3D Creative December 2015

3DCREATIVE MAGAZINE | ISSUE 124
Starting to paint texture onto the model
hand painting with the various masking features
that ZBrush provides. While texturing I use
ZBrush’s skinShade4 shader. For image projection
I use ZBrush’s Spotlight function. First we have to
import a texture from the Texture menu. Select
the texture and press ‘Add to spotlight’. The
Lightbox might pop out at this point, but turn it
off. Now we’re in texture placement and editing
mode, so place and edit the texture using the
circular manipulator.
Adding more realistic detail to the skin
Now we need to use two important shortcuts:
Z and Shift+Z. Shift+Z will enable and disable
Spotlight mode. After turning Spotlight on, the
‘Z’ key will switch between image-editing and
painting mode. For the Standard brush, we must
enable ‘RGB only’ to project color. If ZAdd/ZSub
is enabled it will project detail as well. This way I
project images to most of the areas of the body.
Using the Standard brush with the Color Spray
setting and Alpha58 (or a custom alpha), I use
the ‘C’ key to color-pick from existing projected
textures and fill the white gaps. This way I get a
vibrant color effect from the brush, which is like a
real skin texture.
Texture detailing: Now with more of
20 a careful painting approach, I will finish
the texturing using various different alphas
and colors. While painting these areas I will
choose darker colors to paint the cavity areas,
compared to the areas of relief. For this, I lower
the subdivision level and apply the option ‘Mask
by cavity’, then blur the mask once, then sharpen
it again. Then I go to the highest subdivision and
start painting.
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