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Turning a model into a bas-relief sculpture

Turning a model into a bas-relief sculpture - ZBrush Tutorial

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Turning a model into a bas-relief sculpture

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- Bas-relief has been its own kind of sculpture since the beginning of time, requiring specific skills and techniques that are separate from sculpture in the round. With ZBrush however, new possibilities open up that we never had before. In this video, I'll show you how to take a typical 3D model and turn it into a bas-relief sculpture of the kind that you might find on a coin or a medallion. Let's come take a look at how it's done. This video is going to build off a lot of tips and tricks shown earlier in this series, as well as add some new ones. Okay, so in our scene, you can see we've got this coin in the background, and we've got this bull. And it's a sculpture in the round. And what we need to do is get it flat, and a, sort of an embossed effect on that coin. Since bas-relief is meant to be seen straight on, sort of from one angle, what I want to do is make sure that I'm looking at this from a perfect front view. So I'm gonna hold down Shift while I rotate my view, so it snaps…

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