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Zbrush character animation in 3d studio max?

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

Hello there! My name is Greg and i almost a new Zbrush user. In fact i am watching some tutorials online about this fantastic program and i want to purchase it but i have some questions first. I am 3d studio max user and i want to know if i can send a character in Zbrush after creating him in max, make the details i want and then import him back into 3d max and give him bones , animate it etc. what about the skining and how well it will work since he will have plenty of polygons. Do you have any examples of your experience or others? Any videos?

Any help will be appreciated.
Thank you for your time

G

#2

onece you have finished your sculp you may want to retopologise it in zbrush to optomise the poly flow…it’s an option you don’t have to…

anyway you then go down to lowest level you want and then make a displacement map and use this and the lo poly version over in max

also you can use a lo poly versionand a" normal map"

you’d also create a cavity map in zbrush and use that for bump map

in zbrush you can also paint your model…a pretty good all round app really,
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#3

i do know you can transfer something you create in Max to zbrush by exporting it as a .obj file and importing it as a tool in zbrush - then you can export it again from zbrush back into max - so there are options for transferring between the two - zbrush can cause some weird polygon shifts though because of the way you manipulate the polygons, though I know there’s a way to retopologize in that situation that I can’t quite explain very well at the moment.

the only thing about Zbrush is that the interface takes a bit of getting used to. It’s very different from most programs and certainly different than max. I’m glad I have somebody telling me how to do simple things, because IMO the UI is not very user-friendly.

#4

thanks for the reply you guys! but i still don’t know if i can animate that .obj file… it sounds like hell. if anyone did any work in zbrush [characters] and animated it i would like to see it.

Thanks again

#5

animations with zbrush characters are EVERYWHERE!

gears of war 2 xbox360 game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL_ZjJgbDmc

pirates of the caribbean>>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rz4h0AT5iY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFxMWP7Ciuc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrD0gUvx954&feature=related