From the course: ZBrush: Sculpting Portraits

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Taking your own photos for reference

Taking your own photos for reference - ZBrush Tutorial

From the course: ZBrush: Sculpting Portraits

Taking your own photos for reference

- The old saying, "If you want something done right, "you had better do it yourself," never carried more weight than now. There are whole businesses devoted to photographing people for use as reference for digital sculpture and even they often make simple mistakes that reduce the photo's usability as sculpting reference. In this video, I'll show you how to take reference photos the right way. Now there are three things to keep in mind. Quantity, angle, and distance. The first, quantity, is the easiest. Take lots of pictures from all angles. You can always delete the pictures you don't need but you might not always be able to go back and take more. Now let's talk about distance. I like to take two sets of photos. One set where you're at a relatively close conversational distance with a person. Maybe three to five feet away. And you want to get lots of different pictures from this relatively close distance. You can see here I'm getting shots all the way around. And soon I'll be getting…

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