CG Painter, June 27th 2013

Yes,  After some days looking for information, I'm happy to say, I've found some useful sources which I'll like to share with you at the end of this post.

So after studying a lot about design, and painting, and art and 3d sculpt (brain overheat!)

I've come to some stuck point, some things that, sources as books can't respond, I wish they could but, at the turn of the page, is a new panorama, and it just left a lot of gray behind...

Here is a problem I've found, we have some freedom in order to control the viewer's eye and make some points contrast with the rest of the composition, well that's good news but, We enter into a conflict, how much can we push it?

in example (a) we can see a boring contrast, the viewer eye don't know what is happening there, too few contrast can cause a complete lose of the viewer intrest, but at example (b) there is an exaggeration, do you remember what I told you? We can manipulate this factor but the problem can be bigger than you tought:

What's the correct contrast of the scene? WITHOUT loosing realism and break the illustion of depth?

Here is a very very very important factor of the overall union, depth, maybe we can solve that with perspective or light effect but, falling into realism involves loosing control in contrast.

You can see that in example (c), there is a common color contrast but as you can see, the red part screams for attention and there is not such appealing realism opportunity in there, looks too exagerated, so how can we solve this problem?

Doing realism without caring about contrast?

Doing contrast loosing realism?

Take care of composition and have few contrast and depth?

In the middle of this searching about design and to make it clear, I'm not really familiar with the fundamentals and even theories about design, I'm an intuitive person but never tought about this way of thinking until now, about everything I've read until now, my word for describing design should be "Think"

Even there is a visual language which I'm not familiar with it, and I'll post about it soon, but sounds really interesting and finally got some kind of few questions finally answered. I'll let you an image about this searching and you will find that this is an obvious assumption, but this kind of theory gives us some sort of guide in order to come up with good answers, thinking outside the frame, will make all choices possible, then get unusual results, but as I said in my previous post, how far is it possible to go to don't lose the human eye. "Going far but close enough, and being close and far enough in order to people make sense of what we are doing, without falling in useless and illogic results."

Well, I understimate design a lot, now I'm paying the price.
neccesity is the mother of invention ...

Well More progress is up to come and I'm finally happy to know more aboutthat mysterious design thing which don't let me sleep.

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As Is tradition, here is some practices I've been doing not too long ago, remember, CG actally is not the main point of this blog, but I hope you can take some useful things from here and avoid hitting the same rock as me in time.

And a little early but here is the before and after review of the progress of my paintings from 2012 until now, this is not a great evaluation, and even accurate, but helps to proof some things. Keep ON!.

More to come, Stay tune! KOD

Colour theory.- Real Color Wheel

                                                     My Livestream.- Livestream Goodendgraphics

SUMMER 2013

Every season of the year is an amazing moment for a retrospection of the progress, I like the way world changes through time and let us a lot of new experiences and lessons from life, we maybe seem strong but, all of us have some past from which we want to get away from as far as we can but, only time can heal the scars, no more speaking and let's back to the post!

This Time I show you the Pixologic Zbrush interface, at this point I was forgeting the way it works so, I want to give it another chance in order to get better at it, I have seen a lot of amazing sculpture artwork and Im eager to do some of those (if I'm able to)

Okay this is an old model of my OC Merit, I know I know, maybe looks crappy , and I apologize for that, but we have to start from something right?

There is a screenshot of my OC in profile and with some confusing Zbrush UI elements which I will break down here:

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Don't let this scare you, Developers and software is meant to be easy for use, think of the new software as a tool, not an enemy, programmers will make our job as easy as they can but in order to be, there should be more options for support this, imagine just 2 buttons for "create sculpture" and "magic render" (I wish it could be that way but in real life, and in CG work as well, that is impossible, there is 1 element missing and it is you, your creativity, so there is no other option of taking the hours, the days or even years to digging into something and finally get familiar with it, so this is what I have been learning.-
(I marked the names of the menus down here)

Every menu have a specific function and depending on what you are up to, you will need certain windows and tools, so not all the time you will be using all menu, maybe later I'll do some sculpt videos, but I need to learn more for do that, I'm interested in exporting my sculpt into a 3d program, I'll be using Autodesk Maya and 3ds Max for this, I HAVE NO IDEA yet, about the methodology of this process, but I get some unusual results down here.
proceed in following this steps after completing your sculpt.

Select Maya or your application for GozPath and Bingo, that's all you need to do, don't forget to get some Uvs and maps to get the sculpt with lower geometry (Im still confused about this part)

Here is the sculpture in a 3d application (Yeah!!!!!! now what?) well I tried to render it out and well, it had no material in it like in zbrush, so maybe those materials are just for zbrush previsualization, it exports every map you assing to the model into a blinn material, so it does a good job, anyway, lets keep moving.

And here is the render with some notes. Kind of dissapointed from the Zbrush result but, Do not get me wrong, I'm still an amateur Zbrush user so, I can swear, I missed so many steps, anyway, here is my best result, there is some stuff for improvement like topology, which I need to investigate and poly count, (damn this model was over 1 million of polygons!
But overall, I'm eager to keep reading more tutorials about this amazing software, I mean, I have never used this kind of software, is so intuitive and makes you feel like true sculpture student.

Here is some Merit Illustrations (My OC from above)

I hope I can come with better results next time!

let's keep learning!

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The understanding of anatomy should be not a problem at this point (give a look at my firsts blog posts, you will find everything in there) now the challenge is exaggerate or express human anatomy in an aesthetic way, Im kinda bad in that but, let's see what we can do.

KOD.

Windows,Photoshop and Zbrush [Full list of Shortcuts]

It has been a long, long time since my last blog post (almost 2 months absence!), the reason is, my work, fortunately I have been busy and getting use of the experience gained from this record, anyways, if ever get involved into a work, a creative work, you should treat it as it is, people don't care of what you like or what you don't like, they just want the work done and that's it, sad as it is, at the end it really doesn't matter because we just sell products, but don't let this fool you, art and design is what bring you here in the first place, so you have to learn to be a good double masked individual in order of getting good results without loosing your mind in the financial problem. Anyway, people will never understand what art means to us and they will try to trick you so don't be rational, rather than that, be smart.

Back into the post, I want to recover, this is not a straight forward painting blog or illustration, This is a progress record so if I want to do something, I will just learn it ... if you want to follow along, you can be very welcome, and tips can be shared, in my coming posts, I will finally post some design theory practice, and 3D Digital sculpting, I'll be using Zbrush and Photoshop for this, a lot of my friends have asked me for show more progress in a way of a tutorial but, hey! I really want to do that but there is a problem...
I have a lot of trouble and questions about a lot of things, and that will make my tutorials even a problem for you too in order to learn, because I will share just my confusion, and you will get more confused as well, I promise tutorials will come soon but meanwhile, we can learn along, as mentioned, I'll start using Pixologic Zbrush in the coming posts, and I'll link the work to autodesk 3ds max and Maya.
Every new thing I'll post it here, so come on! join the cause and let's learn!


MEANWHILE
Here is a good tip a friend told me to do, I'm really not that technical type and I have bad memory, so this can be helpful to boost the working time in this OS as well as the programs I mentioned before.
Shortcuts can make things way faster than in mere hard work, so in order to advance faster we can do anything, really, anything...
I'll be posting Zbrush UI and progress soon, as well as design theory, so stay tune,
with no more to say, I share to you this list of Shorcuts and I hope it can help you, it helped me.
(full list links are in the end of this post)
KOD.

Windows Shortcuts____________________________________________________________

Windows system key combinations

• F1: Help
• CTRL+ESC: Open Start menu
• ALT+TAB: Switch between open programs
• ALT+F4: Quit program
• SHIFT+DELETE: Delete item permanently
• Windows Logo+L: Lock the computer (without using CTRL+ALT+DELETE)

Windows program key combinations

• CTRL+C: Copy
• CTRL+X: Cut
• CTRL+V: Paste
• CTRL+Z: Undo
• CTRL+B: Bold
• CTRL+U: Underline
• CTRL+I: Italic

Mouse click/keyboard modifier combinations for shell objects

• SHIFT+right click: Displays a shortcut menu containing alternative commands
• SHIFT+double click: Runs the alternate default command (the second item on the menu)
• ALT+double click: Displays properties
• SHIFT+DELETE: Deletes an item immediately without placing it in the Recycle Bin

General keyboard-only commands

• F1: Starts Windows Help
• F10: Activates menu bar options
• SHIFT+F10 Opens a shortcut menu for the selected item (this is the same as right-clicking an object
• CTRL+ESC: Opens the Start menu (use the ARROW keys to select an item)
• CTRL+ESC or ESC: Selects the Start button (press TAB to select the taskbar, or press SHIFT+F10 for a context menu)
• CTRL+SHIFT+ESC: Opens Windows Task Manager
• ALT+DOWN ARROW: Opens a drop-down list box
• ALT+TAB: Switch to another running program (hold down the ALT key and then press the TAB key to view the task-switching window)
• SHIFT: Press and hold down the SHIFT key while you insert a CD-ROM to bypass the automatic-run feature
• ALT+SPACE: Displays the main window's System menu (from the System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the window)
• ALT+- (ALT+hyphen): Displays the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) child window's System menu (from the MDI child window's System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the child window)
• CTRL+TAB: Switch to the next child window of a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) program
• ALT+underlined letter in menu: Opens the menu
• ALT+F4: Closes the current window
• CTRL+F4: Closes the current Multiple Document Interface (MDI) window
• ALT+F6: Switch between multiple windows in the same program (for example, when the Notepad Find dialog box is displayed, ALT+F6 switches between the Find dialog box and the main Notepad window)

Shell objects and general folder/Windows Explorer shortcuts

For a selected object:

• F2: Rename object
• F3: Find all files
• CTRL+X: Cut
• CTRL+C: Copy
• CTRL+V: Paste
• SHIFT+DELETE: Delete selection immediately, without moving the item to the Recycle Bin
• ALT+ENTER: Open the properties for the selected object

To copy a file

Press and hold down the CTRL key while you drag the file to another folder.

To create a shortcut

Press and hold down CTRL+SHIFT while you drag a file to the desktop or a folder.

General folder/shortcut control

• F4: Selects the Go To A Different Folder box and moves down the entries in the box (if the toolbar is active in Windows Explorer)
• F5: Refreshes the current window.
• F6: Moves among panes in Windows Explorer
• CTRL+G: Opens the Go To Folder tool (in Windows 95 Windows Explorer only)
• CTRL+Z: Undo the last command
• CTRL+A: Select all the items in the current window
• BACKSPACE: Switch to the parent folder
• SHIFT+click+Close button: For folders, close the current folder plus all parent folders

Windows Explorer tree control

• Numeric Keypad *: Expands everything under the current selection
• Numeric Keypad +: Expands the current selection
• Numeric Keypad -: Collapses the current selection.
• RIGHT ARROW: Expands the current selection if it is not expanded, otherwise goes to the first child
• LEFT ARROW: Collapses the current selection if it is expanded, otherwise goes to the parent

Properties control

• CTRL+TAB/CTRL+SHIFT+TAB: Move through the property tabs

Accessibility shortcuts

• Press SHIFT five times: Toggles StickyKeys on and off
• Press down and hold the right SHIFT key for eight seconds: Toggles FilterKeys on and off
• Press down and hold the NUM LOCK key for five seconds: Toggles ToggleKeys on and off
• Left ALT+left SHIFT+NUM LOCK: Toggles MouseKeys on and off
• Left ALT+left SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN: Toggles high contrast on and off

Microsoft Natural Keyboard keys

• Windows Logo: Start menu
• Windows Logo+R: Run dialog box
• Windows Logo+M: Minimize all
• SHIFT+Windows Logo+M: Undo minimize all
• Windows Logo+F1: Help
• Windows Logo+E: Windows Explorer
• Windows Logo+F: Find files or folders
• Windows Logo+D: Minimizes all open windows and displays the desktop
• CTRL+Windows Logo+F: Find computer
• CTRL+Windows Logo+TAB: Moves focus from Start, to the Quick Launch toolbar, to the system tray (use RIGHT ARROW or LEFT ARROW to move focus to items on the Quick Launch toolbar and the system tray)
• Windows Logo+TAB: Cycle through taskbar buttons
• Windows Logo+Break: System Properties dialog box
• Application key: Displays a shortcut menu for the selected item

Microsoft Natural Keyboard with IntelliType software installed

• Windows Logo+L: Log off Windows
• Windows Logo+P: Starts Print Manager
• Windows Logo+C: Opens Control Panel
• Windows Logo+V: Starts Clipboard
• Windows Logo+K: Opens Keyboard Properties dialog box
• Windows Logo+I: Opens Mouse Properties dialog box
• Windows Logo+A: Starts Accessibility Options (if installed)
• Windows Logo+SPACEBAR: Displays the list of Microsoft IntelliType shortcut keys
• Windows Logo+S: Toggles CAPS LOCK on and off

Dialog box keyboard commands

• TAB: Move to the next control in the dialog box
• SHIFT+TAB: Move to the previous control in the dialog box
• SPACEBAR: If the current control is a button, this clicks the button. If the current control is a check box, this toggles the check box. If the current control is an option, this selects the option.
• ENTER: Equivalent to clicking the selected button (the button with the outline)
• ESC: Equivalent to clicking the Cancel button
• ALT+underlined letter in dialog box item: Move to the corresponding item

Photoshop Shortcuts__________________________________________________________

V Move tool

M Rectangular Marquee tool, EllipticalMarquee tool

L Lasso tool, Polygonal Lasso tool, MagneticLasso tool

W Magic Wand tool,Quick Selection tool

C Crop tool

K Slice tool, Slice Select tool

J Spot Healing Brush tool, Healing Brushtool, Patch tool, Red Eye tool

B Brush tool, Pencil tool, ColorReplacement tool

S Clone Stamp tool, Pattern Stamp tool

Y History Brush tool, Art History Brushtool

E Eraser tool, BackgroundEraser tool, Magic Eraser tool (in Photoshop)

G Gradient tool, Paint Bucket tool

R Blur tool, Sharpen tool, Smudgetool

O Dodge tool, Burn tool, Spongetool

P Pen tool, Freeform Pen tool

T Horizontal Type tool, Vertical Typetool , Horizontal Type mask tool, Vertical Type mask tool

A Path Selection tool,Direct Selectiontool

U Rectangle tool, Rounded Rectangle tool, Ellipsetool, Polygon tool, Line tool , Custom Shape tool

N Notes tool, Audio Annotation tool (in Photoshop)

List of Adobe Photoshop CS5 shortcut keys - 1

I Eyedropper tool, ColorSampler tool, Measure tool, Count tool

H Hand tool

Z Zoom tool

Keys for selecting tools in the Extract Toolbox

B Edge Highlighter tool

G Fill tool

I Eyedropper tool

C Cleanup tool

T Edge Touchup tool

Keys for selecting tools in the Liquify Toolbox

W Forward Warp tool

R Reconstruct tool

C Twirl Clockwise tool

S Pucker tool

B Bloat tool

O Push Left tool

M Mirror tool

T Turbulence tool

F Freeze Mask tool

D Thaw Mask tool

Keys for viewing images

This partial list provides shortcuts that don’t appear in menu commands or tool tips.

Result	Windows	Mac OS
Cycle through open documents	Control + Tab	Control + Tab
Switch to previous document	Shift + Control + Tab	Shift + Command + `
Close a file in Photoshop and open Bridge	Shift-Control-W	Shift-Command-W
Toggle between Standard mode and Quick Mask mode	Q	Q
Toggle (forward) between Standard screen mode, Full screen mode with menu bar, and Full screen mode	F	F
Toggle (backward) between Standard screen mode, Full screen mode with menu bar, and Full screen mode	Shift + F	Shift + F
Toggle (forward) canvas color	Space + F (or right-click canvas background and select color)	Space + F (or Control-click canvas background and select color)
Toggle (backward) canvas color	Space + Shift + F	Space + Shift + F
Fit image in window	Double-click Hand tool	Double-click Hand tool
Magnify 100%	Double-click Zoom tool or Ctrl + 1	Double-click Zoom tool or Command + 1
Switch to Hand tool (when not in text-edit mode)	Spacebar	Spacebar
Simultaneously pan multiple documents simultaneously with Hand tool	Shift-drag	Shift-drag
Switch to Zoom In tool	Control + spacebar	Command + spacebar
Switch to Zoom Out tool	Alt + spacebar	Option + spacebar
Move Zoom marquee while dragging with the Zoom tool	Spacebar-drag	Spacebar-drag
Apply zoom percentage, and keep zoom percentage box active	Shift + Enter in Navigator panel zoom percentage box	Shift + Return in Navigator panel zoom percentage box
Zoom in on specified area of an image	Control-drag over preview in Navigator panel	Command-drag over preview in Navigator panel
Temporarily zoom into an image	Hold down H and then click in the image and hold down the mouse button	Hold down H and then click in the image and hold down the mouse button
Scroll image with Hand tool	Spacebar-drag, or drag view area box in Navigator panel	Spacebar-drag, or drag view area box in Navigator panel
Scroll up or down 1 screen	Page Up or Page Down†	Page Up or Page Down†
Scroll up or down 10 units	Shift + Page Up or Page Down†	Shift + Page Up or Page Down†
Move view to upper-left corner or lower right corner	Home or End	Home or End
Toggle layer mask on/off as rubylith (layer mask must be selected)	\ (backslash)	\ (backslash)

Keys for painting

This partial list provides shortcuts that don’t appear in menu commands or tool tips.

Result	Windows	Mac OS
Select foreground color from color picker	Any painting tool + Shift + Alt + right-click and drag	Any painting tool + Control + Option + Command and drag
Select foreground color from image with Eyedropper tool	Any painting tool + Alt or any shape tool + Alt (except when Paths option is selected)	Any painting tool + Option or any shape tool + Option (except when Paths option is selected)
Select background color	Eyedropper tool + Alt-click	Eyedropper tool + Option-click
Color sampler tool	Eyedropper tool + Shift	Eyedropper tool + Shift
Deletes color sampler	Color sampler tool + Alt-click	Color sampler tool + Option-click
Sets opacity, tolerance, strength, or exposure for painting mode	Any painting or editing tool + number keys (e.g., 0 = 100%, 1 = 10%, 4 then 5 in quick succession = 45%) (When airbrush option is enabled, use Shift + number keys)	Any painting or editing tool + number keys (e.g., 0 = 100%, 1 = 10%, 4 then 5 in quick succession = 45%) (When airbrush option is enabled, use Shift + number keys)
Sets flow for painting mode	Any painting or editing tool + Shift + number keys (e.g., 0 = 100%, 1 = 10%, 4 then 5 in quick succession = 45%) (When airbrush option is enabled, omit Shift)	Any painting or editing tool + Shift + number keys (e.g., 0 = 100%, 1 = 10%, 4 then 5 in quick succession = 45%) (When airbrush option is enabled, omit Shift)
Mixer Brush changes Mix setting	Alt + Shift + number	Option + Shift + number
Mixer Brush changes Wet setting	Number keys	Number key
Mixer Brush changes Wet and Mix to zero	00	00
Cycle through blending modes	Shift + + (plus) or – (minus)	Shift + + (plus) or – (minus)
Open Fill dialog box on background or standard layer	Backspace or Shift + Backspace	Delete or Shift + Delete
Fill with foreground or background color	Alt + Backspace or Control + Backspace†	Option + Delete or Command + Delete†
Fill from history	Control + Alt + Backspace†	Command + Option + Delete†
Displays Fill dialog box	Shift + Backspace	Shift + Delete
Lock transparent pixels on/off	/ (forward slash)	/ (forward slash)
Connects points with a straight line	Any painting tool + Shift-click	Any painting tool + Shift-click

Keys for blending modes

Result	Windows	Mac OS
Cycle through blending modes	Shift + + (plus) or – (minus)	Shift + + (plus) or – (minus)
Normal	Shift + Alt + N	Shift + Option + N
Dissolve	Shift + Alt + I	Shift + Option + I
Behind (Brush tool only)	Shift + Alt + Q	Shift + Option + Q
Clear (Brush tool only)	Shift + Alt + R	Shift + Option + R
Darken	Shift + Alt + K	Shift + Option + K
Multiply	Shift + Alt + M	Shift + Option + M
Color Burn	Shift + Alt + B	Shift + Option + B
Linear Burn	Shift + Alt + A	Shift + Option + A
Lighten	Shift + Alt + G	Shift + Option + G
Screen	Shift + Alt + S	Shift + Option + S
Color Dodge	Shift + Alt + D	Shift + Option + D
Linear Dodge	Shift + Alt + W	Shift + Option + W
Overlay	Shift + Alt + O	Shift + Option + O
Soft Light	Shift + Alt + F	Shift + Option + F
Hard Light	Shift + Alt + H	Shift + Option + H
Vivid Light	Shift + Alt + V	Shift + Option + V
Linear Light	Shift + Alt + J	Shift + Option + J
Pin Light	Shift + Alt + Z	Shift + Option + Z
Hard Mix	Shift + Alt + L	Shift + Option + L
Difference	Shift + Alt + E	Shift + Option + E
Exclusion	Shift + Alt + X	Shift + Option + X
Hue	Shift + Alt + U	Shift + Option + U
Saturation	Shift + Alt + T	Shift + Option + T
Color	Shift + Alt + C	Shift + Option + C
Luminosity	Shift + Alt + Y	Shift + Option + Y
Desaturate	Sponge tool + Shift + Alt + D	Sponge tool + Shift + Option + D
Saturate	Sponge tool + Shift + Alt + S	Sponge tool + Shift + Option + S
Dodge/burn shadows	Dodge tool/Burn tool + Shift + Alt + S	Dodge tool/Burn tool + Shift + Option + S
Dodge/burn midtones	Dodge tool/Burn tool + Shift + Alt + M	Dodge tool/Burn tool + Shift + Option + M
Dodge/burn highlights	Dodge tool/Burn tool + Shift + Alt + H	Dodge tool/Burn tool + Shift + Option + H
Set blending mode to Threshold for bitmap images, Normal for all other images	Shift + Alt + N	Shift + Option + N

Zbrush Shortcuts__________________________________________________________

1 General Shortcuts

Open Project – Ctrl+O

Save Project – Ctrl+S

Undo – Ctrl+Z

Redo – Shift+Ctrl+Z

Popup selection (on PC only)

Tools – F1

Brushes – F2

Strokes – F3

Alphas – F4

Textures – F5

Materials – F6 (with cursor off canvas area)

Show QuickMenu – Spacebar or Right Mouse click

Show/hide floating palettes – TAB

Show item description (when Popup Info is switched on) – Ctrl+cursor over item

Show alternative item description – Ctrl+Alt+cursor over item

Assign custom hotkey – Ctrl+Alt+click on item (store hotkeys in Preferences> Hotkeys submenu)

Projection Master – G

2 Lightbox and Spotlight

Show/hide Lightbox – , [comma key]

load selected item – Double-click on Lightbox thumbnail (texture/alphas will be loaded into Spotlight if it is active)

Turn on/off Spotlight – Shift+Z

Show/hide Spotlight Dial – Z

3 Edit mode Navigation

with a 3D mesh in Edit mode -

Free Rotate – Click & drag Background

Move – Alt+Click & drag Background

Constrain to 90-degree rotation – Click+drag, press Shift

Scale – Alt+Click, Release Alt, drag Background

Rotate around Z-axis – Shift, Click, release Shift, drag

(For best results turn off RightClick Navigation in the Preferences>Interface menu.)

3.1 Right-Click Navigation

(Turn on RightClick Navigation in the Preferences>Interface menu.)

Move – Alt+Right-click & drag (can be over the model)

Scale – Ctrl+Right-click & drag (can be over the model)

Rotate – Right-click & drag (can be over the model)

4 Transpose

• with a 3D mesh in Edit mode, click W, E, R and draw the orange action line
• click on the mesh to reposition the action line aligned to the surface normal
• to align to an axis, click the end of the red, green or blue axis line

To move action line while drawing – hold Spacebar

To move action line after drawing – click+drag orange line or center orange ring

To change action line end point position – click+drag orange end ring

• Quick tip: in Move/Scale mode, Alt+click+drag on the mesh (not on action line) to move or scale mesh

4.1 Inner (red/white) ring actions

These actions apply to the inner red or white rings of the action line. The terms center or end refer to the position on the line.

Move mode – W

Move – click+drag center

Duplicate mesh – Ctrl+click+drag center

Bend mesh – Alt+click+drag center or end point

Stretch mesh – drag end point furthest from mesh

Flatten mesh – drag end point next to mesh

Inflate – Right-click+drag end ring furthest from mesh

Create Edgeloop & extrude – with partially masked mesh, hold Ctrl and click+drag center point

Scale – E

Scale – click+drag end point in line direction

Scale along axis – click+drag center point

Create Edgeloop and deflate/inflate – with partially masked mesh, hold Ctrl and click+drag center point

Rotate – R

Rotate around end point – click+drag other end point

Rotate around action line – Click+drag center

Joint bend – Alt+click+drag end point (rotation around same point)

5 Sculpting and Painting

Draw Size – S

Focal Shift – O

RGB Intensity – I

Z Intensity – U

Increase Draw Size by set units – ]

Decrease Draw Size by set units – [

(set increment in the Zplugin>Misc Utilities>Brush Increment slider)

Edit mode on/off - T

Draw - Q

Move - W

Scale - E

Rotate - R

Toggle ZAdd and ZSub - Alt (hold down)

5.1 Sculpting Brushes

Show Brush pop-up - B

Standard Brush - B - S - T

Smooth Stronger - B - S - S

Move Elastic - B - M - E

MPolish - B - M - P

ClipCurve - B - C - C

ClayLine - B - C - L

5.1.1 InsertMultiMesh brushes

show all meshes in brush - M

5.1.2 Changing the Brush hotkeys (pop-up palette)

Here is what you have to do:

• Click B to bring up the brush palette.
• Then click the letter that you want to narrow down to, in this example click C.
• With C clicked all you will see is the brushes that start with C. This is when you will see the next letter that selects the brush.
• At this point you can hold CTRL+ALT to change the shortcut to whatever you want by just clicking on the brush and then click your new shortcut.

NOTE: Keep in mind that when you do this ZBrush automatically replaces the shortcut of another brush if you select a shortcut that is already assigned.

5.2 Color

Select Color under cursor - C

Switch Color - V

5.3 Stroke

Lazy mouse - L

Replay Last Stroke - 1

Record Stroke - 3

Replay All Recorded Strokes – 2

5.3.1 Curves

Smooth curve - 6

Snapshot curve - 5

Delete a curve - Alt + draw across curve

6 3D Models

Save Tool - Shift+Ctrl+T

Fit Mesh to view - F

Perspective – P

Floor Grid - Shift+P

Activate Symmetry - X

Show/hide Polyframe & polygroups - Shift+F

Point Selection Mode - Shift+Ctrl+P

Set Pivot Point – Ctrl+ P

Clear Pivot Point - Shift+P

Snapshot a version to canvas - Shift+S

6.1 SubTools

List all SubTools - N

Alt+click on SubTool - select that SubTool

Shift+Alt+click on selected SubTool - frame that SubTool (Note this option can be set in the Preferences > Edit > Enable Auto Center slider; 0 = off; 1 = Alt+click; 2 = Shift+Alt+click)

Click on paintbrush icon - toggle Polypaint Colorize

Shift+click on paintbrush icon - toggle Polypaint Colorize for all SubTools

6.2 Geometry

Divide - Ctrl+D

Lower Res - Shift+D

Higher Res - D

Edge Loop – Ctrl+E (partially hidden mesh)

6.3 Dynamesh

Remesh Dynamesh sculpt - in Edit > Draw mode Ctrl+Drag Background

6.4 HD Geometry

Toggle in/out of HD Sculpting mode – A (cursor over mesh)

Render all HD Geometry – A (cursor over background)

6.5 Masking

View Mask - Ctrl+H

Invert Mask - Ctrl+I

Clear Mask - Shift+Ctrl+A

Mask All – Ctrl+A

Select Masking Brush - hold Ctrl while selecting brush from popup

Paint mask on object (alphas/strokes can be used) - Ctrl (hold down)

Delete or paint reverse mask – Ctrl+Alt (hold down)

Reverse mask – Ctrl+Click Background

Clear Mask – Ctrl+Click+ drag Background

Constant-intensity mask - Ctrl+Click, release Ctrl, drag (starting off mesh)

Alpha-intensity mask (using MaskPen or MaskRect brush) - Ctrl+Click & drag

(select alpha while holding Ctrl)

Blur mask - Ctrl+Click on mesh

Sharpen mask - Ctrl+Alt+Click on mesh

6.6 Topological Masking

in Move, Scale or Rotate mode - Ctrl+click+drag the action line on the model

6.7 Polygroups

Group Masked and Clear Mask - Ctrl+W

6.8 Partial Mesh Visibility & Clip Brushes

Select Selection or Clip Brush - hold Shift+Ctrl while selecting brush from popup

Show mesh portion – Shift+Ctrl+Click, release keys & drag (green selection area)

Hide mesh portion - Shift+Ctrl+Click, release keys & drag - press Alt (red selection area)

Move selection or clip area - 'press Spacebar without releasing mouse/pen

Show entire mesh - Shift+Ctrl+Click Background

Show only selected Polygroup (on fully visible mesh) - Shift+Ctrl+Click

Hide selected Polygroup (on fully visible mesh) - Shift+Ctrl+Click twice

Hide selected Polygroup (on partially visible mesh) - Shift+Ctrl+Click

Reverse visibility - Shift+Ctrl+Click & drag Background

Hide edge loop - with Lasso option selected, Shift+Ctrl+click on edge that crosses loop

ClipCurve add soft direction change - click Alt once

ClipCurve add sharp direction change - click Alt twice

reverse clip area - Alt (hold down)

6.9 Stencil

Stencil On - Alt+H

Hide/Show Stencil - Ctrl+H

Coin Controller – Spacebar

7 ZSpheres

Preview Adaptive Skin - A

7.1 Draw mode

Add a child ZSphere - drag ZSphere

Delete ZSphere - Alt+Click ZSphere

Add a child ZSphere at same size – Click+drag, press Shift

Add a child ZSphere and scale Link Spheres – Click+drag to size new ZSphere, press Ctrl+drag

Insert ZSphere - Click Link-Sphere

with Tool>Adaptive Skin>Use ClassicSkinning on:

Sphere Define magnet/ break mesh - Alt+Click Link-Sphere

7.2 Move mode

Move ZSphere - drag ZSphere

Pose (Natural-linked move) - drag Link-Sphere

Move Chain – Alt+drag Link-Sphere

7.3 Scale mode

Scale Zsphere - drag ZSphere

Inflate/deflate chain – Alt+drag Link-Sphere

Scale chain - drag Link-Sphere

7.4 Rotate mode

Spin chain - drag ZSphere

Control twist - Alt+drag Link-Sphere

Rotate chain - drag Link-Sphere

8 ZSketch

Activate ZSketch Edit mode - Shift+A (with a ZSphere armature in Edit mode)

Preview Unified Skin - A

9 Canvas and 2.5D

Reverse 2.5D brush effect - Alt (hold down)

Crop And Fill - Shift+Ctrl+F

Grab Texture From Document – Shift+Ctrl+G

9.1 Document Layers

Clear Layer - Ctrl+N

Fill Layer - Ctrl+F

Bake Layer – Ctrl+B

On Layer thumbnail, toggle all layers on/off - Shift+Click

Select layer on which clicked pixol resides - ~+Click canvas (US) @+Click canvas (UK)

Move layer contents up/down/sideways (X & Y)- ~+drag (US) @+drag (UK)

9.2 Markers

• Markers will only show when Edit is turned off

Remove Marker – Ctrl+M

9.3 Canvas Zoom

Actual Size - 0 [zero]

Antialiased Half Size – Ctrl+0

Zoom In – + [plus sign]

Zoom Out – - [minus sign]

10 Timeline

Place a new key frame – click on the Timeline

Select an existing key frame – click on the key frame dot

Zoom Timeline in/out – click on selected key frame dot

Move selected key frame – click+drag dot to new position (dragging off end will delete)

Store new data in existing key frame – Shift+Ctrl+click on the key frame dot

Delete a key frame – click+drag dot off the Timeline

Copy selected key frame – Shift+click on the Timeline at the point where you want the copy

Copy multiple key frames – Shift+click on all the key frames dots to be copied, then Shift+click the Timeline

at the point where you want the copies

Create Transition key frame – Ctrl+click on an existing key frame dot

Create Rigid key frame – Alt+click on an existing key frame dot

Go to Previous Camera key frame – LEFT ARROW

Go to Next Camera key frame – RIGHT ARROW

Play the Timeline (will play as a loop) – Shift+click on the Timeline cursor

Stop the Timeline playing – click Esc

Record Timeline as a Movie – Shift+Ctrl+click on the Timeline cursor

(set the cursor to the start first using the LEFT ARROW)

10.1 Movie

Snapshot to Movie– Ctrl+ Shift+! (US) Shift+Ctrl+PageUp (UK)

11 Render

Best Preview Render (BPR) – Shift+R

Render All – Shift+Ctrl+R

Cursor Selective Render – Ctrl+R

12 Custom UI and Configuration

Move item to custom interface position – Ctrl+Alt+drag (when Enable Customize is switched on)

Remove item from custom interface position – Ctrl+Alt+drag to Canvas (when Enable Customize is on)

Store Configuration File – Shift+Ctrl+I

Load User Interface Configuration File - Ctrl+L

Save User Interface Configuration File – Shift+Ctrl+Alt+I

13 ZScripts

Load ZScript – Shift+Ctrl+L

Reload ZScript – Ctrl+U

Show/Hide ZScript window – H

Attached Resources:
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Adobe Official Shortcuts Page
Windows Official Shortcuts Page
Pixologic Zbrush Official Shortcuts Page
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KOD. 2013