Dark Fantasy Character Design in ZBrush
Render 3
A course by Santiago Betancur , Concept Artist
Joined January 2020
About the video: Render 3
Overview
“I need to create the textures of the metals. so i'm going to it. Afterwards, I will work on the lighting of the character with HDRIs.”
In this video lesson Santiago Betancur addresses the topic: Render 3, 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
“rendering Let's create our metal materials. Let's change it to a glossy first zeros. We are going to use one called Metallic Material so that we begin to generate shine. Let's go here in the Diffuse to put a leather texture, a grayish RGB color. Let's add in Roughness... Let's add a Grayscale. Let's put it in Box and it generates a more interesting effect, not so bright. Let's give it a 2.2. We are going to use this same map... Let's hit Copy and use as a Bump. We lower the intensity, the Power, a little, to generate those irregularities on the surface, as we can see here in this part. In t...”
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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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