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Sculpting the book cover compass ring

Sculpting the book cover compass ring - ZBrush Tutorial

From the course: ZBrush: Stylized Sculpting

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Sculpting the book cover compass ring

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- OK, now I have my arrow completed and I'm quite happy with the way it looks. It's probably a little bit too clean, but I'll go back later and I'll show you how we add some more damage and pitted metal. First I want to open up the circle that is also part of the compass. I go into my Subtools and scroll down to the circle. The important thing here is I'm trying to maintain the shape. What I have is obviously a circle and I want that to smoothen out. However, I have it with a chiseled point in the middle. Now, one of the things I tend to do in 3D before I come in to ZBrush is I'll usually split an additional line on my edges, so these three edges would normally have an additional split very close to them. But I didn't do that in this piece, so what I have to do is come up with a solution that will keep this ring maintaining the basic form but will also smooth itself out. Let's jump right in and see what we can do within ZBrush. I'm going to go into the Geometry setting and I'll turn…

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