3D Creature Design with ZBrush and Photoshop
Posing the Creature 1
A course by Rowena Frenzel , Freelance 3D Character Artist
About the video: Posing the Creature 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I will teach you one of the most important parts of giving your creature personality. By thinking about its backstory and the environment in which it lives, you can create a full pose that will bring your animal to life.”
In this video lesson Rowena Frenzel addresses the topic: Posing the Creature 1, 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
“Posing the Creature In this lesson, I will show you how you can pose your creature in a more dynamic way to tell a story and to show the personality. I will also show you how you can import your assets, which you searched for in the beginning, and how you can play with the pose and the creature around it. Before we can pose our creature, we need to do some things as preparation before that. The first thing is, of course, to import our assets into the scene so that we can work around and combine our creature with them. Whatever asset you choose to have in your scene, just import this into ZB...”
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Course summary for: 3D Creature Design with ZBrush and Photoshop
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Category
3D & Animation -
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Pixologic, ZBrush -
Areas
3D Modeling

Rowena Frenzel
A course by Rowena Frenzel
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.
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