Learn to sculpt and chisel like the masters using ZBrush 4 and this beautiful, full-color guide. Sculptor and designer Scott Spencer blends cutting-edge technology with artistry to show you how to use ZBrush to create fascinating characters limited only by your imagination.

You'll learn new ZBrush 4 brushes and brush controls, how to sketch complex forms with ZSketch, cool ways to costume your characters, and much more. Above all, you'll master time-honored concepts such as sculpting gesture and sighting proportion-techniques that will help you become a better artist, no matter what the medium.

• Bridge the transition from traditional to digital sculpting
• Get familiar with ZBrush 4 sculpting tools
• Learn valuable techniques for detailing, texture painting, and rendering
• Explore ZSpheres, polygon meshes, and adaptive skins
• Design a lion's head, a character bust, a biped figure, a raygun, and more
• Create animations with the timeline, and export videos and highly rendered images from ZBrush
• Gain valuable insights and tips from guest artists throughout the book

• Sculpting, from Traditional to Digital
• Sculpting in ZBrush
• Designing a Character Bust
• ZBrush for Detailing
• Texture Painting
• ZSpheres
• Transpose, ZSphere Rigging, Retopology, and Mesh Extraction
• ZBrush Movies and Photoshop Composites
• Normal Maps, Displacement Maps, Maya, and Decimation Master
• ZSketch and Hard-Surface Brushes
• Appendix About the Companion DVD