3D Creature Design with ZBrush and Photoshop

Sketching Ideas

A course by Rowena Frenzel , Freelance 3D Character Artist

98% positive reviews (53)

2,033 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Sketching Ideas

Overview

“In this lesson, you will learn how to paint out your ideas with a nice little trick. If you are like me and struggle with drawing creatures, you can use this trick to overpaint your blockout. Not only is it easy and fast, but it will also help you visualize your design.”

In this video lesson Rowena Frenzel addresses the topic: Sketching Ideas, which is part of the Domestika online course: 3D Creature Design with ZBrush and Photoshop. Bring highly detailed animal characters to life through digital software using the natural world as your inspiration.

Partial transcription of the video

“Sketching Ideas In this lesson, I will show you how you can use the blockout to find more elements and ideas for your whole project. Design is a process, so you have to do it multiple times to get the right ideas. That's why it's super handy to use our blockouts for that and to add the right elements to it, especially when you can't draw, like me. Let's get into it. Before we jump over to the sketching part, we need to have this reference body with our creature, so we need to export the images. There is a really simple trick to place our creature. When we are sketching, it is totally fine j...”

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Course summary for: 3D Creature Design with ZBrush and Photoshop

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (53)
2033 students
6 units
28 lessons (6h 36m)
15 downloads

Category
3D & Animation
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Pixologic, ZBrush
Areas
3D Modeling

Rowena Frenzel

A course by Rowena Frenzel

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Freelance 3D Character Artist

Rowena Frenzel is a freelance 3D character artist based in Germany. Her love for art began at a young age when she would draw anime and cartoons in her spare time, but video games were what really sparked her desire to pursue a career in creativity. She went on to study at media design school where she learned the basics of filmmaking, editing, graphic design, and more, before attending a private school to hone her skills in 3D design. After graduating and searching for a job in the field, she began posting her work online, which kick-started her freelance career as a 3D character artist.

She now shares her designs with 30K followers on Instagram and has worked on projects including the Tom and Jerry Movie and board game titles like Lord of the Rings. She’s created characters for Studio Wildcard, FlippedNormals, and more.