ZBrush Tutorial - Using Dynamesh and ZRemesher the right way

[@Charlie_Alpha_Lima]

Wow! I've been BATTLING with a sculpt I'm busy with and you've just showed me what I was doing wrong, not to mention you finally cleared up for me the difference between Z-remeshing and dynameshing. You sir should be an instructor. Thank you! You just got a new sub. I will go through all your Z-brush videos

[@artofjhill]

+CallMeLum awe thanks man, I appreciate it. glad I could help

[@Herbsttypen]

Same for me now. Thx J Hill! *.*

[@artofjhill]

you're welcome!

[@dfritz411]

Wow. I'm so used to watching a guy from Isreal on a Lenovo laptop demonstrate something with no sound or captions at 240p. Please continue making clear and concise videos, very refreshing. Thanks!

[@artofjhill]

Thanks dude! Will do

[@feralmode]

@@artofjhill you kept your promise. well done. this video is still useful in 2024. even though the tools have changed slightly.

[@TheRustedPixel]

"a pixel canvas where all the pixels arn't the same size" that is an absolute gem of a line. Thank you! You've made this so much clearer and easier to understand. Subscribed!

[@artofjhill]

thanks :)

[@carlasb]

Amazing, the best explanation about the differences between dynamesh, zremesher and divide ever!

[@artofjhill]

Carla Soriani yay!

[@dbal_3d]

absolutely agree!

[@SHAP00PIE]

Nice video thank you! I like that you not only explained the tools, but gave insight to how it relates to your workflow

[@artofjhill]

Glad you found it helpful!

[@Spartakips]

I'm on my first serious sculpt and I've been struggling trying to get things smoothed out and detailed for weeks, but this explains SO MUCH!! Thank you very much for sharing and explaining everything so clearly!

[@artofjhill]

you're welcome! good luck with your sculpt :)

[@charlesxstorm]

Thanks for the great tutorial...Many people out there just talk about using the dynamesh without stressing the need to "get your forms and get the hell out of dynamesh"..Thanks for showing me the fundamental i was never told about.

[@DanGoodchild]

I'm just getting into ZBrush and I found this video to be fantastically helpful in understanding the difference between Dynamesh and ZRemesher. Thanks for making it!

[@Yt-jc5sj]

You explain very, VERY well. Honestly I think one of the best tuto I've seen in a long time. There are so many people out there that make informative but badly made tutorials. Your's is easy to follow

[@artofjhill]

thanks man, I appreciate it and I'm glad I could help

[@jitzha]

9 years later and still saving life, very knowledgeable

[@artofjhill]

[@matt_one]

I started to learn Zbrush 3 weeks ago and I watched tons of videos. I was much confused. This video has made clear, this video is crucial, fundamental. I would have liked to watch it before. I'm pretty sure that your channel is a gold mine, Thanks!

[@artofjhill]

+matt one thanks man, I appreciate that!

[@EasirVfx]

What a level of teaching. I really appriciated...

[@EvilShadex]

Wow, what an amazing tutorial. You explained the whole process so well and clear. The process of using dynamesh and z-remesher make so much more sense, thank you!

[@Itscynthiayo]

you just saved my life man, i didn't get it at all how to work with these things! THANKS!

[@jonmcclintock8936]

Def the most concise way of explaining Dynamesh and Zremesher that I've seen. Thanks!

[@Bls61793]

One of the best tutorials I've ever seen. Succicnt, but you still explain WHY things are done a certain way. Very good.

[@artofjhill]

thanks, glad it helped

[@QuiqueSaldivar]

Thanks J !! in just 10 minutes you made it clear on how to implement an optimal work flow.. Thanks!!!

[@GooDogProductions]

This is one of the most exciting features of ZBrush. To use Bezier curves to work for you in 3D. I kind of found out about that on my own but your tutorial really nails it and dissect it.

[@artofjhill]

cool, glad you liked the video

[@trzarector]

Excellent video that so many other tutorials have failed to explain clearly. You're video just explained exactly what I needed to hear.

[@artofjhill]

Glad I could help! Happy sculpting

[@dennou2012]

Damn. This was what I have been looking for whiteout knowing it. Big thanks!!!

[@artofjhill]

+dennou2012 you're welcome, glad it helped :)

[@oliverron5666]

Now this is a tutorial. Simple, straight to the point, and concise. Thank you good sir for your effort in making this tutorial. You just gained a subscriber.

[@artofjhill]

thanks dude, glad I could help

[@oliverron5666]

Just a quick question tho, I'm sculpting a figure for 3d printing and I'm wondering if I still need to use Zremesher or I can just sculpt away until high poly then onto the printing. Thanks in advance.

[@artofjhill]

Ron Oliver Rombo doesn't matter what its for, this all still applies. this is the best practice for sculpting in zbrush right now

[@oliverron5666]

Thank you man. For even taking the time to answer. You're the best.

[@artofjhill]

Ron Oliver Rombo np dude, good luck with your project!

[@Figster62]

As a newbie in zbrush this has been the most informative tutorial for workflow I have seen.

[@artofjhill]

glad to hear it. happy sculpting :)

[@risxu]

Omg, you have no idea how helpful this was. Second year at Uni studying Game Animation and Modelling, never understood the difference between these two/three. I really appreciate. :))

[@artofjhill]

Happy to hear that. gl with everything!

[@akhon]

Great video! I've been fighting with ZBrush for the longest time, trying to figure out the best workflow with DynaMesh and ZRemesher, and you answered a lot of my questions. Thank you!

[@ZahaX]

Nice, just starting to learn zbrush at school and this was the best comparaison ive seen. ty

[@seismosaursggiganoto]

I want to say thank you! What a clear tutorial! I hope that you are still making Zbrush tutorial~

[@artofjhill]

Thanks! I've been deep in making games and an online course but I want to get back to smaller tutorials soon! cheers

[@stoatyweasel]

Excellent. Going to look for more videos from you now. ZBrush has such a steep learning curve and KZbin is full of the "whiskers and pores" level of detail on how to work with it. Nice to get a 'Dynamesh' overview!

[@jurandfantom]

I have idea for next video: Zbrush useful tips. Example: I just started using Zbrush, and I didn't know how remove copy of my subtool from scene (so i restarted Zbrush usualy ) - yesterday somebody told me to use ctrl+n to clean my layer. Great tutorial and i can't wait for more :)

[@imnotmattplays]

Need more tuts like this were you go into depths of stuff and explain why you do what you do. It would be awesome if you did that with brushes, textures, masks and so on, because you're able to explain thoroughly and that's what I need to learn and understand. I failed my Zbrush class because my teacher couldn't make me understand why we did the things we did. But you nail it perfectly. Thanks!

[@artofjhill]

glad I could help man. I will definitely make more tutorials like this about other techniques and aspects of digital sculpting and making characters

[@imnotmattplays]

Looking forward to it!

[@brenogentil1]

I'm starting my studies in Zbrush and your videos are helping me a lot. Great work! Thanks for share!

[@richardanderson1166]

very good and straight forward demo, no-nonsense and straight to the point.

[@Monterey-ct6ey]

Thank you!!!! I've watched lots of videos about dynamesh, and your explanation is the clearest!

[@artofjhill]

I'm glad I could help!

[@AdamKarlsson]

Thanks so much for this video, I think this is one of the best dynamesh videos on KZbin! Also great that you added a camera, makes it more fun to watch the video. Great video man keep it up!

[@artofjhill]

AdamConcepts awesome, thanks man!

[@virgilshaw1553]

Was really confused about the workflow. you made it plane and clear. You Ain't no daisy!!! love the way you laid it out.

[@DianaUlloa]

Can't believe you only have 18k subscribers. With the quality of your content you deserve more. Thank you for explaining everything in such a nice way! Looking forward for more

[@ryanmartin8060]

Holy shit, man. This was ridiculously helpful. I've been slowly chipping away at a female sculpt for a while now, trying to get secondary and tertiary detail in with Dynamesh. This really helped me get a larger view of what the process could and should be, and how much easier that could make life for me. Thanks for sharing these tips!!

[@artofjhill]

Glad you found it useful and that I could help. Good luck with your project!

[@leruss2]

that was already my workflow , but you explained it so well that i kinda understood it again :) !

[@ShutterAuthority]

Thanks for the great tut dude!

[@DavidDentonArt]

This is incredibly useful. I've been lost about when to use Dynamesh, ZRemesher and divisions and your video explained it really well. Thank you for making this video.

[@artofjhill]

you're welcome, glad it helped!

[@GameSanchez]

I am an amateur 3d modeler and you in 10 minutes answered most the questions i was struggling to understand. Like how to make a nice model without hitting 6mln poly. A big Thank you EDIT: As i said, it took me less than 30 min to model a nice and clean shape with a low amount of Poly, instead of an high dense - low quality mesh that i always did. Thank you so much again

[@artofjhill]

you're welcome! Glad I could help

[@cerqueirapv]

Very Good J Hill!!! Explanation excellent, consistent and intelligent! Thanks for spreading information!

[@artofjhill]

you're very welcome!

[@KieranMeadows]

Brilliant mate thank you for taking the time to explain this. Wishing you the very best.

[@orsonredpath7193]

great explanation, thanks for explaining the concepts and logic behind each stage, it really helped me understand the process

[@artofjhill]

np, glad it helped

[@karleclaire]

Uhm is this the way you do it? 1. So you use dynamesh for the base shape. 2. After getting the desired shape you use Zremesher right? 3. Then you use divide to increase polygons for the details. I'm new to zbrush and I have watched a lot of tutorials, but your video is the only one to describe the uses of dynamesh and zremesher. Thanks very much!

[@artofjhill]

+Karl Eclaire you got it! Thats the basic process.

[@karleclaire]

+J. Hill Thanks, I got confused between what to use first. Thanks for this vid!

[@trevoradams8675]

Great vid! Liked the frozen clay analogy excellent way to look at it. :)

[@artofjhill]

thanks, hope it helped

[@svenbardos6637]

How could I have overlooked this video so long? That's a great tutorial about workflow!

[@artofjhill]

+Sven Bardos thanks man :)

[@AllThatJuice-]

thanks for the video, these types of fundamental lessons arent taught on my course so your channel is extremely helpful

[@artofjhill]

glad it helps

[@canodyn]

Dude!!! You just explained Dynamesh and zremesh easily! I'm learning zbrush on my own and its my first week and you just saved my ass!👍👍👍

[@charlieorcharles]

Amazing upload and explanations of the different tools! Another interesting video topic would be Retopology and whether using tools in Maya/Zbrush are better for certain situations :) And then how to use/create displacement maps etc... Thanks again!

[@AacisStudio]

Your tutorial is so clear and useful! it is pretty much what i was looking around to clarify! thank you

[@artofjhill]

you're welcome!

[@cerqueirapv]

So it seems to workflow much better. Once again ... very good, J Hill!

[@danieledidonato95]

Thank you so much, you've solved all my doubts about dynamesh and workflow in Zbrush!

[@artofjhill]

Daniele Di Donato wow awesome! I'm super glad this helped

[@aarontricks1886]

You know what man, You just done a f**king cool reference for everybody! Clear logic and method! I turn to your fan from a passerby.

[@artofjhill]

thanks

[@therealKrak]

Why did I get that late to this tutorial? Thank you very much! One big ZBrush mystery solved for me.

[@artofjhill]

Glad you found it :)

[@janessaortberg4107]

I can't thank you enough. I've been looking for this explanation for so long!

[@artofjhill]

glad you found it and that I could help

[@alnunezii9101]

Best way I heard dynamesh explained. Thanks.

[@artofjhill]

Glad to hear it. I hope it helps

[@monou]

man!, you have no idea how did you save my current project. thank you very very much!

[@craftyrat]

Im glad I found this video. Finally I know how to do It properly.

[@artofjhill]

glad it helped out

[@ethersculpting]

you are really good explaining

[@Broacher86]

Hey this came in handy today at work! Thanks Jason!

[@artofjhill]

haha glad I could help. When are we gonna ball again? I miss our basketball days

[@mrbuttons2039]

more tutorials please, this was awesome!!

[@TheMADmk]

Awesome explanation of what these tools do. Just started using zbrush and its very complicated and other tutorials on youtube just say use dynamesh without explaining what it is or why your using it. +1 indeed =D

[@artofjhill]

+TheMADmk awesome! thanks man, glad it helped :)

[@pedro.zunzunegui]

Best explanation. Finally makes sense.

[@AlexWLarson]

Hi Jay, Thank you for this video! Your approach in using Dynamesh, Z-Remesher, and Sub Div levels makes a lot of sense. Thank you for ending my confusion on this subject! If you are willing, a video about how to effectively save grid plane reference images in their "snapped to mesh" locations with horizontal, vertical, and image quality adjustments retained in tact, (after a file has been saved, and re-opened) would be great! For whatever reason, when I open a file that has reference images pre-positioned, those positions are skewed when I close the file and re-open it at a later time, this is often accompanied by having my primary tool, drop a few inches below the y-floor plane on the screen, but I don't know why this is happening...

[@artofjhill]

hmm, I don't do that myself but perhaps saving the document rather than the tool would work. Glad you liked the video

[@AllThatJuice-]

I want to get into zbrush but some of the technical stuff just completely loses me...the sculpting itself is something I can see myself getter better at but I feel as though the technical aspects to zbrush will hold me back. so these types of videos are really appreciated

[@artofjhill]

+Bruce Wayne I'm glad to hear that Bruce, big fan btw. Can you tell me things that you feel are holding you back or you'd like to know more about. I'd love to make more of these types of videos and help solve this exact thing. I want more people to sculpt :)

[@tomsm06]

That is truely interesting, thanks mate

[@TobiasSteiner]

Great tip. Very informative and helpful. Thanks for taking the time to show it!

[@callmedeno]

meant to say very clear and concise delivery as well, lot of promise

[@user-uw7we8xn7z]

thanks bro that was the best Tutorial iv watched in a long time :)

[@artofjhill]

+Audio Freak awesome! hope it helps

[@jfcomposition]

Now i try to sculpt from hot to frozen 😂 awesome video ! More from that please !

[@artofjhill]

Will do!

[@elihooper2157]

Awesome work-flow presentation! Totally explained a number of my misconceptions! Thank you!

[@artofjhill]

great, glad to hear it helped

[@doworksonism]

Very clear and concise thanks a lot for this.

[@Walkion]

Nice clean tutorial, great explanations, thank you !

[@DarkRayden666]

Sir, this video is exactly what I was looking for! A nice, easy to follow, clean explanation. You've got yourself a new subscriber! ps: certainly hoping you'll make more videos explaining stuff.

[@artofjhill]

+Hassonov Ruslan thanks man, I appreciate it. I'm glad it helped and I will make more videos. Let me know of any other topics like this you'd like cleared up

[@noehaniya2012]

U GOT MY ALL QUESTIONS!!! THANK YOU JAY!

[@artofjhill]

+Noe Noche YOU'RE WELCOME!

[@AdamsDigitalInk]

You've done a great job explaining the process. concise and easy to follow, thanks bud :)

[@artofjhill]

glad to help

[@samdavepollard]

Very nice tutorial. I've obviously been seduced by the 'magic' that is dynamesh and was using it for everything, pretty much, failing to understand its place in a wider workflow. Exceptionally useful stuff. Many Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Subbed.

[@artofjhill]

awesome, glad it helped out. Happy sculpting :)

[@CJFitzgeraldAPUS]

Thanks for your video dude. Really great and clear video.

[@CrsGarden]

This is a crazily good tutorial! It cleared so much up for me, I thought dynamesh was the way to go and it kinda made me hate zbrush because it gets slow at the end and not the clean workflow that I'd like. This is great! Would you do a tutorial on exporting and minimalizing your object for other software ? (for example Cinema4D). I create static meshes and everything I want to export my model there are like a million ways to recalculate your mesh and I just hate how I'm just doing random stuff. Thanks again, you're a great teacher!

[@artofjhill]

thank you for the kind words man, glad the video helped. You want to know how to move a mesh to another program for what purpose? there are automatic ways to make a smaller polycount but for games we still do it by hand

[@MrLazzzyboi]

Thanks man this was very clear and easy to understand, great video!

[@tetramera]

Had to sub and see what else you've got, since this was a super helpful video! Didn't realize what a difference there was in the topology, no wonder my Dynamesh sculpts are funky later on lol. Thanks for making this, will def be checking out the channel.

[@artofjhill]

+Crow cool, thanks man! glad I could help

[@HaMinhsWOrLD]

You r amazing ! I watched ur doom fist series however u never finished it. Please make videos for us again when ur not too busy with work and stuff. Thank u so much! I just started out and ur videos r extremely helpful and really give me a methodological understanding of the workflow and pipeline instead of just the technical part which is just acquired knowledge from any manual.

[@artofjhill]

Thanks man, working on making new content for the channel this year. gonna try and make useful stuff that doesn't take forever to share with you. keep making stuff! cheers

[@LizzyKoopa]

Thanks youtube for actrully recommending me a video i wanted to see! Instead of sending me down a rabbit hole filled with weird Japanese soap commercials or some shit. Awesome tutorial, you just changed my whole perspective on dynamesh.

[@artofjhill]

lol glad it found it's way to you

[@TheKevphil]

This was VERY useful in terms of defining stages. Thanks for the insights!

[@artofjhill]

+Kevin Phillips glad you found it useful!

[@hassinesouissi7202]

This gonna change my life literally!

[@artofjhill]

glad to hear it. Sculpt some cool shit!

[@richcorzatt7886]

Great tutorial. I'm just learning and this was super helpful.

[@x24140]

amazingly clean to the point!!!

[@tejasrock]

great topic I am searching for it so long, thanks

[@artofjhill]

glad it helped!

[@arqkourany]

I learn more here in this video tutorial than in any other in youtube ever ...thanks bro..

[@artofjhill]

awesome, thanks man glad to hear it

[@ValenVargas07]

bro i love you u just explained it so perfectly

[@artofjhill]

[@justinlane6088]

Wow. You cleared up a lot for me with the detail. Thanks a bunch. definitely subscribing.

[@AlexCamargo10]

Great video! Your explanation helped me a lot to understand the difference between these two topics. :)

[@josephvanwyk2088]

Thanks, Glad someone finally cleared that up, nice in 3 bullet points. Just so that I understand: [Step 1]: Use pre-existing armatures or create Zspferes and build framework/armature, shape.... [Step 2], add dynamesh ( to do your anatomy, shapes) & Ctrl select background to adjust when stretching polygons occurs. [Step 3] use Zremesh to get better control over polygons and start dividing to nr.2 and nr 3..... [Step 4], reach/create divisions 6, 7, 8 for detail. ------------ is this correct via your explanation? Also, on a different subject, that workspace of your looks user-friendly...I tried customizing my own, but the "ctrl + alt" thing doesn't want to work properly. I'm trying to add brushes to the toolbars, and then it just doesn't lock on, or remain when I enter program again. Any advice?

[@artofjhill]

Hey! Glad you liked the vid. The 3 steps are 1. Dynamesh (this is the most loose stage, whatever method if making meshes works but dynamesh will almost always be used as well) 2. ZRemesh (make new topology that becomes your "bsaemesh" to finish) 3. Divide (the last thing you'll do is have a mesh with multiple divisions and a high poly count to do details)

[@MonikaGajewska_Art]

Thank you so much for this video! You helped me a lot!

[@artkiko4460]

you're a really good teacher. thanks for the lesson.

[@dreidrey]

Great tutorials! clear and informative. Would you be able to cover a simple production workflow? from sculpting > adding details > texturing in substance painter?

[@artofjhill]

Thanks. Yea, maybe I'll do that in a future video.

[@MorganDesigns182]

Awesome video man! I think you explained that very well. Keep making Vids!

[@artofjhill]

+Mike Morgan thanks man, will do!

[@YuriShubenin]

Thanks for the vid, cleared many things up!

[@yelenaivy]

THANK YOU! Amazing tutorial!

[@eaglekh8664]

Worked , thanks a lot!