Improving Your Face Sculpting - Top ZBrush Sculpting Tips

In this ZBrush sculpting tutorial, we talk about how to improve your face sculpting. Learn our top tips for sculpting a monster head.
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[@Dusk1990]

Hey my sculpt! xD Only 8 minutes in and already so much useful information. You guys rock!

[@daniboiyy]

Enrique how long have you been sculpting in zbrush, and how often do you sculpt? I was wandering how long it took you to get to this level, im a beginner, and very intimidated of sculpting and zbrush.

[@Dusk1990]

I started back in March of this year. I was super intimidated at first too and but I think its definitely a program worth learning. I try to sculpt everyday as my goal but sometimes cant, so maybe 4 - 5 times a week on average. I also bought the Introduction to ZBrush tutorial from FlippedNormals which helped a lot. it teaches you everything you need to know to get started :)

[@FlippedNormals]

Awesome Enrique! :D So happy to hear you liked it. Was there anything particular you found to be useful? Keep up the sculpting, and you'll kick all sorts of ass in no time :D

[@Dusk1990]

The anatomy tips and the fundamentals you guys talked about are always super helpful. Looking forward to more videos from you guys :)

[@user-vp1gw2zh7f]

Don't get me wrong, but I would feel the tension in your place. Imagine how to go to this last year’s video and see your sculpture. And then think, "How did I progress for this year?" This is also such a motivation)

[@MilliydieChillkroete]

Anyone else sat in front of whatever they are looking the video on mimicking facial expressions? What a great way to go about learning anatomy!

[@SatansNutsack]

Best Zbrush tutorials on KZbin by far

[@FlippedNormals]

Cheers! :D

[@allengerminal8178]

Thanks for this lot of info! Having fun listening and watching to your channel while working.

[@FlippedNormals]

Thanks :D

[@ianmiller5133]

That's a really good point about finding your own sources and mixing them instead of looking up "Orc". Never thought about it like that...

[@pandoraskeyboard]

I Discovered that undo bug earlier today! If only I watched this video first. Also, great video guys.

[@JeanLucMG]

I LOVED it! The video is very useful AND the commentary is very entertaining!

[@FlippedNormals]

Thank you!

[@sakshamjain9151]

Thank you so much to both of you guys👌👌😄😄...we love your work you content amazing 🧒🧒👌👌and very useful I am a beginner in this field and I found my skills increasing drastically after watching the tutorials and lessons..😎😎😄😄

[@johnny_belmont]

Great video guys. As always. Damn! 🤘

[@rightalex7]

Sculpting podcast is great idea, is so much information

[@WesleyVanroose]

You guys are just the best! Thank you for this vid :)

[@FlippedNormals]

Thanks Wesley!

[@mikkelmelby]

great stuff! really cool deformations and theory!

[@FlippedNormals]

Thank you!

[@nxtlvl2116]

great video as always and may i ask question . . . . . what brush u use ?

[@erttttt21]

with what resolution of the dynamesh do you start sculpting? and do you increase that resolution in the process with dynamesh or by subdividing geometry?

[@projetoization]

Great lesson! Thank You!

[@FlippedNormals]

Cheers man!

[@aachahai]

Awesome tips and tricks.. Thanks a lot for sharing

[@FlippedNormals]

Thank you!

[@TheAxebeard]

I've used the more expensive Intuous, the Cintiq, and PC tablets. I'm now using a 8x10" or so XP-Pen Chinesium import for $30. Works just as well as the $3,000 Cintiq.

[@daniboiyy]

The cg gods have blessed us once again 🙇 !

[@FlippedNormals]

🙏🙏

[@marutsubba]

Can you make one video on realistic Eye ball. There is not much video online. Thanks and great video as always.

[@arnasmichailovas8232]

Just can't get enough of them :D !!!!!

[@FlippedNormals]

Thank you :D

[@aidenstill7179]

your videos are great!

[@FlippedNormals]

Thank you so much!

[@c.glazercrush3994]

I was on a KZbin forum,what comes up is to slightly misalign the face because no ones face is that proportionate when perfecting a face.It rings true what do you think.

[@RahfeN]

I really like this mentorship effect of yours videos, they help me a lot in terms of perspective. Do you guys plan to have some sort of a review/critique episodes in the future? I think that would be awesome to see littles takes from you on ours work!

[@FlippedNormals]

Hey! Much appreciated :) We've been talking about it - would be good fun.

[@RahfeN]

FlippedNormals yeeey

[@TheCrestent1]

I feel your obsession, except with old ladies necks, they're just so interesting too look at... especially Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin when I was watching Grace and Frankie...

[@prezadent1]

Hey Henalymorton, love your videos. Can you give the other guy a shout out ever now and then?

[@justVontadeh]

Henalymorton lol

[@markkuykendall1751]

Henning....and...Morten.

[@smockytubers1188]

I thought it was Jennian Morten the first time I saw a video of there's. Like he was Norwegian or something.

[@FlippedNormals]

This is my favorite comment :D

[@rexleelingfeng5745]

hi guys, may i know what is a scan ? as recommended by flipped normals to be used as anatomy reference, because if i search for scans all of it is medical xray scans

[@ehabcharek]

ayee one of the first few!

[@Joh00226]

guys u are awsome ! . Would love to send one of my sculpts for tips and enhancements to you! , keep up the good work

[@FlippedNormals]

Hey! Do you have a link to one of your sculpts? We dont usually take requests, as we do these videos once we come over a specific model which is worth sculpting over. That said, I'll take a look! :) /H

[@Joh00226]

hello , ye sure do u want me to send the file or pics ? , figured the file would help more.. cheers mate

[@FlippedNormals]

You can send me screenshots at henning at flippednormals.com :)

[@Joh00226]

FlippedNormals cool Will do that thanks alot

[@DavidAllen_0]

I got an intuos for $20 on Amazon. It was on sale and used.. but it was all I could afford. It's a Huion and I heard they're good for starters, however I notice a lot of issues with the sensitivity. Sometimes in substance painter, the paint permanently activates, so I wind up painting all over the model. Othertimes in ZBrush, it'll draw a straight like instantly across the tool for no reason at all. Nothing an undo can't fix but it gets irritating. So in essence, I got what I paid for. lol

[@shinobi471]

I have been following all the helpful tips you guys have been providing in your sculpting videos and its evident how important anatomy is for proper sculpting. So can u guys recommend something like maybe a book, software or maybe something to study anatomy properly?

[@FlippedNormals]

Hey! This is a fantastic resource: anatomy4sculptors.com/art/

[@josephbrandenburg4373]

Proko.com is a great resource for free, and the paid version is worth the money.

[@Yukianevlum]

I see you guys mentioning your discord, but I don't see a link to it, is it by invite only? Also, your videos are very insightful :)

[@enpremi]

Great and practical video as usual guys. You mentioned asymmetry at the end of the video and I was wondering if you could do a shorter one about how to break symmetry, without breaking the form. Because moving areas randomly in 3D is very rarely a good way to achieve a convincing result. But you two have years of experience so it would be really helpful if you share your insight into this topic. It doesn't need to be just about faces or human body in general.

[@FlippedNormals]

Thats actually a really good idea! We'll do one for sure. Added to our list.

[@GryphonDes]

Just throwing it out there but there are some fantastic 'children's Cross-Section Books' that illustrate from the skin outwards how all manner of things are put together -- they've been one of my go-to references in the old school camp for years (I found about 1/2 of my collection at those discount book sales that pass through time to time. Stephen Biesty's stuff is great :) you can grab one in Hardcover from Amazon for all of $3-$8 heheh :D anatomy for the organics, Biesty for the rest :P

[@FlippedNormals]

Ah nice! Thats cool

[@edwinter4816]

I'm agree with the Henalymorton guy! And are you planing to launch videos over some schedule or just random? I miss my video for today u.u

[@FlippedNormals]

We'll usually have two main videos, Mondays and Thursdays, with one sometimes on Wednesdays too. A lot to do this week, so had to down-prio it :( /Henlaymorton

[@BathroomTile]

You mentioned towards the end how breaking symmetry improves the characters, but not to do it in a production. Does it have anything to do with the topology for animation? What would be the answer then? Should we do the manual topology before breaking symmetry, and then reimporting into Zbrush to do that?

[@FlippedNormals]

Yes that's exactly it! :) For production, it's really important that the topology is symmetrical, or you're in a world of pain. Obviously you need to break symmetry if you have 3 arms and such, but in general you really wanna keep it symmetrical.

[@JettzCG]

Was just about to ask this myself, good thing I scrolled down lmao.

[@BathroomTile]

But by symmetrical, you don't mean that every vertex on the right has a mirrored one on the left at the exact negative value, right? Just that for each polygon on one side there's a mirrored one on the other side, but with its position tweaked to become asymmetrical, right? Thanks for answering by the way.

[@Radicalshikami]

do more of this pls

[@michaelsulesky7221]

will you post the in depth retopo vid you hinted at on twitter recently?

[@FlippedNormals]

It will probably take some weeks go get out. It's actually a full premium series, showing how to retopo a full body. We'll definitely upload a part of it on KZbin too :)

[@michaelsulesky7221]

FlippedNormals ok awesome! Cant wait to see it, retopo vids are so satisfying to watch I cant get enough of them haha

[@yahlimendler2898]

What would be a good place to share my stuff and get good critique?

[@FlippedNormals]

Our Discord actually! :) discord.gg/uXtDUqs

[@josephbrandenburg4373]

There's forums for that kind of thing, too. Polycount, for instance, but I don't know if that one focusses on games or not. There are a bunch out there.

[@m4r_art]

Couldn't they possibly Ziva Dynamics the hulk? My guess is they use a complex subsurface muscle system with a bunch of mat caps while they test animation. Eventually that affecting the surface mesh?...

[@FlippedNormals]

No idea if they used Ziva on it, but we've used it on recent movies. You still need to sculpt bespoke blend shapes though, as they have to be crafted by hand. Combine it with an awesome muscle sim and you're golden.

[@m4r_art]

FlippedNormals knew it =D ziva is a beast

[@orun1]

The comment with the number 💯

[@IfthiAli]

I start retopologising and then this video drops lol

[@ZaneDevon]

Who is the sculptor mentioned at 32:15? I can't quite tell what he's saying.

[@FlippedNormals]

Simon Lee! He's amazing: www.bigbluetree.com/

[@rodkkkk]

How i can get into the discord u guys have?

[@FlippedNormals]

discord.gg/uXtDUqs :)

[@xerxespng6914]

how do i join your discord?

[@yuhesdance1380]

interesting

[@OxLOOKxWHOxJUST]

how can I join the discord?

[@FlippedNormals]

hub.flippednormals.com/ Link in the banner here :)

[@dinesh7132]

I saw most of your tutorials still finding hard to make head sculpts from photos is there any way zbrush can auto model from photos. i even bought some tutorials realistic male face still so hard. Nowadays everything is made easy I'm sure there is way to create in little bit easy way. Please help me

[@mufasa2079]

patience

[@tfg_8564]

I watch this then try to do it in blender

[@StudioArtFX]

So... Are you afraid of Kim Jung Gi suddenly learning ZBrush? :D

[@naughtyadventuresofmcbrouh5410]

Yolo is not da wae, friends. Reference it all!

[@Eternal_23]

Hi

[@FlippedNormals]

Whazzup

[@Eternal_23]

FlippedNormals how about making in-depth tutorial about this method of retopologizing??? kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5y2kn1nl5mEkLc

[@mahrcheen]

At the end it looks like yawning with no teeth :P

[@marutsubba]

Can you make one video on realistic Eye ball. There is not much video online. Thanks and great video as always.

[@FlippedNormals]

Ah yes, good idea! Adding to our list :)

[@xorxfirst9928]

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