ZBrush Production Pipeline
ZBrush and External 3D Programs with Meats Meier

Instructor:
Meats MEIER

Formats: (Mac or PC only)
DVD-ROM (2-Disc Set)

This DVD focuses on the relationship between Maya (or any 3D package), and the wonderful sculpting, texturing and displacement creation tool that is ZBrush. Meats discusses the basics of ZBrush, focusing on working efficiently, moving your work between applications and rendering the results within your favorite renderer. Various methods of texture map creation and application are covered, including view port painting and using the many 2.5D painting tools inside the Projection Master for real time, detailed texture application. Materials, color, geometry sculpting and displacements are explained, along with the methods of using ZBrush as an animated blend shape (morph target) creator.

4 hours of Lecture.

Product Code: MME02

Topics Covered:

Preparing Geometry in your 3D Package
Basics of ZBrush Texture
UV's and Mapping
Creating and Rendering Displacement Maps
Creating / Rendering Normal Maps
Creating Blend Shapes

Chapters: Disc One

01: Rules for Exported Geometry
02: ZBrush Basics
03: Working in ZBrush
04: Texture
05: Creating Displacement Maps

Chapters: Disc Two

01: Working with Multiple Maps
02: Blend Shapes
03: Normal Maps
04: Rendering Displacements

Instructor BIO:

Meats Meier is a resident artist and instuctor at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects where he teaches the first ever ZBrush course. An award-winning digital artist, Meats has over a decade of experience in a wide range of artistic fields. His past titles include: airbrush artist, lead artist at Beyond Games, a video game studio, and technical director/compositor at the Orphanage on such feature films as Hellboy and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. He also maintains a successful career as an independent artist. Meats’ artwork has been featured on the covers of numerous books, magazines, and web sites. Meats was honored with the prestigious "Maya Master" title by Alias at SIGGRAPH 2003.

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), the Ensharpen Codec (Version 1.0.1 or higher) and Acrobat Reader (Version 5.0 or higher) in order to view its contents.