Creating a Gargoyle in 3ds Max and ZBrush
In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a female demon gargoyle creature. Software required: 3ds Max 2009, Photoshop CS3, ZBrush 4R2.
What you'll learn
In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a female demon gargoyle creature. Throughout these lessons we will learn how to quickly create block out shapes such as our creature's wings, horns, cloth, and other ornate pieces. We will look at brushes that are used in a typical art pipeline as well as how to create custom brushes. Using 3ds Max, we'll learn how to create chains that conform to the character's body using splines. We will also take all the SubTool pieces in ZBrush to rig and pose our character in Transpose Master. Software required: 3ds Max 2009, Photoshop CS3, ZBrush 4R2.
Table of contents
- Gathering Reference Material 8m
- Blocking out the Horns and Hood 9m
- Blocking in an Ornate Piece 8m
- Creating Wings Using Zspheres 20m
- Looking at Commonly Used Brushes 8m
- Creating Our Own Custom Brushes 10m
- Adding Chains for Our Character 13m
- Building Hooves for Our Character 8m
- Creating Cloth Pieces Using References 10m
- Using Brushes to Add Detail to the Wings 6m
- Adding Detail Using Brushes 9m
- Setting up Our Mesh with Transpose Master 3m
- Looking at the Rig in Transpose Master 24m
- Posing Our Character 13m
About the author
Brian Parnell is a lead character artist in the Video Game industry. He has 7+ years experience creating characters in games for such notable titles as Titan Quest, Titan Quest: Immortal Throne, Rock Band 2, and Rockband: The Beatles. In the game art community, you can find many of Brian's Dominance War and Comicon entries as well as work on many Indie games including Natural Selection 2, and Grim Dawn.