winds up exporting a lower res version with nice clean edges. I CAN’T FIGURE IT OUT!!!

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

MrB

#2

His masks were guides for him to “retopologize”. He had already gone through
the process of retopology, and he was basically switching subtools on the video.
Awesome video huh? I’ve studied it pretty closely too. Its a good watch.

#3

Thanks so much. That was driving me crazy. That is a great video tutorial, I wish I could model half as well as that guy.