Tips sculpting cape Fabric Sculpting Techniques for Zbrush. Zbrush Clothing Series - Clothing Set 3. ZBrush Clothes Tutorial. January 2009 In this short breakdown I will show you how I did the clothes on the “For the King” project. I think the first and most important step is that you start to familiarize yourself with the object you are trying to model and its behavior. I used flickr.com and google for my research and searched everything related to fabric and cloth. It helps also to search for other artists work to learn how they handle the subject. After I had collected a folder full of images I made a few quick sketches for a better understanding of folds and wrinkles. I aimed to make some really thin and slightly translucent fabric. For the cloth basemesh I have exported a midres version of the character mesh out of Zbrush and brought it into 3ds max.
After I was done with the mesh, I have exported every piece as an OBJ and attached it as subtools to my main character mesh in ZBrush. Download Selwy’s cloth brushes + .ZTL file, 4mb (right click, save as) ZBrush3.5R3 Grow Selection.