
This DVD covers everything you need to get started in ZBrush, and exposes many behind the scenes details and advanced working processes. Meats covers all possible sculpting and color painting tools, as well as the new topology, transpose and projection tools. He also shows how to use ZBrush as an illustration package, harnessing the power of the 2.5D Pixol technology. As a core member of the ZBrush 3 beta team, Meats has worked closely with Pixologic to bring you this essential training DVD.

Topics Covered

Interface
Sculpting
Texturing
ZSpheres
MatCap
SubTools
Transpose
Topology
Displacement and Normal Maps
llustration

Instructor Bio:
Meats Meier is currently a freelance illustrator and animator living in Hollywood, California. He taught the first ever ZBrush course at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects, and is the author of four training DVDs produced by The Gnomon Workshop. Meats is also an award-winning digital artist (including two Expose' Master awards) with over a decade of experience in a wide range of artistic fields. He has worked as an airbrush artist, lead artist at a video game studio, technical director and compositor on feature films, and has had a successful career as an independent artist and illustrator.

Minimum System Requirements
1GHz or faster processor
512 MB RAM
64 MB Video RAM
DVD-ROM Drive
5 GB of hard disk space
1280 x 1024 display

Minimum Operating System Requirements
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional,
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Apple® Mac® OS X 10.2

This DVD-ROM also requires the Quicktime Movie Player (Version 5.0.5 or higher), the Ensharpen Codec (Version 1.0.1 or higher) and Acrobat Reader (Version 5.0 or higher) in order to view its contents.

The web links for these installers are below. If you don't have these items on your computer, please install these items before you launch the DVD-ROM Gnomon Workshop movie.

TechSmith EnSharpen Decoder Link:
http://www.techsmith.com/download/ensharpendecoder.asp
Apple Quicktime Link:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
Adobe Acrobat Installer Link:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html