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MAA 4435: Advanced 3d Modeling and Texturing The Purpose of this course is to introduce advance concepts for modeling and rendering through the combination of Maya, Photoshop and Zbrush. Focusing on various pipelines, this course covers concepts such as displacement mapping, normal mapping, Zspheres and their skinning processes, and 2.5 illustration.

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We will examine two great plugins which will allowus to pose our Creature models inside Zbrush.

Transpose Master allows you to pose a model with multiple SubTools by creating one combined model of the lowest resolution level of each SubTool. Once this low rez version is posed you can transfer the pose back to your original high rez model at the click of a button.

Big Apple Throws the Haymaker:
This video shows a timelapse of using the transpose master tool in Zbrush 3.12

Subtool Master allows you to mirror, duplicate, merge, export all your subtools at once, fill all your subtools with color and/or materials.

 

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Mudbox Conversion The following videos cover tips and techniques for using Mudbox, to aid in your workflow alongside Zbrush.