Simon Fenton Dean / Director of Interactive and Realtime.

Now the door is assembled we can use surface noise and noise plugin to get the high frequency wood detail as seen below. The mirror and weld will give different results depending on the position of the mesh in the canvas. Using tool > deformation > skew and tool > geometry > modify topology >mirror and weld this shape can be created. We will also use the new move infinite brush, this will help shape the door handle from the side, use polish, clay tubes, clip curve and add divisions to create the door handle.įor this section we will polygroup and Zremesh the final piece.

Next we will use deformations, these can be found on the tool menu, the spherize deformation will get a bulge based on the cylinders position. To get the final look we will once again be using Dynamesh and Zremesher for better corners. This section also includes adding more basic shapes like cylinders, and how to split them apart with poly groups. We will now introduce the clip curve function, this is great for cutting meshes and adding more hard edges.

Then distribute the screw heads in the screw holes. Next we will create a high resolution shadow box, we can use this to create a 3D mesh from the image we created in Photoshop. Having a good even distribution of polygons will allow you to smooth surfaces and polish corners for a realistic look to hard surface objects. The other important function is how to Dynamesh and use Zremesher, these will get you clean edges.

The next section is describing how to use the live Boolean function in Zbrush to subtract shapes from other shapes. The first image below describes how to create a 2D image to later transform into a 3D model, you will need Zbrush installed to find the template image. The tutorial below is a description of the process.

Zbrush hard surface tutorial