ZBrush Hard Surface - Tips & Tricks VOL. 1

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Hey y'all! VOL.2 is now out! kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5XYapV-na95bKM

[@trevital1422]

-Time Stamped -Directly to the point -practical examples -digestible segments -under an hour Fantastic tutorial hope to see more from you.

[@Glitch-Gremlin]

Amen to that! i Would totally PAY for these Tutorials! that's how good this is. the only thing i can say is the Mic/Sound Quality could be better. but that's *IT!*

[@jkim8496]

wow its really usefull to me!! GREAT AWESOME!!! from South Korea

[@a.kromatyk]

This is one of the most valuable tutorial I have ever seen for Zbrush. Awesome. Keep it up Good Sir!!!!!

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Thank you so much!!! Really appreciate the comment 😀

[@3DwithHussam]

The best tutorial I have ever seen directly to the point + no unnecessary talks

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Happy to hear that it delivered! Vol. 2 is being released tomorrow in the same format - so stay tuned!

[@3DwithHussam]

@@BTHardSurfaceConcept do you offer tutorials? I sent an email to you.

[@Andres-wq6cz]

Thank you very much

[@samanthahaddock]

Thank you so much 🙏 Saving to a playlist to rewatch again and again

[@parallaxoldchannel]

Thank you for sharing your time and knowledge with us. I greatly appreciate you for it.

[@semma_98]

this is the best tutorial i've seen!! love your channel!!

[@adsicon]

Thanks man for the tips. This is one of the most useful hard surface tutorials I've seen so far. Thank you so much 💖

[@kp_ke]

Best Hard Surface tips video I've come across. Thanks

[@sergiovelandia3d370]

One of the best tutorials . Bless

[@edrevvvv]

Best zbrush video ive seen so far

[@WarriorOfModernDeath]

Very much thankful for the amount of quality advice contained in this video!

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

You're welcome! Hope it helps! :D

[@PodCortes54143]

The best video about Hard Surface i've seen! Thank you so much.

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Glad it was helpful!

[@vishnurajan6430]

Couldn't find something better than this..you are awsome🔥

[@DesmondHolt]

😮 Man you've legendary. I don’t say that lightly 🎉

[@warwickdoolan6227]

Thank you. I look forward to seeing more videos from you in the future

[@peachteas]

I just did my first hardsurface sculpt thanks to this!! It's always been something I've wanted to do but it looked so intimidating. This really simplified it down into a handful of tips and tricks. Can't wait to continue getting comfortable with it and making sweet robots.

[@najormp2667]

This video is GOLD! Thanks Breki! I'll help you out here too :D

[@nategreyson6014]

Dude this is amazing. You are amazing... lost for words.

[@iamcoffeerepublic]

just dropping a thank you.

[@lucasrudolph3685]

This the most consise, well made and informative video about 3D that ive seen on youtube - and its for free thank you a lot for making this!

[@codem1lo2011]

FANTASTIC OVERVIEW, Thankyou!!!

[@girevik0]

Big thank you for sharing you knowledge!i already know a lot of for hard surface sculpting,but i have digged it around one year from different artists!!but here you can see all useful technic just in one video!! great work!!

[@RH3D]

holy SHIT that model's clean... Subbed - looking forward to VOL. 2 !

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Thanks bruv! Working on getting something for VOL. 2 right now!

[@Glitch-Gremlin]

Damn dude... your channel needs/deserves *WAY* more Subs!

[@danvincentbarotilla5550]

Maaaaannnnnn this tutorial is so easy to understand and very usefull thanks a lot.!! you deserve more likes and follows keep it up

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Maaaan I appreciate it a ton!! Vol. 2 is dropping tomorrow so definitely check it out!

[@ray3dx661]

Fantastic Tutorial, With everything that you have taught here, one can make anything. Thank you so much. I have been struggling to find a good hard-surface zbrush tutorial.

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Extremely glad to hear that - now go and make some epic hard surface things!

[@O_rik]

Amazing video! Thank you!

[@ivanaguirre9866]

YOUUUU AREEEE A CRACCCKKK!! AMAZINGGG VIDEOOOO

[@Overlord1241]

Wow! This is incredibly informative and precise, brevity is on point, and thanks for including the 3d model too!

[@felixdsouza5958]

Thank you Breki for making this video 😊👌

[@owl5523]

This is GOLD

[@romanfirestone940]

Awesome tips man, thanks so much for sharing this!

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Thank you for the support, bruv!!

[@tridungly2148]

take my subs mate ! Thank you so much for yours effort !

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Appreciate the support mate! Thanks a ton!!

[@milesbagley1609]

I learned quite a bit from this. Thank you!

[@ModifyChanelLive]

yoo thank you BT, lots of useful information

[@supernatural802]

this is a fantastic resource. Thanks!

[@lake2035]

very nice video Thank you!!!

[@dodruku]

great collection of tips, thanks!

[@lihangwang1518]

Awesome！ I'm learning zbrush hardsurface now. your tutorial is aweosme and easy to learn. can't wait for the next. I will like to buy it

[@gvtrie]

Great set of tips! thanks so much!

[@VertexCarver]

Really nice ^^ Thank you for sharing this, world of difference with the context you've included.

[@pixbstudios]

Really good tutorial. Thanks 👍

[@gauravjain4249]

Amazing Sir, Thanks a lot it's so helpful to learn about hard surfaces in ZBrush.

[@medv007]

Nice vid, helped me a lot, looking forward to more vids like this

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Vol. 2 coming soon! 😉

[@arnobax7953]

This video is really good! Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge.

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Happy to help!

[@hanthonypiano]

Seen some of your stuff & i like your taste!! Interested to see how you progress. Thx for making this

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Thank you!! Stay tuned for future content, I think you might like it!

[@ozkanakyurek1049]

Golden, thank you.

[@tr3buh]

this is great tutorial, thanks!

[@EsWarNotwehr]

Thanks a lot for this video - even if it wasnt supposed to be for interface improvement. It looks really Clean and thoughtful - so that was the cherry on top of the cool tips for hard surface modelling. Thank you! stay healthy and have a nice christmas vacation :)

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Thanks a ton! I am releasing my user interface for free with Vol. 2 so stay tuned if you want to download that!

[@jvh927]

Awesome compilation of tips!! Hope to see more from you like this :)

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Happy to hear that! Currently jotting something down for Vol 2 so stay tuned!

[@CarlosPrGr]

You have to do more content, very good channel. Still being so good!

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

haha thank you so much!! I am on it, stay tuned for vol. 2!

[@warhammerboy95]

Fantastic work as always!

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Thank you sir! ;)

[@MichaelChin1994]

I would love to see an update considering the new Bevel Brushes!

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

On it, sir!

[@adem_belhassen771]

underratedd

[@Arvolve]

Super neat, thanks!

[@tanphan.3d]

thank so much for your help

[@omid5689]

best video so far big thanks really useful 👏👏👏

[@TheSatzy6699]

Excellent 👌

[@Elijah_Art]

so cool)) amazing

[@raulabonitalla4647]

thank you bro. this is amazing techniques

[@overpowersyblus7148]

This is grate video

[@julythrunov]

My mind is blown

[@mohsendehnavi2252]

nice tutorial

[@unity3dnftgames]

GOAT

[@jeffbecket2311]

Dude you're awesome, I'm gonna tag you with the suit I'm making

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Thanks bruv and please do, can't wait!

[@DRONEMANMARC]

would love to see how you use the bevel brushes but also the knife lasso and knife cut in your workflow.

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

I'll maybe cover them in Vol.2 but so far I haven't used them any differently so not sure if I should cover them or not!

[@MegaEskew]

Wow awsome tips thanks, how did you do the apply round corners to mask macro?

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

It's in the default settings in ZBrush

[@MetricRepeat]

😎👍

[@Ivan-tg6xt]

GRACIAS!!

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

DE NADA!!

[@user-vxh7ml2ug4c]

Sub, like, comment, ty very much man best tips video

[@luisalberto7417]

Damn! I just came across this video and is fire!! 👍🏼👍🏼 quick question.. how are you able to start dragging a mask somewhere and then move it somewhere else and continue dragging it? Thank you!

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Thanks a ton bruv!! So when you are dragging with any masking tool you can hold spacebar to move it elsewhere

[@MrFede778]

This looks so amazing!! One question though: how in hell Is one going to be able to unwrap and texture something like this???

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Haha I feel ya! I always manually retopo something like this in Maya if I want get it game ready! ;)

[@MrFede778]

@@BTHardSurfaceConcept let's say you dont Need It to be game ready, you just want to get a render out of It. How would you go about texturing this? Thanks for your reply

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

@@MrFede778 If I just do the high poly, then I pose the character and then I usually toss it into Keyshot and create custom materials in there! After that I use Photoshop to bring it all together

[@MrFede778]

@@BTHardSurfaceConcept Thank you!!!

[@jpeg.jordaan]

Quite like the UI. is it available some where?

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

I'll make it available when I release VOL.2 sometime in November!

[@dodruku]

Hi Breki Thor, I'm watching in preparation for the live session tonight. 19:16 have you tried using the old move transpose line with backface masking? It'll do the same thing in one stroke and pretty clean tooo. I usually go to the backface mask curve and make it very convex so that the move grabs more points. It works great if you want to quickly fill a space behind a shape, no matter the complexity. It'll work with rotate as well. Scale doesn't do what I'd expect it to though.

[@dodruku]

... and since backface masking doesn't work with the gizmo you can easily switch between the two methods on the fly.

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Oh thanks man, will check it out! Hope you got something out of the live workshop!

[@dodruku]

@@BTHardSurfaceConcept Oh I sure did and quite a bit at that! I'm more used to working with zmodeler but I see how this dynamesh workflow could be faster for some stuff. I'd have to practice using it more to become efficient.

[@jacintodesign]

Very nice tutorial, congrats bro, and thanks for share. How you made the matcap you use?

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

You got it, my dude! hehe that's a secret 😉

[@512design4]

i would like you to show how ur set up the round corners ( i can see you ve recorf thi s before hand in in the macro ) masking ive been looking making unable to locate how set this up ...

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

It's a default macro that comes with ZBrush! You should be able to find it in the Macros menu, I didn't create it

[@anab0lic]

When doing hardsuface stuff like this do you prefer to use mouse or tablet pen?

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Tablet pen! I use a Large Wacom Intuos pro

[@cantthinkofaname925]

Hey quick question, I've notice similar artist having the same grey background in zbush and was wondering if it helps with hard surfacing or just a personal touch?

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Hey! Nah it's purely personal, I used to have a darker background but then I decided to move to a lighter grey background and I feel like it just helps a little bit - I don't know why haha

[@xylionstudio]

Hello teacher, I wanted to ask you a technical question, how do you manage to place 2 tool menus on the right?, in the interface. I can't do it. I could help. greetings success

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Aloha, I am not sure if this is the right thing you are asking of but I think on the tool menu itself you can grab the grey icon in the upper left corner of the menu and then drag it to the side!

[@Ashish-xf9uw]

damn man u r just great just op very well lubu #nohomo

[@JC-ov8ko]

Looking at the intro image, I am confused on how to bring all those tips and pieces together to make something like that. Do you model with a traditional base mesh or maybe this is something that should be covered in a full video? Or paid tutorial. Either.

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Hey man, thanks! This video was more like general hard surface tips and tricks. I sometimes work from primitives, basemeshes or scans! What would you like to see in another video? Would you want me to tackle the full process in a future video? Would be free, of course.

[@nayandurge8877]

Sir can you make organic hard surface like robot tutorials and texturing

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Yessir! Will do for future vids!

[@maricorp.449]

when i use rectangle mask to mask the side of the cube, the area masked is much larger and innacurate.

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

You might have perspective turned on?

[@maricorp.449]

@@BTHardSurfaceConcept that was it. Thank you. Great tutorial.

[@davidtikwa423]

curious if you have your UI downloadable?

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

You can grab a copy of it right here broski: www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/MGL8A/bt-zbrush-custom-hard-surface-u-i-2022?

[@512design4]

were fo i change the masking properties enable the round corner technique ,, round the edges of the mask

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Macros menu!

[@FlowerPower3000]

Cool.... hope Maxon will not kill Zbrush...

[@DevGods]

How did you make those custom buttons to do repetitive tasks like the extract thin up in the top right of the UI? Is that a plug-in?

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

I created a custom macro, you can see it quickly in action here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIiooYhtgdOrbtU&ab_channel=DannyMac3D

[@DevGods]

@@BTHardSurfaceConcept ah cool! Thanks!

[@KamilHaddadM]

Do you have a way for a clean bevel on a curved edge?

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Hey! You could test out the new bevel brushes that come with default zbrush!

[@KamilHaddadM]

@@BTHardSurfaceConcept It doesn’t work with curved edges. It stops beveling when the radius changes enough. You can repeat but won’t get it clean and consistent. Thanks for answering :)

[@sidharthsaseendran6989]

1:50 HOW ARE YOU REFRESHING IT?

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

HOLD CTRL & DRAG IN THE VIEWPORT MY DUDE!

[@stephon972]

what metcap is that

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

It's a custom material I created!

[@stephon972]

@@BTHardSurfaceConcept oh ok thanks I really like it

[@lld5461]

I should know you earlier.

[@kowy_m]

can u share nash brushes ?

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

All the resources mentioned are in the description - but here is a direct link to getting them on his Gumroad: mikeandrewnash.gumroad.com/l/pSfIc

[@RafaelSalesDuarte]

Don't you use Zremesh?

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Every now and then ;)

[@nitrogamesstudios5276]

how do you place the mask in the right position that you want without losing your mask???

[@BTHardSurfaceConcept]

Holding down spacebar should do the trick!

[@sivapandianreffreference]

WOW Amazing

[@KEYS2SMILE]

[@TheSatzy6699]

Excellent 👌