Polygroups are a useful way of grouping certain areas of a single subtool, to make selecting and working on them easier. You can...

Masking is a way of selecting part of a tool, so that you can isolate it. It can then be hidden, used to create polygroups, or sculpt on...

ZBrush is a great program but with so many features and it’s constantly being updated and improved upon, its hard to know where to start...

ZBrush is great for organic sculpts, but can also be used with a little wizardry to create hard surface objects such as weapons, armour...

There are several ways to create hair and fur in ZBrush. Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages, and unique visual style....

Useful Brushes: This is a quick overview of the most common brushes you will use when sculpting Clay Buildup – use for building up forms...

When using ZBrush to sculpt, you are creating high poly models that aren’t usually fit for use in game engines. You will then create a...

UV Master is a free plugin for Z Brush to make unwrapping UVs easy. Unwrapped UVs can then be used to generate the flat textures used by...

MATERIALS Materials are applied to objects to help define how they will be rendered beyond mere colour data – will they be shiny or...

If you need to retopologize your model for lower poly counts, or for animation etc, there are several ways to do so. In this tutorial we...

Zbrushes internal rendering engine is a great tool for producing fast renders of your sculpts. Detailed below is a quick overview of how...

Mannequins are a feature built into Zbrush for rapidly creating humanoid character shapes, and posing them in a scene. They function...

Dynamesh is a feature used in ZBrush to instantly regenerate a workable topology over the surface of your currently selected Tool or...

ZModeller brush is an alternative to low poly modelling in a dedicated package such as 3DS Max, Blender etc. It isn’t designed as a...

TOOLS Every model you sculpt in Zbrush is considered a ‘tool’. When you first open Zbrush, the only thing visible is the Tool column, as...

Last week I looked at Topogun, a cool little program costing about $100 for allowing you to re-topologise a high density Zbrush model for...

Another summarisation of the tutorial videos from the Pixologic website… —————— Z SPHERE ARMATURE————- Choose the Zsphere tool to draw a...

This is a condensed reference guide from the video tutorials available on the Pixologic website. ————-GETTING STARTED——————— Ctrl + N–...