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January 9, 2008

Tips-N-Tricks: Topological Masks

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In this short video, we look at three ways you can use Topological Maskings:

  • To open a mouth
  • To isolate the ear
  • To close the eyelids

Topological Masking is built to flow along the surface of your model’s topology. This allows you, the artist, to quickly isolate areas of your model such as fingers, limbs and whole regions like the chest area.

Topological Masking is a feature unique to ZBrush and developed by Pixologic’s own internal R&D team. We are very proud of its functionality and how easily it lends itself to other features like Transpose.

5 Comment(s)

  1. sebcesoir | Jan 10, 2008 | Reply

    Waw… really cool tricks…!

  2. Nolan_R | Jan 10, 2008 | Reply

    I’m finding this blog both useful and enlightening. Keep ‘em coming Ryan!

  3. NickZ. | Jan 11, 2008 | Reply

    Very cool. I was wondering how you sharpen a mask!

    Thanks bud!

  4. Fabio Paiva | Jan 13, 2008 | Reply

    @NickZ,

    You can sharpen a mask by holding ctrl+alt and clicking at the mask.

    So, if you hold only ctrl, it´ll be smoothed out.

    Cya

  5. Atwooki | Jan 21, 2008 | Reply

    You’ve put up some remarkably helpful info - sorry - Tips ‘n Tricks here Ryan….
    This one’s a real goody - many thanks :)

    Chris

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