Zbrush 2021 - Export Sculpted Animations Using Layers And Dynamics

[@TravisDavids]

0:00 Intro 0:06 What To Expect During The Tutorial 1:32 Opening Our Project File In Zbrush 1:48 Merging The Subtools 2:22 Exporting The Default State As An Obj 2:37 How To Record & Export A Dynamic Simulation In Zbrush 3:38 Preparing The Animated File In Blender For Export To Other Programs 5:20 Exporting Alembic Format To Use In Other Programs Like Cinema 4D 5:45 Importing Our Alembic Animated File Into Cinema 4D 6:28 Extra Tips - Manually Sculpting Animation In Zbrush Using The Cloth Brushes 9:50 Make An Object Collide With Other Geometry Using Dynamic Simulation In Zbrush 11:43 Outro So I've really been enjoying the new Dynamics feature in Zbrush but did you guys know that you can actually record a dynamic simulation as an animation and export it out of Zbrush? You can even record every single brush stroke you make with the new cloth brushes. You're essentially sculpting animation, it's super fun to do! Enjoy!

[@LeFantasticPlanet]

This is exactly what I was looking for. Zbrush Animation! Thanks, Travis!

[@TravisDavids]

My pleasure! I think it's really cool that you can do animation related stuff with zbrush as well.

[@ryanmassiah]

Is there a way to by pass the Blender step, and bring it into C4D directly?

[@ilmedvedCG]

Amazing tip, thank you!

[@SwitchMaxFX]

this new zbrush update just took it to a whole new level.

[@TravisDavids]

Indeed! The update is amazing!

[@zigfaust]

Did you update to 2021.6 yet? Hair and Armor Update has been insanity so far!

[@kaonashi3D]

This is fantastic thank u

[@uzzellart]

Hi Travis, great video, thanks for sharing. I was wondering if you could use this method for blend shapes?

[@zorbutanofalis]

Hi, Travis. I'm trying to import an alembic animation into ZBrush 2021; the first frame works perfectly, but the animation does not play while scrubbing through the timeline. Is this mechanic possible in 2021? Thanks!

[@Meteotrance]

can i do that with ABC alembic file, i have big issue with the new version of blender 3.0 with MDD file.

[@edagurses8277]

Omg thank you so much

[@claraluzian]

Hey Travis, thank you as usual!!! Is it possible to skip blender in between zbrush and cinema? thanks!!

[@TravisDavids]

I'm sure there is a method but this is the only one i know. It's super easy and Blender is free, you're just using it quickly to get it into the correct format.

[@claraluzian]

@@TravisDavids yes! I did it and was crazy easy, THANK YOU TRAVIS, YOU'RE THE BEST AT TUTS.

[@claraluzian]

hey Travis I just find the problem that blender changes the orientation or the axis from the original obj file once I import the recorded animation and the geometry is turned from right to left..any thoughts on this?

[@jacobmcconnell]

How mant "wows" is too many?

[@brandondigital_]

Hey Travis why are you migrating from Cinema4D to Blender?

[@TravisDavids]

Hi Brandon, i'm not migrating, Blender is just a tool like Cinema 4D. I still use Cinema 4D for it's mograph tools and Octane Render since i paid for the plugin for Cinema 4D. I never use one program exclusively, i like to experiment. I'm using Blender a lot more nowadays because of the awesome plugins, it's modeling tools and it's real time render engine called Eevee.

[@thedholes2620]

Massive

[@TravisDavids]

Pretty awesome update for Zbrush. I'm super happy to see Dynamic Simulations.