Zbrush Tutorial on Lighting with Materials

[elliotm]

Over the years I've come to realize that tutorials don't have to be application specific to be useful or applicable. Recently came across some free tutorials on Zbrush over on GnomonWorkshop and thought the tutorial on Lighting with Materials was a pretty good way of explaining how to make MatCaps, which are similar enough to what Sculptris can use, so I thought I would post and share it with you guys. You have to register for a free account to watch it but its in the upper left by Neville Page and was quite informative to watch and taught me a few things about lighting in general. He uses Photoshop but just about any painting program would be sufficient really as long as you can borrow the techniques.

www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/category/168/Free-ZBrush-Tutorials

[wasa]

hmm, someone else posted a link to that tutorial a little while back, I never was able to get it to load in any of my browsers sadly

[elliotm]

Guess I should have expected that. At any rate, I also found another tip on how to use Zbrush matcaps in Blender, which should be useful to those who use it to retopo their stuff:

blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=174790

[banjaxedmdt]

Yup twas I. I posted a link to it in the materials thread. It's an interesting vid, worth a watch even if you know how to create materials.

[wasa]

what browser are you 2 using?
Cause i can't seem to get the videos to load

[elliotm]

I use Google Chrome. Make sure you have flash installed and you'll need to register for a free account to see it.

[wasa]

I'm pretty sure flash is installed, using chrome here as well so guess i'll reinstall flash, maybe a file is corupted or it's out of date

so reinstalled flash, and it still wasn't working, opened the settings, was set to unlimited storage for letting videos fully stream before i watch. so figured what the hell, i'll set it to default, and that fixed it
pretty damn weird lol

[banjaxedmdt]

I use Firefox, though I'm sure I've watched their videos with several different browsers. I have to disable my adblocker though before they will play.

[elliotm]

Jun 4, 2010 23:29:05 GMT 1 wasa said:

I'm pretty sure flash is installed, using chrome here as well so guess i'll reinstall flash, maybe a file is corupted or it's out of date

so reinstalled flash, and it still wasn't working, opened the settings, was set to unlimited storage for letting videos fully stream before i watch. so figured what the hell, i'll set it to default, and that fixed it
pretty damn weird lol

Glad to hear that worked for you but, ya, that is weird.

[wasa]

lol i guess gnomon was like OOH! look we can fill his harddrive then spent the 5 hrs i waited for it to load (while i did other things of course) trying to decide what junk from the internet to fill it with lol