Making an Eye in Zbrush and Rendering 

TOO FAST!? I've made a detailed written version of this tutorial along with my Eye model free to download here jhill.xyz/eye-tutorial/ Thanks to those who like the video and send me pics of what they made. Keep it up and Happy Zbrushing!

I like this guide because its pretty much straight to the point. Not a step by step, but an overview in which you've shown the final goal and then quickly taken us through your technical process. I also like the techniques you mentioned for pulling out the iris and the way you described that the lens and iris interact with light to produce the effects you captured so well. Inspiring, for sure! Keep up the good work.

Definitely the best tutorial I've seen on this subject. Great work, thank you!

For what it's worth I think you are a great teacher. You explain so much, and give us the reasoning why you do the things you do and often tell or show multiple ways in how something is affected in rl and how that look or feel can be attained. When I watch tutorials it can be really hard if you're a newbie to get all the terminology and such and I felt really comfortable and eager to learn going through your vid :) thank you so much for sharing it is really appreciated!

You just educated me in such a surprising way, i never even thought to study the eye to understand _why_ light reflects off of it the way it does, or even how light bounces off the iris. My mind has been blown. I never stopped to consider the physical shape of the iris, or how the lens affects the appearance of the iris and pupil... oh my god, sub

At last a very complete tutorial about sculpting and polypainting eyes, and a gorgeous render!!! Thanks a lot for the tips! GG

I really appreciate your anatomical explanation, it clears up all those subtle nuances.

Awesome tutorial Jay. Really learned alot from this. Nice of you to take your time and share your techniques with the rest of us. Love to see some more. Keep it up.

This honestly works for anything really such as drawing painting or more sculpting an eye

pretty cool. i watched a lot of eye tutorials, this provided the most insights. Thanks!

thank you for this tutorial, i often come back to this video on a regular basis as a good reminder. so thanks for the good work and straight forward video.

Thank you so much J hill, your tutorial is incredible :)

WOW nice and quick workflow! You re the best !

I'm pretty new with zBrush, but your explanation at the beginning gave me an idea (and understanding!)! Thank's for that!

Please keep making videos, this knowledge is indispensable for some of us.

the best eye tutorial ever! thx!

I like the pacing of this video, it's a laidback overview. Very helpful. I'm going to try this out today.

Extremely Helpful. Thanks for the hard work.

Awesome tutorial Jay, thanks so much, I'll be definitely making my own eyes soon!

This was a great tutorial, I really enjoyed it and was able to able it right away. Thank you!

Kick ass tut!! Thank you J.

Very detail and awesome tutorial! Thanks for sharing!

Very nice...the iris technique is awesome. Thanks for generously sharing with us.

Awesome work, thank you for sharing it! 😊

thank you for putting this together

Thanks Jay for this tuto. I learned a lot. Keep it up dude!

Very in-depth and cool tutorial. Thanks J.

Yep, this is a great video to show what can be done and give us the basic idea, but obviously would need to look elsewhere for a step by step guide on creating something like this, brushes used, masks etc and where to find them in zbrush. So more geared to zbrush pro's. Still an excellent video and a brilliant end result on a very convincing eyeball. Thanks for posting.

Dude you're amazing!

AWESOME! Thanks Jay, much appreciated!!!!!

OMG. This is awesome.

I like your technique when you're zbrushing the iris. Thanks for sharing.

Im really love your tutorials So useful to me thank you

dude those earings are cool

Sweet!, Nicely done Jay, Thanks man!

Thanks a lot for this tutorial. Learnt a great deal :)

Thank you. great info

this is sOoOoo freakin' helpful, man, thank you so much!

This is the first Zbrush tutorial where I felt truly compelled to praise the author! Thank you so much for making such an excellent and comprehensive tutorial! Your video truly stands out in this ocean of eye tutorials that simply paint with Radial Sym on and consider it a finished eye : D

Cool, thanks

jeez this is so awesome! thanks so much :)

Man you are a GOD :) , thanks for the Tutorial.

amazing work mate.

Awesome tutorial, it's favorited for sure!

Amazing job man!!

This is amazing, thank you! Also, dope Fight Club poster!

smashing it !!

Great Tutorial, thank you!!

Thanks man, helped a lot.

Nice one, thank you!

best tutorial, thanks!

Hey man, great video. For those complaining about it being too fast....meh. You go over your process well, and I understand it. It's not a beginners video, and people that need that can look elsewhere. Keep up the good work!

jay you're the best

Thank you so much, you're really helping out, here.

Wow! This guy must be practising and skilled a this

Amazing work! Thank you for sharing! =)

Great! I love it

amaaaazing!Thaaanks SoMuch!

thank you , very helpful tutorial

your work is epic

Awesome teaching episode Jay. I really can't wait until you get back to your fun and random character sketch stuff.

Hey J. Its me again, commenting on an old video Im improving as an 3d artist, and I thinks in 6 months (or less) I'll have some good stuff for my portfolio. And I wanna to thanks for being part of that Being a brazilian artist is tough because our currency is undervalued, but I promised myself to buy your course when I start to make some money. Keep it up with the great content and THANKS !

As always awesome work man awesome work cant wait next tutorial i hope its a weapon :D

Awesome! I need to try this on my characters

Thanks for the tutorial dude!

amazing!!!

thank you very much, i learned a lot.

very great!

Awesome!

soooooooooo helpful, thx

Thank you for making this video cuz I wouldn't be able to figure out how to achieve this myself. And for the people who don't understand the process even with the video and blog explaining pretty much every steps tho. I mean.....I'm such a newbie to ZBrush too but c'mon. Just use Google or learn all the basics beforehand. I just learnt ZBrush for like one month but I got at least 80-90% of what he said cuz he didn't use any fancy techniques here. (Yes I'm surprised too.) I didn't know about 'masking by cavity' but now I know. Sorry for babbling but my point is that I appreciate J for sharing the knowledge. It's rare to see someone of his caliber showing every little details all the way through and even went out of his way to make the written version. Not to mention that it's easier for people like me that English is not our 1st language. But to see some unappreciative people talking down and being rude to all these hard work, just because they're too lazy to learn or find simple solutions themselves. It's just uhh.......

Thank You

Great tips! 👍

so nice

Thanks. really great toturial

Very nice and well explained. Every tNice tutorialng is crystal clear and easily understandable.

thank you muchas gracias senor!

Awesome dude thank you :) !

amazing

Thanks for tutorial my question is how can i remove middle of eye without removing back of it. When i try to remove middle back of the eye gets removed too. Thanks

Great tutorial man!

Very helpful..thanks a lot.

thanks that was useful for me

absolutely fucking awesome. I love these rendering process videos. would it be too much to ask for some zmodeler tutorials? something like cyborgs, robots, or even some clothing or details that can be done with zmodeler. I think its a super awesome tool but i'm not so used to it yet. please keep making these. huge fan of your work!

Sweet!

U r amazing! Thank you!

man ur awesome .. subscribed !

super!

great thank you

great teacher

God designed the eye bro.

Very cool tutorial!! Figfht club picture too cool. Respect :)

Thank you very much.....

Good works

genius!

Very good~~

I try use Eye tutorial from Juan Carlos but his creation doesn't look soo good like Yours. Jay, you are our hero and please don't stop your work.

thank you

good!

damn. ....amazing