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Spaz8
08-31-2008, 12:33 PM
After 4 months in the making ZBrush Advanced Workflows with over 10hrs of content, covers instruction in both Zbrush and Modo, exploring concepts and methods to enchance and optimize model development and creation. Presented with full hi-res video and audio narration.

Topics include; Model preparation, Sculpting methodology, uses for the Z-projection brush, uses of the Morph brush, UV tricks and tips, Zmapper and arbitrary meshes, Organic sculpting using masks, Hard surface workflows in zbrush, Retopology, Displacement maps and rendering them.

The intention with all the tutorials I make is to provide a lot of information and acquired knowledge. Not just watch me work like there are countless examples of already. The goal is any one of these lecture topics is worth the price of the collection they are a part of. I have seen a lot of instructional material over the years and I am trying to make tutorials how I’ve always wanted them to be; at an advanced level, no filler, time lapse repetitive sections and covering topics and techniques I have not seen else where.

http://content.luxology.com/gallery/e40dba7d62ad3bedc7ffbe6e4f92d63f.jpg

Instructor Bio;

Ken Finlayson has been a Zbrush user since version 1.55, and a creator of 3d art since 1993. He has worked in both the film and next-gen games industries. He is currently a Senior Character artist for the game developer Bioware Corp. and most recent credit is to the game Mass Effect. In the past he has been a beta tester of the Zbrush and Mudbox software. He was an ambassador for Sheridan College’s computer animation program as well as taught and tutored while attending there. He was a recognized EAU instructor while employed as a Character artist by Electronic Arts and has given several lectures to Bioware’s character art team and junior artists.

MISGUIDED TUTORIALS (http://www.kenfinlayson-art.com/misguidedTutorials.html)

Here is a video preview, the quality is a bit degraded I'm afraid.

TUTORIAL PREVIEW (http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_63/3683000/3683509/4/preview/ZBAW_Preview.mov)

http://content.luxology.com/gallery/19d4e7e6e909faaece52d01bf07f8984.jpg

www.kenfinlayson-art.com (http://www.kenfinlayson-art.com)

misguidedTutorials (http://www.kenfinlayson-art.com/misguidedTutorials.html)

Spacemonkey
08-31-2008, 12:37 PM
definitely worth checking out, I learnt a lot from Ken about Zbrush when I was at Bioware and still bug him on msn now ;)

Ancient-Pig
08-31-2008, 01:25 PM
Yay - fellow Bioware-ers :P

How's the weather up north? Checking out the tuts - thanks for the link!

Marcus Dublin
09-02-2008, 02:46 AM
Thanks a bunch for sharing this with the community, you rock!:thumb:

Aftermath
09-02-2008, 03:41 AM
Just a idea maybe you could break the tutorials into singles to purchase? Thanks for the service you provide, keep it up!

Elcura
09-02-2008, 05:59 AM
Just a idea maybe you could break the tutorials into singles to purchase? Thanks for the service you provide, keep it up!

I agree with this, certain sections (like topology and sculpting methodology) interest me greatly while others not so much. Single purchases could increases sales more than a huge bundle.

Spaz8
09-02-2008, 08:59 PM
Thanks for the feedback guys.. I certainly considered breaking it up at one point. I may look back into it. -Ken