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simultaneously without a trip to Transpose The Gizmo enables me
Master is worth the price of admission alone.
to create multi-SubTool
Add to that the ability to precisely position the
Gizmo to your part or world centre, not to
mention all the new deformers attached to models with more ease,
the gear icon, and you have a powerhouse of speed and accuracy
a new tool!”
Enabling you to quickly scale, move and Ara Kermanikian
rotate your models, the Gizmo 3D is generated
by default in the centre of the selected Boolean feature for iterative design,” he says,
SubTool. But you can manipulate your object in “I have to say my favourite new feature is the Q&A WITH
the screen space, by hovering over the white Gizmo because it enables me to create
area of the Gizmo 3D. What’s more, at the top multi-SubTool models like the mechs I make DANIEL BYSTEDT
of the Gizmo you have seven icons. There’s with much more ease, speed and accuracy.”
Customise, enabling you to open primitives What’s also fantastic about Gizmo 3D is Zbrush 4r8 has revolutionised worklows,
and deformers; Sticky mode, which snaps how customisable it is. Using the Preferences says the senior character artist
Gizmo 3D back to its original position after palette you can determine the Gizmo 3D size,
manipulating a model; Go To Unmasked Mesh whether tool tips are displayed, and even What would you say is your number-one
Center, which will snap the Gizmo 3D to the completely change the look and feel of the favourite new feature in Zbrush 4r8?
centre of your unmasked mesh; the Home icon, tool. You can create your own custom Gizmos My favourite feature is deinitely the Live
which snaps the Gizmo 3D to the centre of the using the Gizmo 3D template in Lightbox. It’s a Boolean feature. Although there is a bunch of
ZBrush world; and the Reset Orientation icon, simple process to do so – the template walks other cool features, it’s really the one that I will
which resets the Gizmo 3D to the world axis. you through the process, and all you have to have the most use for in the future.
Both of the latter can be further manipulated do is edit the ile. Essentially Gizmo 3D offers
using the Lock icon. The inal icon is the you a completely new way of manipulating And how has this helped you create better
Transpose All icon, enabling you to move and your models – and one that you can completely work than before?
manipulate all SubTools at once – handy for customise to your individual needs. The Live Boolean feature has made it so much
making global changes. You can of course easier to create hard-surface models. It’s
affect only a few SubTools using modiier LAZY MOUSE 2.0 fantastic to be able to create complex shapes
keyboard shortcuts in combination with Gizmo Lazy Mouse has always provided a precise way in a non-destructive worklow. It is also very
3D. For Victor Marin the new Gizmo tool is to draw smooth curves and add any kind of easy to iterate changes on the model and
“the best method to navigate in the canvas.” detail to your ZBrush models, and the second replace Boolean objects, which gives the user
Mech modelling maestro Ara Kermanikian iteration of the tool takes things a lot further more room for being creative. By creating
agrees that Gizmo 3D is one of the most by adding a relatively small feature. Using the geometry with the CurveTubeSnap brush
important – and useful – features of the new new LazySnap function you can now snap to and using the resulting geometry as a
release. “As much as I love the new Live the last stroke, with no break in the design – subtractive Boolean, you can now create cuts
and lines in the mesh that are normally pretty
complex to create.

how has Zbrush 4r8 improved your
sculpting worklow?
The Vector Displacement feature for creating
new brushes works very well. When it came to
creating overlapping lizard scales it was quite
the hassle in earlier versions, but now it is
working very nicely.
Another great sculpting feature is that you
can now make straight stroke lines with a
consistent height and depth. You can access
this feature by irst creating a morph target in
order to deine the original shape of the mesh.
Then you can press Shift just after you have
pressed down with your Wacom pen, and the
stroke is now done as a line. This feature is
really handy for me since I enjoy doing hard-
surface characters.

What else do you love about the release?
The new deformers that are available via the
3D Gizmo is a great new addition to the toolset
Pix-01 Systems within ZBrush. Now it’s so much easier to
Blaster Pistol
by Matt Flesher control and deform dense geometry.

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