Building Creatures Using ZBrush
Instructor:
Aaron SIMS
Formats: (Mac or PC only)
DVD-ROM
Continuing his Tethered Islands series, Aaron Sims shares his techniques for
building a creature in ZBrush. Using ZSpheres to design the initial body
structure, Aaron develops the character from scratch. He then demonstrates how
to skin the ZSpheres and add details, color and lighting. In XSI, Aaron
discusses the basics of rigging, weighting, and animating the imported creature
from ZBrush. Finally he covers how to pose, light, and render the creature in an
XSI scene.
About 6 hours of lecture
Product Code: ASI04
Topics Covered:
ZSpheres
Building a Creature Using ZSpheres
Skinning ZSpheres and Adding Details
Adding Alpha Textures and Color
Basic Materials and Rendering
Making Displacement Maps for XSI
Basic Rigging, Weighting and Animating in XSI
Rendering a Scene Using XSI
Chapters:
01. ZSpheres Basics
02. Modeling a Creature Using ZSpheres
03. Skinning ZSpheres and Blocking out Large Forms
04. Adding Smaller Forms
05. Adding Details
06. Adding Texture
07. Adding Color Materials and Rendering
08. Making Displacement Maps for XSI
09. Basic Rigging, Weighting and Animating in XSI
10. Posing, Lighting and Rendering the Creature in XSI
Instructor BIO:
Aaron Sims began designing, sculpting and painting creatures for the movie
makeup effects industry in the mid 1980s. In 1988, he joined Rick Baker's
Academy Award® winning Cinovation Studios Inc. where he worked on many projects
including: The Nuttty Professor, Men in Black and How the
Grinch Stole Christmas. In the late 1990s, Aaron began exploring the medium
of computer animation, joining Stan Winston Studio in 2000 where he began
building SW-Digital, a CG department within the Academy Award winning effects
house. As that company's Art Director, Aaron designed for such films as A.I.
Artificial Intelligence, Terminator 3, Constantine and
Doom and Fantastic 4.
The Minimum System Requirements are:
1GHz or faster processor
512 MB RAM
64 MB Video RAM
DVD-ROM Drive
5 GB of hard disk space
1280 x 1024 display
The Minimum Operating System Requirements are:
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional,
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Apple® Mac® OS X 10.2
This DVD-ROM also requires the Quicktime Movie Player (Version 5.0.5 or higher),
and Acrobat Reader (Version 5.0 or higher) in order to view its contents.
