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Making a filigree pattern

Making a filigree pattern - ZBrush Tutorial

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Making a filigree pattern

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- I find that many of my freelance clients are looking for ways to create objects with intricate mesh-like patterns on the surface. With 3D printing these kinds of patterns are actually very doable. In this video I'll show you some tips and tricks for making these patterns, as well as how to spot potential problems. So we've got a T-Rex skull here and there's several different ways that we could get a pattern onto the skull. We could start painting one directly on, but for this video to speed things up I'm going to start by wrapping on an existing 2D pattern as a texture map. So let's go into our Tool palette here and open up Texture Map, and go ahead and click on the empty swatch, and we're going to Import an image. So in our Exercise Files let's go into the filigree folder and get the filigree texture here. And once we open this up let's take a look at here. If I just hover my cursor over this swatch you can see it's kind of a lacy pattern. If you want to find your own image through…

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