Dark Fantasy Character Design in ZBrush
Refine the character
A course by Santiago Betancur , Concept Artist
Joined January 2020
About the video: Refine the character
Overview
“Now that the blocking of the character is done, I'll start refining his anatomy and details. I will use alphas to give final details like skin, wrinkles, pores and scars.”
In this video lesson Santiago Betancur addresses the topic: Refine the character, which is part of the Domestika online course: Dark Fantasy Character Design in ZBrush. Learn to bring industry-quality fantasy characters to life in 3D, from the first sketch to the final image.
Partial transcription of the video
“refine the character now i will show you how are we going to finish the body of the character, refining the anatomy and adding final details such as pores, wrinkles, etc. Let's start. This is the final version of the character, with all the details finished. We return to our previous version, as we left it. In this case I gave Mirror and Weld to adjust the symmetry and, with this brush, in Sculptris Pro activated, I start smoothing to remove these types of elements that I decided to eliminate to put other types of objects. Since we remove this, we can now transform into DynaMesh again and b...”
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Course summary for: Dark Fantasy Character Design in ZBrush
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Category
3D & Animation -
Software
Adobe Photoshop, OctaneRender, ZBrush -
Areas
3D, 3D Character Design, 3D Modeling, Character Design

Santiago Betancur
A course by Santiago Betancur
Santiago Betancur is a concept artist from Colombia, specialized in character design, who's worked in the entertainment industry developing projects such as video games, short films, ad campaigns, and collectables. He is passionate about digital art and likes to express his ideas and tell stories through images.
Throughout his more-than-seven-year career, he's collaborated with Aaron Sims Creative, Striking Distance, and Project Triforce, and several of his projects have been published in magazines like 3D Artist Magazine[i] and [i]Renderout.
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