ESSENTIAL ZBRUSH

19Texturing the Guardian’s Body

A Few Words Before We Start

I want to take a few minutes to outline the main points of the texturing workflow that all users will hopefully find interesting. Although this section on texturing both the head and body has many parts that will be of great benefit to both new and advanced ZBrush users, it also contains some theory that may be surprising. One is the way I create the base texture.

So what is a base texture? A base texture is what we create or use on our model before doing the “serious painting” that adds the details that we need to the color of the character. A base texture is very important and can actually make or break a character in many ways as color is so important when judging things visually. ...