“ZBrush is hard to learn because of its UI; it took me years to get over the fear for that reason” ZBrush is a wonderful sculpting tool for modelling, texturing and painting. It’s great for creating high-res models for 3D characters, clothing content and props…
ZBRUSH FORGE : Live Sculpting of Orc Characters and Fantasy Tower
“Just learning the user interface and getting down the terminology has been a bit rough” ZBrush is a wonderful sculpting tool for modelling, texturing and painting. It’s great for creating high-res models for 3D characters, clothing content and props for illustration, games, movies, and animations.…
ZBrush Masterclass Weekend : Live Sculpting and ZBrush Clinic
In this live ZBrush webinar weekend we include a live sculpting session to create some uniquely designed helmets, as well as discuss design decisions informed by forms and functions found in history. The weekend also includes a free ZBrush clinic, where you can bring your…
Prototyping : Rapid Character Development from Artbreeder to DAZ Studio
Artbreeder is a must have resource for generating absolutely unique characters. What if you could take Artbreeder 2D characters to create 3D character models in DAZ Studio? You would have a universe of brand new characters to try in your DAZ Studio scenes! John Haverkamp…
Artbreeder : New Developments and Improvements
New Developments for Artbreeder Demonstrated! Artbreeder is a new kind of image making and discovery tool that is online and collaborative. Images are ‘bred’ together and users can easily explore and quickly iterate new generations of artwork. It’s a free online service, and Artbreeder can…
ARTificial Intelligence
All of the unique character images above were created through new software called Artbreeder, mingling images together to produce new ‘child’ images, using artificial intelligence. Not only can face images can be “bred” together, but also landscapes, anime characters or even album covers! The genes of…
3D Printing
What is 3D printing? How does it work? What are its key benefits if you craft your own 3D digital models? The concept of 3D printing can be traced back to when the sci-fi author, Arthur C. Clarke, was the first to describe the basic…
How to Effortlessly Make Amazing PBR Materials
Substance Alchemist is definitely the coolest of the three Substance programs, as such – it’s a perfect entry point to into the Substance Universe! Alchemist’s niche in the Algorthmic ecosystem is primarily for building tileable full PBR materials from photo input. Secondly it’s for leveraging…
Celtic Treasures : How to Create Ancient Art with Substance Designer and Painter
Early Northern European ornament was strongly influenced by the Celts who were a powerful and diverse group stretching from what is now Yugoslavia in the east all the way to Ireland in the west. In their heyday from 750 BC until the Roman conquest they…
Read Issue 27 of Digital Art Live : Discover Giant Monsters Creating giant creatures with Photoshop, Poser Pro, Painter, ZBrush, 3DS Max
Welcome to Issue 27! Welcome to this ‘Giant Monsters’ issue! Giant monsters have been around for a long time, even if you don’t count the dinosaurs. The most ancient epic of Gilgamesh, the earliest known work of literature, has the hero fight a giant spirit-boar…