Start sculpting with Zbrush - absolute beginners tutorial

[@wonderman305]

This is THE BEST Zbrush intro I have seen to date! You’re a great teacher!

[@niladrisekharbiswas6762]

who the hell disliked this video....man this video is well detailed

[@UQO_FreeIClone]

smart teacher is when you learning from him . he can change you to be better. Thanks

[@JamesEarlCash]

Bought Your classes, and I love them. You're a great teacher.

[@ai_and_chill]

FINALLY someone who explains things clearly

[@Sogi020]

You're one of the best 3D/sculpting teachers I've seen. It's obvious that you're a very experienced, knowledgable, and kind person. I've spent a few months learning Blender 2.8 (coming from some previous Blender usage and 3DS Max years ago), which has decent sculpting in it, and your "from scratch" human male sculpting video was really inspiring and pushed me to sculpt more. You don't waste too much time and it's amazing watching you work, because every one of your strokes has a clear purpose and a lot of experience behind them. Very efficient. It's great that you can just make the lips in a few strokes, even at low poly, and you already get the "gesture" down. Zbrush seems to handle much more "polygons" (or rather pixels/pixols) and details better than blender, so I'm looking to switch over. This beginner tutorial helps. I appreciate it and I'm looking forward to more videos.

[@SpeedChar]

Comments like this are what inspires me to make those videos. Thank you ! :)

[@mathieuvart]

Thanks for all the videos, you are a good teacher man.

[@robertmoats1890]

It was a great idea to show only the basics. Most of the starter videos on KZbin are enormous. You explained only what is critical to begin. This will be a huge help to people who are just starting out. Me, I just watched it because your positive spirit is so contagious.

[@EC-gy9pv]

Excellent tutorial. Very clear explanation, easy to follow up and create the first sculpture. Thank you!

[@evagrius3818]

Man i literally just started today (still using a mouse but i’ll try to get a tablet asap) and this short actually helped me a lot ! Thank you so much, hope you’ll be doing more of these !

[@captainfantastic3490]

Great Teacher. Explaining Things Clearly.

[@echojk1312]

Hey, Nikolay! Awesome tutorials and it sure made everything more clear to me. After watching your sculpting of the female head it really became obvious to me that having less polygons in the beginning is very efficient way of workflow and the sculpting not only became faster but also better!

[@SpeedChar]

I am glad that it helped you become better artist :)

[@TonyG718]

You’re going to be my instructor from here on out. You have the best Zbrush tutorials on KZbin. I paid for a course on Udemy and wanted to give up afterwards. I’m going to try Zbrush again with your teaching.

[@SpeedChar]

Thank you man. I am flattered, but i also made some Zbrush courses that are on udemy, but they are for intermediate users of Zbrush. Maybe soon i will have to make a complete course for beginners to fill the gap :).

[@TonyG718]

SpeedChar Awesome! We’re a 2D comic studio but we are just starting to build game assets and trying to find the right software to try out. I just added you on Artstation and I LOVE your work! You can see on my Artstation the very first sculpture I did in Zbrush. That was easy but now I’m stuck on arms, legs and fingers. Going to enroll in your courses on Udemy now.

[@SpeedChar]

@@TonyG718 my courses are only for intermediate Zbrush users, I rarely show basic stuff there, so most beginners are frustrated by them. But if you have the will power, by the middle of the course you will be intermediate user :). A question of motivation, you know.

[@sugercane333]

I have learnt a lot from you. Thank you so much for making all these video =D

[@Tetsugakumono]

Thank you! You are a very great teacher, easy to understand and follow, finally Zbrush doesn't look so terrifying to me. Hope you'll make some more videos for beginners, so that I'll have a solid base and skill before buying your tutorials on Artstation.

[@darkknight4353]

So underrated channel.... This channel should have at least 1m subs

[@SpeedChar]

Maybe the most flattering comment ever :) Thank you.

[@darkknight4353]

@@SpeedChar your anatomy skills is like Rafael grasetti. You should make live streams for pixologic. It will bring more traffic to your channel.

[@tefiksahin5773]

good work I closely follow your work and very good. if you can shoot zbrush video about sheet and coloring. thankyou

[@zankane543]

Very nice tutorial! Thanks Man!

[@mediaglitz2023]

when i import obj to zbrush the field of view is not working the model just look flat face not look what exactly look in c4d or maya. why the field of view is not working when importing obj in zbrush

[@SpeedChar]

The perspective in Zbrush is a little tricky. You can adjust it under the Draw menu.

[@TariqAq]

Thanks for the tut. Could you recommend a drawing tablet? please!

[@maxgrechkovskiy7798]

Dude, thank you so much for your tutorials. Your vidioes so helped me in learn anatomy, it's true. Good Luck Budy )

[@darkknight4353]

@5:00 zbrush also utilize ram :) the more ram you have the higher you can go with poly counts without lag. I have 10 gb I can go up to 17m. That's why 16 GB ram is recommended

[@SpeedChar]

I am with 32 Gb and my bottleneck is the processor.

[@darkknight4353]

@@SpeedChar at how much polycount?

[@SpeedChar]

@@darkknight4353 Not sure, I always try to not go too far with my poly count:)

[@graphicanjelo]

Finally saw your face Niko! :)

[@BINNO-cv5sk]

Cant wait to finish college!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@sevenseven31]

how to fix the perspective setting and can you add a tutorial about sculpting with mouse only if you want of course

[@SpeedChar]

It is useless to try with the mouse. You can do it of course but it will be like eating soup with a shovel :)

[@sevenseven31]

:) you can use the mouse but using the geometry and boolean but for the small details is hard to get i know

[@akuma0009]

what tablet with kind of good simple budget u recommend to buy ?

[@КириллКузнецов-п9ф]

Hi, I've bought your course of the orc rider model. So far glad about that. Thanks. By the way its kinda funny to learn from another russian (or bulgarian?) in english ))

[@SpeedChar]

Although i understand russian like 70% i am not russian :). I am from Bulgaria man. Hope the course is interesting enough for you to watch it all the way to the end and also do it yourself at the same time :).

[@tlilmiztli]

Hey man, I was dumb enough to not save my custom UI and now I am setting up everything once again from scratch for ZB2020. I looked again at your video about customizing ZB and I have one question. In the video you have some material called "Metal 01" which is like metal with strong, yellow rim light. I have set something similar for myself but would it be possible for you to share yours? I understand if you dont have time or dont want to do so, but it would be really cool if you could. Anyways it doesnt hurt to ask ;) Thanks for everything - back to setting ZB2020...

[@SpeedChar]

Metal 01 is a normal material, which means that it doesn't have rim light on it. The rim light comes from the second light i have added to the scene.

[@tlilmiztli]

@@SpeedChar Thanks man, I wasn't sure if that's how it was done, but that's how I created it too :) Really cool for highlighting edges.

[@kurozeitsuki7846]

Thanks for the tutorial! I have one question : what button do you press to recenter your view? eg : when you turn around and want to get back to the front of your face

[@SpeedChar]

Hello, while you rotate you can press Shift to snap to front or side view. But centering the object to viewport is done with F key.

[@kurozeitsuki7846]

@@SpeedChar thanks for the fast reply!

[@ameer6168]

It is ok to use mouse as a beignner ?

[@SpeedChar]

Of course. You can get used to the program, to the interface and the navigation just by using a mouse. If you wanna sculpt efficient though, you will need a tablet.

[@ameer6168]

@@SpeedChar yes i will get one in next month

[@araraararaevna9795]

Thank you!!!)

[@hermes8473]

Hi SpeedChar do you make custom sculptures?

[@SpeedChar]

Hello, Jay. All my sculptures are custom :)

[@kamp9580]

Do you think knowing how to draw is required to sculpt well in Zbrush, or can you just dive right into sculpting with no drawing experience? Also, can you draw?

[@SpeedChar]

Yeah I can draw better than most and it helps. Although it is not mandatory.

[@Ulujmf]

Zbrush is so counter intuitive. Also the menu writing is so small and dark

[@MrSanson]

Become a Twitcher Streamer, my friend :)

[@SpeedChar]

I have two kids, full time job and freelance, so i barely have time to do these short tutorials :). But some day...