CGTalk - ZBrush with Maya?

08-09-2006, 03:43 PM

Hello, I am thinking of purchasing ZBrush 2 for private/educational use, but I am unsure as to what ZBrush actually is. I understand it can make amazing models inside of ZBrush, but what about animation? Could a highly detailed mesh created and textured in ZBrush be animated in Autodesk Maya? Is there a way to export a more "animatable" mesh into Maya while still maintaining high detail when rendering? Is it easier/better to layout the UVs inside of ZBrush rather than Maya?

Thanks

Gmelahn

08-09-2006, 08:55 PM

You will use your sculpted version in zbrush as a displacement, bump, or normal map. Then it will look good without it being millions of polygons. I have been unwrapping my uvs in max before bringing em, and I have been getting bad seems. You can try to unwrap them inside zbrush too, see what you can get.

benclark

08-10-2006, 11:03 AM

yeah you can take a detailed mesh from Zbrush and animate it in Maya. A high res mesh from Zbrush would be too heavy to animate so most people apply the high res from zbrush as a displacement map and have a low/meium res version modeled in Maya to animate.

The Human anatomy sculpture dvd from Gnomon has got a brilliant chapter on it about how to create a low res animatable model from your high res model in Zbrush

08-10-2006, 09:58 PM

Thanks guys, just what I needed to know

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