Dark Fantasy Character Design in ZBrush

Color and textures

A course by Santiago Betancur , Concept Artist

Concept Artist. Manizales, Colombia.
Joined January 2020
95% positive reviews (39)
2,000 students
Audio: Spanish
Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch

About the video: Color and textures

Overview

“The character is almost ready, but we still need to add color and textures. To do this, I will show you the process I use using PolyPaint, a tool that allows you to paint on the surface of a model without having to assign a texture map first.”

In this video lesson Santiago Betancur addresses the topic: Color and textures, 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

“color and textures In this lesson I will show you my process to texture the character within ZBrush using Polypaint. Let's start. In this case I am going to texture only the character because it is the main focus of the image. What are props and all this we will texture it in render engine later. What interests me at the moment is texturing the character as such. We select our paint brush. I usually use this way and I use either of these two Alpha. I put a base color, which is going to be more or less the color of the skin that it is going to have and I start adding variation to it and I st...”

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Course summary for: Dark Fantasy Character Design in ZBrush

  • Level: Intermediate
  • 95% positive reviews (39)
  • 2000 students
  • 5 units
  • 24 lessons (8h 14m)
  • 7 downloads
  • Category

    3D & Animation
  • Software

    Adobe Photoshop, OctaneRender, ZBrush
  • Areas

    3D, 3D Character Design, 3D Modeling, Character Design

Santiago Betancur

Santiago Betancur
A course by Santiago Betancur

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Concept Artist

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.


  • 95% positive reviews (39)
  • 2,000 students
  • 24 lessons (8h 14m)
  • 25 additional resources (7 files)
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  • Audio: Spanish
  • Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
  • Level: Intermediate
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Dark Fantasy Character Design in ZBrush. 3D, and Animation course by Santiago Betancur

Dark Fantasy Character Design in ZBrush

A course by Santiago Betancur
Concept Artist. Manizales, Colombia.
Joined January 2020
  • 95% positive reviews (39)
  • 2,000 students