Enhancing your Sculpts in ZBrush - Top Tip

In this ZBrush tutorial, how to enhance your sculpt. This is incredibly handy when you need certain features - or the entire sculpt - to pop. We use this a lot when sculpting in ZBrush and when you have to bring it to Maya or other render engines for final rendering.
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[@jessehenao4555]

I've had a lot of that "it was crisp in the sculpt but came out smoother in the map" so thank you guys ! :) keep it up

[@FlippedNormals]

Yes indeed - this happens a lot. A little bootleg sharpening on your mesh can do wonders :D

[@HairyAlpaca07]

Using the morph brush in combination with this (and with layers in general) is really powerful. Turn the layer off, create a morph target, turn the layer back on and then you can use the morph brush to dial the effect down in specific areas.

[@FlippedNormals]

Good point - thanks a lot!

[@jinchoung]

nice! i love quick little "i had no idea you could do that?!" tips! love your channel guys. there's a lot of cg stuff on youtube but your stuff stands out.

[@FlippedNormals]

Thanks a lot! This trick really blew my mind when I learnt it.
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[@joepeezly]

You guys... thank you. Thank you so much. I will probably use this nearly every time I sculpt something. As a concept artist, I like to paint over renders or use sculpts as reference for things. I'm ALWAYS wondering why my details look so smushy after sculpting! Never again!

[@FlippedNormals]

Awesome, thanks a lot Joe! :) Really glad it helped.
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[@freditoblank]

love this tips! they are very useful!. thanks from Perú!

[@FlippedNormals]

Cheers! We're sending our thanks from London

[@chrisphaeton4762]

Great tip. So time saving. Thanks

[@Yokain7]

Neat Trick! Nice use of the layer inversion tool.
Do you have any ideas on how this changes between Sub-D levels? If you were to divide again before smoothing, for instance, would the sharpening also be higher resolution?

[@FlippedNormals]

Thanks!
So in general, I'd highly advice AGAINST adding more subdivisions after you've created layers in ZBrush. Generally weird stuff starts to happen and it's a real nightmare from a pipeline point of view. Interesting question though!

[@davinhans3764]

Thanks for this awesome tutorial. i have a question though, how do you get the layer to work locally? like only on the eyes, is it in a separate subtool?

[@Joh00226]

He just did it localy on the video....

[@FlippedNormals]

We just smooth the eyes out, so there was nothing else affected :) Layers will only affect the areas you've modified.

[@davinhans3764]

Oh i did not know that, thank you for replying to my question :)

[@Arcadian_Atlas]

Saved me hours on my project, thank you!

[@mrexpendable1232]

Great tip! Keep em coming

[@erenjaeger2083]

please make a full UV tutorial guys please :(

[@FlippedNormals]

Just published a UV tutorial some days ago! :D Check it out! We'll do more advanced UV videos too in the future.

[@happilyeveralien]

Wow, this is suuuper helpful!

[@mulder_nz]

Amazing! Cheers dudes ❤️☺️

[@darijozivkovic7931]

I liked, and subscribed. Now more ZBrush tutorials :D

[@FlippedNormals]

Yes sir! We have a whole list of ZBrush tutorials to get through.

[@drawishes]

thats awesome! how do I do that in Blender? 😅

[@thattokyolifethoeatandlive5438]

very nice tip! thanks

[@canalpan9]

amazing one

[@delumen]

This helps a lot, thanks!

[@JayAnAm]

Hey, a nice one, liked and subbed.

[@FlippedNormals]

Thanks!

[@jaferalbahli]

Good effect but i want ask you this result only using layer or is there any script or plugin ?

[@FlippedNormals]

Hmm - honestly I have no idea if there's a script for this. It shouldnt be very hard to do using Macros, so I'm sure there's something like it out there.

[@jaferalbahli]

Thanks for replay me I try it I get like your result I use layer only but the value make it nagative. Thanks again

[@artsmodelstation9396]

Newbie question, Zbrushcore: created a character, nose is sharp but eyes blurry and other parts. How fix that ?

[@delnico974]

very cool ! useful, thx !

[@nimrodanimations]

Nice!

[@resetXform]

Super awesome!

[@preethamrr]

BEST CHANNEL EVER!!!!

[@FlippedNormals]

I mean... we think so too!

[@akshayyaravalli641]

great tip

[@Ruyanisme]

Sharpening your sculpt in Zbrush

[@amineroula]

cool tip

[@FlippedNormals]

Cheers Amine!

[@Farrukh3D]

Cool. Thanks for sharing :)

[@FlippedNormals]

Thanks man!

[@thdcinema]

i love "crispy mouths" ;0)

[@FlippedNormals]

;D

[@АртемФлудеев]

Благодарю, вообще супер!

[@hadriscus]

I'm surprised we have to go through that workaround, even Blender has that brush (flatten/contrast). Still, thanks for the tip !

[@FlippedNormals]

I'd love a brush like that in ZBrush too! Mudbox also has an amplify brush, which is really handy.

[@DaNil-ws8bc]

Niice

[@SteveTalkowski]

"crispy mouth" ;P

[@FlippedNormals]

:D

[@SteveTalkowski]

Seriously though, i'm really digging your tutorials - thanks for taking time to share with the community!

[@FlippedNormals]

Thanks Steve! Thats very much appreciated :)

[@k-vandan]

Whoaa

[@kowy_m]

wow

[@mnemosynegates625]

Wow holy shit