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# Games Art - Sculpting Human Anatomy within ZBrush - Six Week Plan

## Week 1 - Introduction to Zbrush. 
Understanding ZBrush’s User interfaces, Navigation and controls. 
Basics of Zbrush: Exporting/ Importing, Subtools, Subdivisions.
Brushes: Clear understanding of the primary brushes professionals use and the appropriate ways to use them.

## Weeks 2: Sculpting Basics. 
Alphas, masking. Selection tools and Poly Groups. Dynamesh, Zremesher and Sculptris pro. Materials and texturing. Concluding with sculpting a human nose.

## Week 3 - Sculpting Facial Features, Mouth, Eye, Ear.
Looking at Lanteri methods of faical feature tiling and learning correct anatomical names.

## Week 4 - Sculpting a Human Skull
Learning the anatomy of the skull and understanding facial proportions. Then sculpting Mastication and expression muscles (if time). 

## Week 5 - Sculpting the Base Mesh of a Bipedal Character.
Focusing on primary shapes/ forms, Blocking out the important shapes and structure of a human figure (Ryan Kingslien’s Roboman).
And applying secondary detailing, muscle groups and functions.

## Week 6 - Applying Tertiary Details.
Refining the form and applying high res texture to a model with alphas. Poly painting with Spotlight. Rendering; still images and turntables.

## Resources for Lesson 1:

Zbrush Shortcuts: ZBrush2021 Cheat Sheet (pixologic.com)

Official Zbrush documentation: http://docs.pixologic.com/getting-started/

### Lesson Recordings:

Part 1: https://youtu.be/QQv4rl0FUJU
Part 2: https://youtu.be/_76r_BuQpu0
Part 3: https://youtu.be/-OEzEmT76Vo

### Video Tutorials : 

Flipped Normals (1 hr Introduction): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yKGfcp2z3k&ab_channel=FlippedNormals

Pixologic Youtube, #AskZbrush for specific tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/c/PixologicZBrush/playlists



## Anatomy Reading list:

Lanteri, E., 1965. Modelling and sculpting the human figure. New York, N.Y: Dover Publications.

Simblet, S. and Davis, J., 2001. Anatomy for the artist. London: Dorling Kindersley Limted

Zarins, U., 2017. Anatomy of facial expression. EU: Exonicus, INC

Zarins, U., 2014. Anatomy For Sculptors. EU: Exonicus, INC

Loomis, A., 1956. Drawing the head and hands. London: Titan Books

Bridgman, G., 1973. Constructive anatomy. New York

Schünke, M., Schulte, E. and Schumacher, U., 2010. Thieme atlas of anatomy. Stuttgart, Germany: Georg Thieme Verlag.

Goldfinger, E., 1991. Human anatomy for artists. oxford University press.

Spencer, S., 2011. ZBrush Character Creation. 2nd ed. Hoboken: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

Hogarth, B., 2003. Dynamic Anatomy: Revised and Expanded Edition. New York: Watson-Gutptill.

Feher, G. and Szunyoghy, A., 1999. Human Anatomy for Artists. Cambridge: Ullmann Publishing.

Barcsay, J., 1953. Anatomy for the artist. London: Little, Brown.
