This two-disc set follows ZBrush master Meats Meier through the process of creating his "Arm Upgrade" illustration, from concept to final print. Designed for the artist familiar with ZBrush and its tools, this lecture provides a rare glimpse into the workflow and techniques of this accomplished artist. As Meats creates his detailed imagery, he explains his wire style and the process of using materials, layers and easy light setups. This lecture demonstrates the ease and advantages of using ZBrush's 2.5D environment to create complex high-resolution imagery.

• Layers
  
• Materials
  
• Lights
  
• Rendering
  
• Zspheres
  
• Image Processing Using 2.5D Tools

Chapters: Disk One
1. Zspheres
2. Main Modeling Part 1
3. Main Modeling Part 2
4. Wire style
5. Layers
6. Skinny Arm
7. Head Creation
8. Details
9. Extra Arm Part

Chapters: Disk Two
1. Face Material
2. Humasset
3. Background Humasset
4. More Adjustments
5. Eyebrows
6. Little Guy
7. Clouds
8. Background
9. Render and Tweaks

• Product Code: MME03
• ISBN: 1-59762-945-6
• UPC: 805366016135
• Duration: 323 minutes
• Formats: DVD-ROM

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Meats Meier

3D Artist

Meats Meier is currently a freelance illustrator and animator living in Hollywood, California. He taught the first ever ZBrush course at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects, and is the author of four training DVDs produced by The Gnomon Workshop. Meats is also an award-winning digital artist (including two Expose' Master awards) with over a decade of experience in a wide range of artistic fields. He has worked as an airbrush artist, lead artist at a video game studio, technical director and compositor on feature films, and has had a successful career as an independent artist and illustrator. Meier's artwork has been on the cover of numerous books, magazines and web sites and he was honored with the prestigious "Maya Master" title by Alias at SIGGRAPH 2003. Meats is now working on several music videos and merchandise for major recording artists.