ZBrush Professional Tips and Techniques -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Understanding the Basics -- Customizing Your ZBrush -- Recovering Your Subdivision Levels -- Using Reproject Higher Subdivision -- Using Relax Deformation -- Using Local Subdivision -- Creating a Custom Tileable Alpha with 2.5D -- Using Alphas to Create Meshes -- Creating Wallpaper -- Creating Your Own Palette -- What's Next -- Artist Spotlight: Joe Lee -- Artist Spotlight: Magdalena Dadela -- Chapter 2: Special Project-Creating Accessories for a Bust -- Creating the ZMan Logo -- Creating the Zipper -- Creating the Stand -- Creating a Skin Texture -- What's Next -- Artist Spotlight: Morgan Morey -- Artist Spotlight: Zack Petroc -- Chapter 3: Sculpting-Developing Your Next Piece -- Using Hard-Edge Brush Techniques -- Adjusting and Creating Brushes -- Understanding the Power of ShadowBox -- Making Difficult Items with ZSpheres -- Using Morph Difference to Create Thickness -- Artist Spotlight: Tomas Wittelsbach -- Artist Spotlight: Vitaly Bulgarov -- Chapter 4: Sculpting Hard-Surface Details -- Creating a Hose Component -- Creating the Front Eye Piece -- Using NoiseMaker for Patterns -- Artist Spotlight: Sebastien Legrain -- Artist Spotlight: Steve Warner -- Chapter 5: Adding a Splash of Color -- Understanding the Basics of Polypaint -- Using AO to Colorize -- Using Mask By Cavity to Paint Out Detail -- Painting with UV Master -- Texturing with Projection Master -- Using Photoshop to Paint -- Using SpotLight -- Artist Spotlight: Michael Defeo -- Artist Spotlight: Rudy Massar -- Chapter 6: Working with Scan Data -- Starting with Scan Data -- Understanding How to Manipulate Scan Data -- Capturing Color from the Scan Data -- Making the Back Mesh of the Ball Cap -- Sculpting the Hair with FiberMesh.

Artist Spotlight: Mike Jensen -- Artist Spotlight: Bryan Wynia -- Chapter 7: Posing-Bringing Movement to Your Work -- Setting Up a ZSphere Rig with a Single Subtool -- Rigging a Single Subtool with Sculpted Detail -- Using a Rig with Transpose Master -- Creating Multiple Poses with Layers -- Assigning Multiple Poses to the Timeline -- Exporting Blend Shapes from ZBrush to Maya -- Artist Spotlight: Geert Melis -- Artist Spotlight: Marco Menco -- Chapter 8: Special Project-Creating Hockey Skates -- Creating the Laces -- Using a Custom Stitch Brush -- Using Decimation Master to Reduce Poly Count -- Artist Spotlight: Joseph Drust -- Artist Spotlight: Christopher Brändström -- Chapter 9: Rendering-Bringing Life to Your Image -- Rendering a More Realistic Eye -- Adjusting the Shadow Settings -- Creating an SSS Material -- Using the Filter System with BPR -- Artist Spotlight: Mark Dedecker -- Artist Spotlight: Julian Kenning -- Appendix: About the Companion DVD -- What You'll Find on the DVD -- System Requirements -- Using the DVD -- Troubleshooting -- Customer Care -- Index -- Wiley Publishing, Inc. End-User License Agreement.