Lessons from the Crypt: Geoff Priest
By Ryan Kingslien in Lessons from the Crypt | 7 comments
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Geoff Priest put together a great thread at ZBrushCentral with lots of innovative uses of ZBrush and ZSpheres in particular.
The Horsehead ghoul was done in ZSpheres:
Notice how each bone is an individual and separate object. This can be accomplished by holding ALT and clicking on the linking spheres between the control ZSpheres. This is a tool that is simply not used enough and is very powerful.
The next image shows the progression:
The way Geoff created the book with ZSpheres is also really innovative and interesting:

Those half-visible ZSpheres are called Attractor ZSpheres or Magnet Spheres. To learn more about them click here.
At the end of the thread he finishes off with his technique for creating the ladder:
Click here to see full sized images of the progression.
Click here for the ZBrushCentral thread
Thanks Geoff for a great thread and an awesome Scared Silly entry.
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well | Nov 29, 2007 | Reply
perfect!
spaceboy412 | Nov 29, 2007 | Reply
that book technique still blows my mind, never would’ve thought of doing it that way
cemarolover | Nov 29, 2007 | Reply
does zbrush work with vista?
Nat | Nov 29, 2007 | Reply
great work. I very amazing about technique to make
a book and eveything to make from zsphere. thank you very for share this.
admin | Nov 29, 2007 | Reply
cemarolover - yes.
admin | Nov 30, 2007 | Reply
spaceboy412 - yeah, that zsphere technique is very cool. Today, someone in one of my classes pointed out you could do a similar thing with Mesh Extraction from a 3D plane. Just draw the profile of it as a mask and then press SubTool: Mesh Extract with a high thickness value.
b2przemo | Jan 4, 2008 | Reply
Beautiful. Amazing lighting.
Can you tell us something about light setup?