Recording A Turntable

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In this tutorial we will look at how to create a turntable of your model inside of ZBrush using the new Movie Palette. Using ZBrush, artists can quickly and easily create high quality turntables complete with ray-trace shadows and anti-aliasing.

1. First, draw your model in the position on the screen that represents the first frame of your turntable.
2. Switch to Edit mode ( T ).
3. Set your turntable settings in the Movie:Modifiers sub-palette.
   1. Set the number of turns you want your model to take by adjusting the value of Movie:Modifiers:Spin Cycles. I set this to around 2 since I will use my video player to loop the animation.
   2. Set the speed of the turntable by setting Movie:Modifiers:SpinFrames. I set this to around 72. Keep in mind that this works in relation with Movie:Modifiers:Recording FPS and Movie:Modifiers:Playback FPS. For example, if i have a movie with a Playback FPS of 24 and I have SpinFrames set to 72 than I will have one complete turn of the model every 3 seconds. 72 divided by 24 = 3.
   3. You can also set the axis of rotation by pressing X, Y or Z in the Movie:Modifiers sub-palette.
4. Adjust your render settings:
   1. For real-time shadows, make sure that Render:Shadows is on and Render:Preview is on.
   2. For ray-trace shadows, press Render:Best and make sure that Render:Shadows is on.
   3. If you are using ray-trace shadows go into the light palette and establish the settings for the shadows.
      1. Shadow Length should equal 500
      2. Rays should equal around 80 or so for nice fall off. However, this largely depends on your Light:Shadows:Aperture setting. The lower your aperture the fewer rays you will need.
      3. Aperture should be set around 12 for harder edged shadows.
5. When all these settings are established, press Movie:Turntable.
6. Once the movie is recorded, decide if you want a title screen and end screen.
   1. If you do not want either one, set Movie:Title Image:FadeIn Time and Movie:Title Image:FadeOut Time to 0.
   2. If you do, then set the amount of time they would fade into your movie with Movie:Title Image:FadeIn Time. Set the amount of time for it to be tacked onto the end, set Movie:Title Image:FadeOut Time.
7. Save your movie by pressing Movie:Save As. This will save a ZBrush Movie.
8. Finally, export your movie using Quicktime by pressing Movie:Export. If you do not have Quicktime you can download it for free from www.apple.com.

To Learn About Turntable Modifiers Click Here.

To Learn About Overlay Image Click Here.

To Learn About Title Image Click Here.

To Learn About Exporting A Movie Click Here.