From the course: ZBrush: ArchViz Cloth Sculpting and Details

Studying reference - ZBrush Tutorial

From the course: ZBrush: ArchViz Cloth Sculpting and Details

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Studying reference

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- [Instructor] Now we're ready to begin sculpting the main event of our project, which is the Tiki sofa. You can Google that name to find lots of reference image for you to look at and study the model. I brought some of them over so that we can discuss a few things. So this is the model that we're trying to recreate, which is the Tiki sofa. I already created the base match inside of 3DS Max and we're just going to sculpt the fabric on top of it in ZBrush. This is a leather version. It has lots of different fabric options. You can choose whichever you like best. I'm not looking for these effects. I'm trying to recreate a current effect and we don't have a lot of reference of these couch with cotton. We're also not going to create the seam. We're doing without a seam so that we can add it later, if you like, or we can create it in another software, but just to make the sculpting process a little easier, we're not going to make these external seam that you see in the couch. So we have very few reference of cotton and when that happens what you can do is search for the fabric in similar situations. So I don't have a lot of reference of cotton in this sofa, but I do have a lot of reference of pillows with cotton, so I can use that to learn how the folding behaves, how the fabric behaves, so that I can study and replicate that in my model. So I brought a few over and you can see that you have a fine fabric and it wrinkles a lot in the seams, which is what we're trying to recreate. We're going to make a lot of fold in the scene, but you can see that in the middle of the cushion you don't have a lot of details. That is normal for the couch as well. If we go back, you can see that the middle of the cushion is pretty smooth and you have most of the details closer to the seams. So this is what we're going to recreate. Okay, so go on to Google, do your own research, study the fabric that you're trying to recreate, and we'll move on to ZBrush next.

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