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ZBrush Basics

Pablo Dominguez

Learn ZBrush from the ground up with an accessible intro to tools, interface, and sculpting basics. Build skills through guided exercises and bite-sized projects that help you quickly create confident, beginner-friendly sculpts.

Beginner7h 25m70 Videos

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Learn the basics of ZBrush from a concept art legend.

Embark on your journey into 3D art by learning the basics of ZBrush from one of the industry's leading concept artists, Pablo Dominguez. Designed for absolute beginners, this course covers the essentials of ZBrush's interface, tools, and sculpting processes, making it accessible and engaging to achieve any artist goals you may have. With interactive challenges and homework assignments built to reinforce your learning, this course will guide you to create bite-sized projects using your newly acquired skills. As an added value, purchasing Pablo's Environment Concept Art course grants you FREE access to this ZBrush Basics course. 

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What you'll learn

A guided path through every stage of the course, broken down into focused lessons you can work through at your own pace.

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    Lesson 2

    Masking

    In this lesson, you'll learn how to use masking to create compelling sculpts, as well as some useful features that will help to manage your details. 

    • 52 minutes
    • 6 Videos
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    Lesson 3

    Cutting

    This lesson will focus primarily on booleans and the knife tool: two of Pablo's favorite tools when creating detailed ZBrush sculpts. 

    • 47 minutes
    • 7 Videos
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    Lesson 4

    Details

    In this lesson, you'll learn techniques to add and control different kinds of micro and macro details on your sculpt. 

    • 36 minutes
    • 8 Videos
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    Lesson 5

    Brushes

    In this lesson, you'll learn how to use brushes to create details on your sculpt, as well as how to utilize the extract tool for quick creations. 

    • 54 minutes
    • 10 Videos
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    Lesson 6

    Sculpting From Reference

    Now that you've learned the necessary ZBrush tools, Pablo will take you through sculpting workflows that are closer to the way you might work on a real project. 

    • 2h 19m
    • 15 Videos
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    Lesson 7

    Where to Go From Here

    In this Lesson, Pablo will guide you through various ZBrush resources for further learning. 

    • 25 minutes
    • 8 Videos

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Pablo Dominguez

Pablo Dominguez is a visionary concept artist known for his exceptional talent in creating immersive environments, detailed characters, and awe-inspiring keyframes. His expertise in ZBrush and Photoshop has contributed to iconic projects like 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' and 'Star Wars: Obi Wan Kenobi'. Renowned for his innovative techniques, Pablo has created multiple courses on Learn Squared to share his knowledge with students from around the world.

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Course Lesson Plan

Here's a full list of all the videos in this course.

  • 7 hours 25 minutes
    Total Bundle Duration
  • 70 Videos
    Video Lectures in Bundle
  • 4.69 KB of Files
    Downloadable Project Files

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