ZBrush 2025 Redshift In-Depth Guide: Scene Setup, Materials, HDRI, Shadow Catchers & More!

This in-depth guide covers everything you need to know about using Redshift in ZBrush 2025! From scene setup and turning on the Redshift renderer to advanced features like HDRI lighting, shadow catchers, dynamic smoothing, and custom material settings. Whether you're a beginner or experienced user, this video will help you master Redshift rendering for high-quality results. Use the detailed timestamps below to jump to specific sections and learn at your own pace! (In order of appearance in video) ZBrush & C4D Redshift Rendering and Physics Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkzopwqcFevY_ryr_FSpXyeGRXHlWkNJg Lightcaps! ZBrush Image Based Lighting Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkzopwqcFevbu1wcYPaZtGtNW14LPLpWR Redshift Material Documentation: https://help.maxon.net/r3d/cinema/en-us/Content/html/Standard_Material.html IOR (Index of Refraction) List: https://pixelandpoly.com/ior.html Refractive Index dot Info https://refractiveindex.info/ BPR Filters! ZBrush 2019 Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkzopwqcFevYy-sNbrJR2W5qwtcQzc62A https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelPavlovich https://gumroad.com/pavlovich https://cubebrush.co/pavlovich https://www.instagram.com/pavmike/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/pavlovich/ http://3d.cgmasteracademy.com/instructors/michael-pavlovich.html https://www.artstation.com/michaelpavlovich https://sketchfab.com/pavlovich https://www.twitch.tv/pavmike 0:00 - Intro 1:00 - Scene setup 2:25 - Turning on Redshift Renderer in ZBrush 3:50 - Floor Settings 5:15 - Camera Settings and saving cameras 6:35 - Assigning Floor materials 9:00 - Assigning color to objects with Polypaint & Colorize 13:25 - Render Region and pause render 14:00 - Redshift Properties Smooth surface 15:43 - Control loops and Dynamic Smooth 19:15 - Crease and Dynamic SmoothSubdiv 22:38 - Turning off ZBrush default light 23:50 - Use Default Panorama on and off 24:11 - ZBrush Lights, Shadows & Settings 27:14 - Document background 27:44 - Image Size & Zoom 31:08 - Redshift Default Panorama 32:28 - Custom and Lightbox HDRI Panorama .exr files 35:10 - Background Settings - Gamma, Exposure & Rotate 37:19 - Floor Plane Shadow Catcher 38:10 - Geometry Plane Shadow Catcher 40:16 - Add Reflections to Shadow Catcher 41:07 - Render Recall 43:00 - Bucket Render Denoising, Quality & Error Threshold 46:19 - Progressive Rendering & Progressive Iterations 48:54 - Saving custom Redshift Materials 50:30 - Depth of Field 52:13 - Redshift Polypaint Materials vs Preset Materials 56:10 - Redshift Material Settings 59:05 - SSS Material Settings 1:00:34 - Emissive (Emission) Settings 1:02:00 - Timeline Movie Animated Camera Render 1:05:27 - Saving Project and Render Settings