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Environment Concept Art with Pablo Dominguez
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- 32 hours 53 minutesTotal Course Duration
- 214 VideosVideos in Course
- 917.41 MB of FilesFiles in Course
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Hard Surface Elements
Building a Kit
Lesson 2 of 8 Environment Concept Art
You'll now use ZBrush to transform abstract shapes into various different buildings, props and other elements. By the end of this lesson, you will have your own custom-created kit.
Building Objects from Shapes Homework
Now it's time to create your own set of objects by using your shape templates. Try to keep an open mind as you work, and capitalize on any happy accidents that occur. You never know when a compelling shape might present itself. Don't worry much about texture or color, only on the quick and dirty process of creating large amounts of content.
Basic Texture Homework
Using the methods Pablo showed in this chapter, add color and dirt to your assets. These details don't need to be perfect at this stage, but this initial pass will at least remove some of the CG look. That there will be further refinements later in the course.
Creating the Kit Homework
Gather all your created objects together, decimate them, and do anything needed to prepare a clean file.
If you're comfortable with Blender, you can also bring your objects into Blender during this homework. If not, you can wait until the next lesson, where Pablo will go over more of the basics of Blender, to bring in your assets.
Note: You can find a link to the GoB plugin (for ZBrush to Blender transfer) in this lesson's downloadable project files.
Student Homework
Lesson 1
Establishing a Design Language
In this lesson you will come up with a basic idea for your environment, and create your own design language in ZBrush.
Note: This lesson also comes with Pablo's ZBrush Basics course as a free bonus! There will be a point during this lesson in which you're told when and how to access this content.
- 2 hours 53 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 24 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
Pablo's Journey
Coming Up with an Idea
Design Fundamentals
- Intro to Design FundamentalsPreview01:17
- Graphic ShapesPreview08:57
- Graphic Shapes HomeworkPreview01:32
- Detail DistributionPreview06:41
- Detail Distribution HomeworkPreview02:43
- Design LanguagePreview21:29
- Design Language HomeworkPreview02:56
- Sketching in Different StylesPreview04:15
- Sketching in Different Styles HomeworkPreview02:24
ZBrush Basics
Shape Templates
Lesson 2
this lessonBuilding a Kit
You'll now use ZBrush to transform abstract shapes into various different buildings, props and other elements. By the end of this lesson, you will have your own custom-created kit.
- 2 hours 2 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 11 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
Building Objects from Shapes
Basic Texture
Creating the Kit
Conclusion
Lesson 3
Creating Materials
In this lesson, you'll set up various materials and apply them to the environment assets you've created in ZBrush.
- 2 hours 48 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 20 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
Blender Intro
Materials Prep
Using Your Created Assets
Rendering
Conclusion
Lesson 4
Detailed Assets
In this lesson you'll block out various small, medium and large scale structures for your environment, then add detail and optimize all your creations.
- 3 hours 25 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 16 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
Main Structure Blockouts
First Building with the Kit
Small to Mid-Size Buildings
Large Buildings
Lesson 5
Scene Setup
Now you'll lay out your terrain, place all the buildings and structures you've created in ZBrush, establish camera angles, and finally render out your scene.
- 3 hours 30 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 21 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
ZBrush to Blender
Initial Terrain
Populating the Scene
Establishing Camera Angles
Rendering
Lesson 6
Final Paintovers
In this lesson, you will use photobash and paintover techniques to turn your 3D renders into finished, portfolio-ready pieces of concept art.
- 6 hours 26 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 28 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
Guidance
Introduction
Photoshop Tips
Photobash Prep
Hero Shot Paintover
Main Building Front View Paintover
Top-Down View Paintover
Character-Level View
Conclusion
Lesson 7
Animated Sequence
In this lesson, you will turn one of your concept art images into a high-quality animated sequence.
- 4 hours 20 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 23 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
Guidance
Introduction
Establishing the Movement
Projection Prep
Blender Projection
Matte Painting
Final Comp
Conclusion
Lesson 8
Full Course: ZBrush Basics
Purchasers of Environment Concept Art also get this second beginner-friendly ZBrush Basics course in its entirety. It has been uploaded as a bonus lesson within Environment Concept Art.
- 7 hours 26 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 71 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Lesson 1: Absolute Basics - Introduction
ZBrush Interface
Basic Manipulation
Basic Manipulation Challenge
Lesson 2: Masking - Introduction
Management
Masking
Basic Masking Challenge
Lesson 3: Cutting - Introduction
Useful Functions
Cutting Methods
Creating with Cuts Challenge
Lesson 4: Details - Introduction
Controlling the Sculpt
Small Details
Small Details Challenge
Lesson 5: Brushes - Introduction
Using Brushes
Brush and Mask Challenge
Extract
Extract Challenge
Lesson 6: Sculpting From Reference - Introduction
Hard Surface Sculpt
Organic Sculpt
Free Sculpt
UV Projection
Lesson 7: Where to Go From Here - Introduction
Further Learning
Sculpting Like a Pro
Conclusion
3 Comments
Hi! Why is the kit created by Pablo for this course not included in the downloadable project files?
Hello! I have a question about the number of polygons. Usually for large scenes people use retopology so as not to load tens of millions of polygons into Blender (my Blender dies at ~10-20 million in a scene). Perhaps I missed something or misunderstood (English is my second language) and you may correct me, but how it is possible to send to Blender from Zbrush such massive Kit with 40+ millions of polygons to make from them even more heavy objects?
Pablo reduces polycount to around 1-2mil per model with decimation for foreground elements and way less for bg ones (he has two versions for everything). Blender still explodes, so you need to think ahead how many unique things you'd like to place in one scene. If your composition allows for it you can split the scene in multiple parts and place them together in photoshop, and dont use arrays or copies.