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Model concepts in ZBrush and create custoM Brushes

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Assign material in KeyShot now it is time for
04 rendering. as mentioned earlier you can use the
model of the monkey that is provided for this tutorial. We
render the monkey head in Keyshot and for this we use the
ZBrush-to-Keyshot Bridge. in Keyshot you can assign different
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materials and textures to the model. Furthermore, you can
experiment with hdr images until you are satisied with light
and shadow.

Portrait render in KeyShot in order to render a portrait
05 in Keyshot there are some helpful tricks to achieve a
better end result. the irst step is to alter the perspective from
35 to 100 and to get as close to the face as possible. the next
step is to open the camera menu/tab, go to position and
orientation>twist and enter 90. Your viewpoint spins
automatically to the angle of 90 degrees and now you have
more space to zoom in on the face. once that step is done, you
can render the image as a pnG at 3,800 x 2,465px.

Photobash techniques for concept art after
06 rendering it is time to work with photoshop. But before
that we should search for high-quality hd images of monkeys
that we need later on for the photobashing. Free hd images
are available via Google or Flickr, but pay attention to the
copyright. as soon as we have enough hd images, we can
start off with cutting the parts that we need for our concept.
the end result is an unpleasant-looking puzzle.
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Blend jigsaw seamlessly together in this step you will
07 learn how to merge the cut-out parts seamlessly with
the aid of brushes. the hard round and soft round brush as
well as the clone stamp tool will sufice for this. another
helpful tool is the Match color plugin that adjusts the colours
of different images.

alternative methods
of course you can start off with the actual design of the
monkey head in photoshop. creating the head in 3d
provides a basis that can help us with orientation. of
course there is more than one method, for example we
could use a sketch or photograph of a monkey as a basis.
With the aid of this basis we are going to develop the
inal concept of the head. in the end, the most important
thing is to create a professional concept of the head in
the appropriate amount of time to satisfy the client.

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