We just released a new free plugin for ZBrush today: UV Master. yes, again a free one and we hope it will help all the artist by removing one of the most complex task in the 3D production: the UVs creation.
UV Master is originally a one click button plugin to make the UV creation accessible for all the “humans” (and not for the “Aliens” ) and which producing a result understandable in a 2D editor like Photoshop, if you need to tweak or paint manually your texture in 2D.
We also add to this easy step an optional one, which name is “Control Painting”: paint areas on your model where you want to attract the UV seams created by the plugin or paint areas where you don’t want to have seams (like the face of your character). It’s just painting areas, not accurate seam. The purpose is to quickly paint these areas in few strokes!
This control painting also include a Density mode which, still through painted strokes, can change the local density of the UVs and then, allowing more or less pixels density for your textures.
I hope that you will enjoy this plugin, your feedback is welcome!
A post which is a little bit off topic.. perhaps…
My grand father was a sculptor (wood and stone), i’m doing digital and clay sculpting and one of my two sisters is doing cooking sculpting! (Note, my other sister in LA is also a good cooks)!
I invite you to visit my sister’s blog, la Cocinera Loca, to discover some nice photos of what she is cooking. She already win several contests and have a real gift for creating great piece of art with nothing in the fridge. Sorry, it’s all in french, but the photos are speaking by themselves!
I will post soon some photos I did of my own cooking sculpting. It’s not like what my sister is doing, but I was proud of my first Japanese cooking (yakitori, maki, katsudo, oyakodon, etc..)
Bon, un billet un petit peu hors sujet, quoique… mon grand père maternel faisait de la sculpture sur pierre et sur bois, j’en fais sur glaise et de la numérique et une de mes deux sœur en fait, mais de la.. culinaire !
Bref, je vous invite à visiter son blog perso, la Cocinera Loca, dédié à sa cuisine, et les photos qui vont avec (elle fait de la photo comme moi) montrant ses sculptures culinaires. Au passage, votez pour elle à un petit concours, ca serait sympa !
This last Monday, I did a ZBrush training to the first year students of the ESMI school in Bordeaux. I like giving a training as it is always a good way to have the question that you don’t want to have, and then, you need to mix your knowledge to find the answer. Then, it’s a good way for me to learn too!
But the most important point of the day was the visit of the ex french Prime Minister, Alain Juppé (EN). He is currently the Bordeaux’s Mayor and decided to visit the school. We didn’t really know why he wanted to visit the school, but after some Google searches, I found that they want to create a kind of University Campus (FR) downtown, because of the hudge number of existing schools in the area.
Juppé came to my classroom and then, discover ZBrush. I wasn’t in his mind, but he didn’t gave me the impression of someone who had a lot of interest (perhaps too “old” for this kind of new technology). I also show him one of our demo real, including the Pirate of the Caribbean, Beowulf, Assassin creed, etc.. His reaction was clear: “Humm, a lot of violence and monsters”… Well, yes, he wasn’t right. Politically correct…
He did a small test of ZBrush on the Cintiq because I think he had the feeling that he have too… I just hope that this visit will bring some visibility of the ESMI School. It’s a young training center with a lot of motivation, then we will see if something new will happen in the next month, following this visit!
I’m so happy to do my 3D, discussing with artists and users, with my students and I’m so glad not doing political stuff!
) and which producing a result understandable in a 2D editor like Photoshop, if you need to tweak or paint manually your texture in 2D.
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