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ZBrush 4r8: The BesT Version YeT?
ZBRUSH 4R8: THE BEST VERSION YET?

FISHBOT
BREAKDOWN

Artist stephen Anderson’s favourite feature of TOP TOPOLOGY
the new release is – perhaps unsurprisingly
– Live booleans, thanks to the lexibility it using a combination of polygroups,
offers artists. Anderson used Live Zremesher and ZModeler, Anderson
booleans to great effect in this was able to quickly obtain clean
‘Fishbot’ illustration – along with a topology for the overall shape. From
combination of polygroups, there, he created bevels to reine the
Zremesher and ZModeler for edge shape on the base forms.
the topology.

GIZMO CONTROL

Anderson created the base
forms using DynaMesh and
the Clip/trim brush. basic
move and transpose/Gizmo
manipulation techniques gave
him the basic form he wanted.

BEVEL AND SHAPE
ADDING MATERIALS
the bevelled holes were created using subtractive
by controlling the polygroups, booleans. Anderson liked being able to create a
Anderson was able to quickly apply simple shape to get quick and accurate results. he
materials inside of Zbrush for clean then used a combination of the new and old tools to
and eficient application in Keyshot. get all of the shell separations the way he wanted.
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