Description

Warning: Virtual Nudity

In this tutorial Zbrush to Poser “Intermediate Clothing” we will see just how easy it is to quickly create more complicated cloths for your poser figures. With just a couple of simple steps we will create a skirt, top, boots, and a “magic” helmet using just a few of Zbrush’s tools. We will build a bit off of the techniques learned in the previous “Simple Clothing” Tutorial, but is not 100% necessary (but fully recommended) to follow along. After watching this 7 and a half hour tutorial you will no longer be afraid of Zbrush in all it’s power and will be making your own more complex outfits with ease!

We will:
Export a Figure from Poser
Create Clothing with a few Simple Clicks
Use and Understand “Dynamesh”
Use Zbrush’s IMM Brushes
UV map inside Zbrush using their integrated tool
Optimize our Clothing Objects
Paint Textures Maps
Make Normal Maps
Make Displacement Maps
Use Photoshop to Remove pesky Seams that tend to show in Poser
Prepare our Object to be Rigged as Conforming Clothing
Rig and Inject Morphs into our Clothing Easily using a Figure in Poser
Adjust Falloff Zones using the Joint Editor to make our Cloth more “Flexible”
Edit our CR2 files in Multiple ways that Cannot be done Inside Poser (display type, mechanical rigging, moving source objects, visibility, etc…)
Make Morphs using Poser’s tools
Make a Pose to “Hide” and “UnHide” Multiple Body Parts
Edit Dependencies to understand “Master Dials”
Briefly talk about some Basic Materials Inside Poser

Join me in this easy to follow tutorial and start creating more complex clothing NOW!!

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1 Dynamesh                      45:06
2 IMM Brushes                   27:36
3 Dynamesh Boots                20:27
4 Headpiece and Details         28:26
5 Optimizing and Uvs            26:17
6 Painting and Texture Exports  32:25
……………………………………..Zbrush 3 hours
7 Internal Naming and Material Zones  1:25:51
………………………………Maya 1 hour 25 minutes
8 Setup Room Rigging            38:33
9 Texture and CR2 Editing       47:08
10 Joint Editor Morphing Tool and Hide Pose   59:49
11  Master Parameters and Finish Up           34:36
………………………………………Poser 3 hours

Approx Total Running Time: 7.5 hours
Total Size: 4.78GB
File Format: .WMV (Windows Media Video)

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To follow along you will need:
Zbrush
Poser 6 or above, Later versions would be required to inject morphs automatically (Poser Pro 2014 is used in this video)
Photoshop (cs 5 used in this video)
3rd Party 3d Modelling program to cut up your objects, edit material names, and do the internal naming; such as: Blender, Maya, Max, etc… (Maya is used in this video)
a Poser File Editor like “Poser File Editor” or “CR2 Editor” is recommended.
A very basic understanding of these tools will be presumed.

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