Introducing ZBrush

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Amazon Exclusive:Eric Keller’s Top 10 Cool Uses for ZBrush

1. Blendshape Facial Targets: Create blendshape facial targets for characters for animation in Maya using ZBrush - it's fast and easy!

2. Tiling Textures: Use ZBrush to create tiling textures for 3D objects.

3. Normal and Displacement Maps: Use ZBrush to create normal and displacement maps - it's superior to Maya's native difference map generator.

4. Texture Maps: Paint texture maps directly on characters and 3D objects.

5. Illustrations: Craft amazing illustrations with ZBrush's 2.5D painting tools.

6. Compositing: Render separate passes of an object from ZBrush with different materials applied for compositing in Photoshop.

7. Sculpting: Add ZApplink to ZBrushes' sculpting power with Photoshop and Painter brushes.

8. Material Capture: Design specialized materials based on objects in photographs with ZBrush's Material Capture tool.

9. Modeling: Build digital models for 3D printing and fabrication.

10. Character Creation: Shape the most amazing characters and creatures possible using ZBrush's revolutionary digital sculpting tools.

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Product Description:
If you want to take advantage of one of the hottest CGI tools available, Introducing ZBrush is the perfect place to start. Professional Hollywood animator and ZBrush artist Eric Keller dispels any anxieties beginners might have by offering the careful, step-by-step instruction you need to soon feel right at home with this revolutionary software. Each chapter explains core concepts, then reinforces them with fun, hands-on tutorials that will amaze you with your growing ability to create hyper-detailed, realistic, organic sculptures on your computer.

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Customer Reviews

Rating: - Beyond the introduction
If you want to understand what pixols mean, this is "the" book. Follow along the exercises and there you are: Two and a half D is not that complicated...
Rating: - great resource
i have attempted to make my way through many a technical book regarding different aspects of 3dbut have yet to find one that is more approachable than Eric Keller's 'Introducing ZBrush'.It is written in such a way that it feels like Eric is over your shoulder gently guiding you through an interface that, at first glance, can be a little intimidating.Having worked solely in maya for the last 7 years i found the basic concepts of zbrush a little jarring at first.With the guidance of this book, ... Read More
Rating: - Amazing book
This is a great book for beginners in 3d, specifically modeling. I've had my share of video tutorials but having a physical book that i can take with me anywhere is priceless, anywhere i go i can keep on reading any particular subject i want to learn further.

The explanations are clear for beginners and intermediate users of Zbrush, might be simple stuff for advanced users but there's never too much information in any book, it comes with a CD which includes a 30 day trial of Zrbush 3.0 and ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent book!!
As a fifteen year veteran of the 3D art world, I can say that ZBrush is the revolution I've been waiting for, and the Introducing ZBrush book is fantastic!! I was able to complete projects within minutes of opening this book that would have taken hours, if not days using other apps.My wife was so impressed with what I created in so short a time, she asked to try...so, with absolutely no experience, she started the book, and in a few hours had an excellent understanding of the app, and was creating some ... Read More
Rating: - Awesome!!
Great book.I couldn't wait for it.I found it at a bookstore and after looking through it I bought it.It did not bother one bit paying the cover price.Great book.