ZBrush Presentation by Marco Plouffe - Sculpting and Posing Complex Hard-Surface Characters

Fans of digital sculpting, this one's for you!
During the 2022 ZBrush Summit, Marco Plouffe gave a presentation dissecting the sculpting, polishing and posing that went into the development of The 4 Horsemen, characters set in the Neo-Apocalypse world.
Tune in to this video to check it out!
If you are interested in learning more about The 4 Horsemen, you can read the lore at neo-apocalypse...
XM will also be producing 1/4 scale statues of The 4 Horsemen and the expanded Neo-Apocalypse universe. You can order yours here: www.xm-studios...
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[@Donnerjack2001]

Every time I improve in Zbrush i return to one of the Marco's videos and learn more to improve. Thanks for all the work to him and the hosts.

[@CritelliArt]

This was so dense with info that I had to spend some time breaking down the chapters. Really great overview of his process
10:00 OVERVIEW CHAPTER
10:10 Reference
12:41 Final pose
14:00 Roughs lineup/Layer construction
19:00 TOOLS DEMO CHAPTER
19:15 Concepting demo/Duplicate sculpting
22:58 Curve Brushes
26:45 Mask Extract
28:50 IMM Blocking
30:25 Dynamesh
30:00 POSING OVERVIEW CHAPTER
30:50 Lineup overview
33:10 Blocking Final pose
34:00 Posing polygroups
34:55 Posing considerations
38:10 Horse T-pose
39:20 Group Rough Lineup
42:15 Polished A-pose
45:00 POLISHING CHAPTER
45:45 Blocking breakout polish overview
47:40 Breakout polishing demo
51:47 3-steps - Pieces, Edges, Planes
52:18 Plate final mesh/Remeshing
55:10 Cleanup
59:48 Adding Thickness - Panel loops
1:00:24 Adding Creases
1:01:56 Polishing edges with deformation/morph targets
1:04:47 ADDING MID-LEVEL DETAILS CHAPTER
1:05:45 Trim details demo
1:08:10 Orb crack details
1:09:18 Mask Insets
1:12:41 Trim Hole
1:13:35 Trim Front
1:14:55 Mold Lines
1:17:25 IMM Details
1:18:55 Alpha Details
1:20:45 Working efficiently/Mesh densiity/ChugChugalug
1:25:00 Math interlude
1:30:35 Back on track
1:31:35 Surface Noise with UVs
1:35:41 Polishing Review
1:36:40 POSING CHAPTER
1:39:23 Design considerations
1:40:35 Model separation
1:41:50 Transpose master/Polygroups
1:44:35 Posing Demo/Masks
1:46:32 Reshaping
1:49:45 Hand masking
1:51:10 Applying Transpose master
1:52:54 Don’t change your mind
1:54:15 OUTRO

[@Azithable]

May your pillow always be cold and your stop lights eternally on green. Thank you!

[@tionanima]

THANK YOU

[@ZephrusPrime]

Marco's awesome! Thank you for this solid gold info!

[@chrisfox9492]

Wow such an amazing insight in workflow!

[@TheFeanture]

Thank you so much Marco! Super inspiring!

[@fredericmarquis3803]

really great video Marco rocks :)

[@jordangirard7498]

So interesting!

[@jayceejangeronga6975]

Marco my hero

[@3Defacil]

the difference from what they love from sculpt and i love from Video Games, they like a MOMENT and i like the living character for ever

[@bee3D]

What???

[@3Defacil]

@@bee3D statues STATICS, videogame charactes Living character forever

[@bee3D]

@@3Defacil You’re not speaking English

[@3Defacil]

@@bee3D it's not worth too many more words
What I'm trying to say is that instead of having an inanimate object in a static pose for life, I prefer to make characters that are always alive within a video game.

[@bee3D]

@@3Defacil ah I see

[@Strider1122]

Who is Louis Tucci? What does he do? Other than talk as a presenter... I'm just wondering. Times ave changed... Paul Gaboury used to be the spokesperson for Pixologic.

[@Annatar0]

I would love to see a presentation of the zbrush project of the War Machine (XM 'War Tank' Exclusive) with the artist(s) who made it.

[@ShadyDBZ4]

Maybe they can answer why war machine inside the tank is a fail. Dude has no legs. Half his body is cut off to fit in the tank.
How they screwed that up on a $3,000+ statue is beyond me. 🥴

[@clementblf8914]

what is the joke about a chung chunga lun lee ? D'ont know what it is ?

[@cr0uchingtiger]

Weird that my comment was deleted.

[@Lathspell_]

yuuman...

[@Sunie9238]

this at .25% demonic gol. wif soul.