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Using masking to isolate the creature’s shape - ZBrush Tutorial
From the course: ZBrush: Stylized Sculpting
Using masking to isolate the creature’s shape
- [Voiceover] Okay, so I'm on the layer and what I want to do now is start working on the octopus and I can do that fairly easily. I'm gonna turn off my alpha so that I have more of a rounder brush. Also, going to lower my focal shift and draw size down. I think I'll bring the intensity up. Yeah. So, I want something a bit more like this happening. You could just march right right in there and just start painting in the tentacle if you want. Another way of doing this, that is a little bit more controlling, is where you work with a mask. So, by holding down the Control key, I'm able to actually paint in my mask. The only thing is if you notice I have a very tight radius on my focal shift right now. Whereas when I select the mask, the radius changes. So, I'm going to Control Z back and I'm going to also bring this down to approximately the same, minus 79. And then, I'm going to use that now for my masking. The cool part is now when I paint the mask, I have the freedom of literally just…
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Using Rake and Weave brushes to create old pages quickly6m 35s
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Quickly adding an aged texture to the paper3m 35s
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Final details on the pages2m 33s
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Adding a leather texture to cover6m 7s
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Working with layers2m 57s
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Using masking to isolate the creature’s shape6m 45s
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Sculpting in the tentacles and head shapes6m 2s
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Improvising the base sculpt of the head and face3m 22s
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Using the Mech A brush to pull sharp edges around shapes7m 16s
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Adding dimples using a Noise alpha map4m
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Creating a custom Alpha for stamping shapes quickly6m 2s
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Creating barnacles quickly using the Clay Tubes brush5m 51s
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Duplicating and moving parts4m 34s
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Quick scrollwork techniques using a variety of brushes6m
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Sculpting the lock top and bottom pieces3m 26s
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