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Stephen Wells covers his process of sculpting, poly painting, and baking normal maps step-by-step for this Next-Gen Orc Head model. You will learn about various tools and workflow aspects of ZBrush and work your way through the sculpting process and become more familiar with the ZBrush interface and the use of its more powerful features.

Stephen Wells covers his process of sculpting, poly painting, and baking normal maps step-by-step for this Next-Gen Orc Head model. You will learn about various tools and workflow aspects of ZBrush and work your way through the sculpting process and become more familiar with the ZBrush interface and the use of its more powerful features.

Continuing his Tethered Islands series, Aaron Sims shares his techniques for building a creature in ZBrush. Using ZSpheres to design the initial body structure, Aaron develops the character from scratch. He then demonstrates how to skin the ZSpheres and add details, color and lighting. In XSI, Aaron discusses the basics of rigging, weighting, and animating the imported creature from ZBrush. Finally he covers how to pose, light, and render the creature in an XSI scene.

Based on another excellent concept from David Revoy, this series is set out to provide an in-depth look at an intense modeling workflow of a Sci-Fi vehicle. The amount of detail we will be modeling is both intimidating and exciting! If you take a look at the couple preview images below you will see what I mean. No tutorial on Blender Cookie has ever reached this amount of detail.
In this series we are taking an exclusive look at modeling only, thus we will be going for more in depth than usual.

High End Industry Photoshop Retouching Techniques Series One

Video tutorial on Photoshop retouching in. Text from the Back cover: As you know Already, the high end Retouching Industry Has Been very Tight lipped about the techniques to use They Produce World class results for magazines, Advertising campaigns, billboards and Displays Throughout the World. The Only Have Been That techniques readily available to the Public Have Been Called the SO "Soft skin smooth or" Methods That Simply blur or smudge the skin texture INTO an unrealistic Plastic Doll mess.

I think Glenn Vilppu needs no introduction. It seems that the very first of his lectures.

Glen Vilppu - 01 - Analyzing the Pose and Starting the Drawing
Glen Vilppu - 02 - The Procedural Approach to Drawing
Glen Vilppu - 03 - The Simplified Figure and Basic Structure
Glen Vilppu - 04 - Sketching Figures
Glen Vilppu - 05 - Analyzing Form Using Direct and Indirect Light to Model
Glen Vilppu - 06 - The Classical Approach to Figure Drawing
Glen Vilppu - 07 - Foreshortening