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KoreaBlocking In Your Model: A Summary
By Ryan Kingslien in Artist's Series, sculpting | 227 comments
In this article I want to sum up a few posts where I show one way to work with image planes to block in your model.
The idea behind this approach is to utilize traditional approaches to blocking in a sculpt within the realm of digital sculpting.
Setting Up The Image Plane
First we set up our image plane in Photoshop. For this exercise we will be using ImagePlaneX.ZTL. ImagePlaneX ships with ZBrush and can be found in the ZTool directory of the ZBrush installation.
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Finding the Structure of our Reference
Next we analyze our photographic reference.
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Setting Up ImagePlaneX in ZBrush
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Basic Head Structure
In this video we look at using Freedom of Teach’s Flesh Torso Stage 1 form breaks to rough-in our 3D model.
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Detailed Rough-in of head
In this video we look at roughing in the face using Freedom of Teach’s second stage.
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To learn more about creating and setting up the image planes see Using Background Reference.
Reference:
The default Flat Color Material acts as a neutralizer. To remove a material that you had previously baked into your model you can bake the Flat Color material into it. This will remove the material assigned to it.
So to create a Flat Color material that we can assign to an object we must add one to our startup Materials. Once it has been added to our startup materials we can then bake it into our model.
Add A Flat Color Material To Our Startup Folder
- Select the Flat Color material in the Material palette
- Press Save in the Material palette
- Save it to ZStartup/Materials in the root ZBrush directory
- Restart ZBrush
Bake A Material Into a 3D Object
- Select the material you want to bake into your model in the Material palette
- Press M on the shelf
- Press Fill Object in the Color Palette
Image plane reference from www.3d.sk
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Sergio Carreiras | Mar 13, 2008 | Reply
Hello Ryan, I´m I missing some post or you never made the steps 3 and so on?
It is so great and is helpping me a lot.
Reagards from Brazil haha!
Ryan Kingslien | Mar 13, 2008 | Reply
Hey Sergio,
In this case I haven’t shown the next step. I stayed focused on just blocking it in. I am still exploring several ways to go from here to the final product.
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