You can expect to come away from the workshop with a solid understanding of how to create appealing and believable hair for your stylized characters, along with new knowledge about a variety of ZBrush tools that will help to level up your digital-sculpting process. Hossein Diba shares a thorough breakdown of his workflow, tools and methods using a character study of the wrestler Steve Austin. He also shares his best practices for optimizing hair for use in games, animations, and other digital media. This title offers an in-depth demonstration on how to effectively use ZBrush to create a hyper realistic character.

Through a series of step-by-step demonstrations, you will explore a variety of topics, including an introduction to ZBrush's essential tools and their capabilities when it comes to stylized hair creation a look at the fundamentals of hair sculpting and styling for characters strategies for adding texture, volume, and movement to hair as well as Dan’s top tips for using color and lighting to enhance the look of hair in a 3D scene. Starting from an original character as his subject, Dan walks through his complete workflow for approaching character stylization using ZBrush, teaching an understanding of what creates an appealing character and talking through the technical tools and practical applications he uses to achieve his distinctive style.

In this 2.5-hour workshop, Lead 3D Character Artist Dan Eder shares a deep dive into his process for sculpting stylized 3D hair with ZBrush.

He has professional experience with traditional and digital sculpting, modeling, rigging and facial pipeline, animation, rendering, as well as art direction for characters, environments, effects and animation.Learn how to use ZBrush's powerful tools to create dynamic and expressive hairstyles for your stylized characters. Rafael has worked on more than 70 projects and over 15 companies doing cinematic production, game art, TV projects, printed advertisement, statue collection design and toy design. After that, he was hired at Santa Monica Studio to work as a principal artist on the God of War series. Whether you’re a beginner or more intermediate ZBrush artist, this workshop will provide many helpful insights into. Book Readings: Eric Kellers book on Zbrush. Hossein Diba shares a thorough breakdown of his workflow, tools and methods using a character study of the wrestler Steve Austin. character design which we have done so successfully in the 2D design areas. He moved to California in 2013 to work at SONY (VASG) as a character art supervisor, where he contributed to 6 titles, including, Killzone: Shadow Fall, Infamous 3 and The order:1886. This 5-hour workshop is designed to enable you to take just a few of the basic tools in ZBrush and understand precisely how to use those foundational basics to manipulate and create a human skull as a project for your portfolio. This title offers an in-depth demonstration on how to effectively use ZBrush to create a hyper realistic character. In 2011, he relocated to Canada to work at Bioware (EA) as a senior character artist on the Mass Effect and Dragon Age franchises. After working as lead modeler for close to 3 years, he became a freelance character artist for cinematic, advertising productions and the toy industries, producing work for a great number of companies that include Hasbro, Marvel and Ubisoft. He began his career in 2004, working for advertising studios in Brazil. This class focuses on sculpting with Pixologics ZBrush, along with its role in digital sculpting, 3D art, 3D printing, and illustration. Rafael is currently living in Santa Monica, California, working at Santa Monica Studio on the God of War franchise. Learn how to translate a 2D stylized concept into a 3D character with this 6-hour workshop by Daniel Zeni.

Rafael Grassetti Art Director at Sony Santa Monica on God of War

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