ZBrush Tips and Tricks: Creating a Baseball

This tutorial covers the creation of a baseball from a simple QCube using various tools and features within ZBrush to simplify the process of polishing, detailing and placing geometry over the sphere. The subject of this tutorial is a simple baseball but the focus of this video is on the various 'unknown' tips and tricks of the workflow. Find more about this tutorial and its resources at the ZBGs website: https://www.zbrushguides.com/tutorials/zbrush-tips-and-tricks-creating-a-baseball ✍️ Specialised In-depth courses and workshops: https://www.3dconceptartist.com/ 🎨 Tutorials and resources: https://www.zbrushguides.com/ ✂ Exclusive content and behind the scenes for monthly art projects: http://www.3dsnippets.com/ 💬 Join the PABLANDER Discord server: https://discord.gg/A35DmkWCPE 💻 Spect, tools and gadgets I use to produce my artwork: https://kit.co/pablander/my-3d-workstation 🚨 Subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXOeEvVK_pXktERIEftnRMg/?sub_confirmation=1 ⏱ TIMESTAMPS: 00:01:50:29 - Creating the base Mesh 00:04:26:19 - Polygroups for the patches 00:13:02:03 - Creating the base for the NanoMesh Stitch 00:15:04:03 - Gizmo 3D with Focal Shift 00:17:25:15 - Creating a NanoMesh Brush and Using it 00:19:37:29 - Refining the Stitches 00:20:19:12 - Editing the Stitches using Nanomesh 00:22:05:22 - Creating the tension holes for the stitches 00:24:47:22 - The Intersection Masker Plugin 00:28:21:25 - 'Repeat to similar parts' feature (ZBrush 2024) 00:30:06:08 - The Undo History 00:33:02:05 - Creating the Crevice between the stitches 00:38:06:08 - Refining the Stitches 00:40:23:13 - Quick way to generate surface details with the noise palette 🔗 VIDEO LINKS: Giger & Beksinski Tribute Brushes pack for ZBrush: https://zbrushguides.store/products/giger-beksinski-tribute-brushes-pack-for-zbrush https://www.artstation.com/pablander https://www.instagram.com/pablander/