Designing and Modeling Comic Book Characters with ZBrush
Search for References
A course by Danu Navarro , 3D Artist
About the video: Search for References
Overview
“As a first step, I will do some research to look for references and I will create a folder where I will save everything that helps me to make the model of my character that I will use later.”
In this video lesson Danu Navarro addresses the topic: Search for References, which is part of the Domestika online course: Designing and Modeling Comic Book Characters with ZBrush. Bring to life comic book-style characters from your imagination by transforming them from 2D to 3D with Zbrush and Keyshot.
Partial transcription of the video
“Search for references In this lesson we are going to do a preliminary investigation before doing our final project. But first I want to give you a little introduction. of how the structure will be throughout our course. I will introduce you to the ZBrush interface and I'll show you how to customize it so we can work faster. Then we are going to work with our mesh base. I will teach you my techniques to work with this type of methodology and we are going to generate or design, composing our character in this model. Little by little we are going to refine the character until we can spot and a...”
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Course summary for: Designing and Modeling Comic Book Characters with ZBrush
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Category
3D & Animation -
Software
KeyShot, ZBrush -
Areas
3D, 3D Modeling

Danu Navarro
A course by Danu Navarro
After earning a degree in fine arts, Danu Navarro specialized in 3D modeling and began his career working on Colombia's first 3D animated series, Niña aji, from the animation studio Domo Animato. Later, he started a new chapter, entering the world of video games with Cocodrilo Dog. There, he was the team's lead modeler, designing characters and scenery for their Beatboy and BoomFighters projects for mobile devices.
He was also an art director at C2 Game Studio, working on the Project Monolith video game for Nintendo and PlayStation 4. He currently works as a freelance artist, focusing on 3D modeling and character design for different projects, as well as a tutor for the cartoon characters module at Animum Creativity Advanced School.
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