Illustrating a Vintage Horror Film Poster in Photoshop and ZBrush
In this tutorial, you will learn how to take your ZBrush renders into Photoshop in order to create a stylized final art piece for your portfolio. Software required: ZBrush 4R4, Photoshop CS6, AMP Font Viewer 3.6.
What you'll learn
In this tutorial, you will learn how to take your ZBrush renders into Photoshop in order to create a stylized final art piece for your portfolio. We will discuss how to take your 3D concepts into Photoshop for final customized renders using layers, filters, lasso tools, and other tools in Photoshop CS6. Software required: ZBrush 4R4, Photoshop CS6, AMP Font Viewer 3.6.
Table of contents
- Using Our 2D Thumbnails to Inspire 3D Designs 9m
- Setting up Our ZBrush Models for Bpr Passes 6m
- Polypainting Our Character 6m
- Polypainting Our Character Continued 10m
- Finishing the Polypainting for Our Character 10m
- Polypainting Using Alphas 7m
- Preparing to Create Render Passes 9m
- Bringing the Render Passes into Photoshop 11m
- Adjusting Layers in Photoshop for Final Rendering 10m
- Tweaking Our Work for the Final Render 10m
- Cleaning up Using the Blur and Smudge Tools 11m
- Importing Additional Assets for the Environment 8m
- Continuing with the Background Environment 10m
- Creating a Cohesive Scene 9m
- Making the Bounce Light and Creating Composition 9m
- Building Visual Weight with Lights and Shadows 9m
- Tips for Finding and Utilizing the Best Font Possible 10m
- Looking at the Last Render and an Alternate Border 0m
About the author
Tyrus Goshay has been in the Game Design field and in Illustration since 2001. He has worked as both a concept artist and as a character artist in both 2D and 3D. Tyrus has served as a Game Design Program Chair for nearly 3 years while moonlighting as a Lead 3D Character Artist for Foreverinteractive. He has also worked for companies by the likes of Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney and many others as a designer and as an Illustrator. He spent several years designing toys for the McDonalds ha... more