Quick Tip Tutorial: How to use Alpha for sculpting and masking in ZBrush 

Thank you so much for sharing this. your video years later still helps so many inspiring artists!

Found excatly what I was looking for! I love how succinct your explanations are.

Thank you so much for sharing this. I’ve been trying to figure out this solution for many years - and turns out to be an extremely simple solution.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! You don't know how hard it was to find help for this.. I will definitely check out your other videos. I love videos to the point! Thank you.

Great video man, clear and well explained.

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Amazing video. Thanks you so much foe dedicating for time to teach. Very grateful .

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very good tutorial :) i got a full 5 page back to back full of notes! thanks for making good tutorials with clear explanations

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Great tutorial! Exactly what I needed.

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Thanks for the tutorial. Easy to follow an made my life much easier. :D

Thanks again very clearly, didactic and good sound.

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pretty helpful,thanks alot

wow, thanks again, great quick tips

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Thanks for the video! Very informative. How high can you set ShadowBox resolution?

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i am coin mold engraver so i need much details for engraving but my scanned stl file are blur and no sharpness ,so how to given sharpness and clearty in stl file

wow match maker is lot useful i never knew about that brush....

How to export this as a normal map ti maya ?

Great info, thank you!

how do you fix the pulling from the other side of the mesh? back of the tool with impession

how do you go about getting the picture and preparing it in photoshop to use alpha so it can be used on model?

Hi when I use a rectangular image to create an ALPHA wheb I drag it on the cube it looses ita rectangular form ( the corners) and become roundish shape. Is there any correction for this?

How about actual “Stencils” those that have a coin-controller??

Thanks, i didn't know focus shift affected it so much.

How to snap the mask?

very nice

thank you very much! always such a joy when you put out zbrush tips! do you know of any techniqes to make meshes semi automatically a bit more polygonal? with this technique too i see and dynamesh/shadowbox the resulting shapes are very soft sometimes. In photoshop there's something like cutout, I thought something like claypolish would do it but i can't really figure it out. Do you have any suggestions other than manually hpolishing things, something to get one started in that direction?

thanks u

Excellent Tutorial. If you don't mind me asking, what are you using as your screen recorder to make this video?

In R7, holding Shift when dragging to create the object doesn't snap it to the view.

How can i move alpha on surface like insert mesh with space?

Thanks for the tutorial. Quick question. When I use alphas for masking, they always end up masking to the other side of the model. I can't find the setting to stop this (if there is one). I notice in your video you did not have that problem. How did you do it? Thanks!

How do you make Alphas like that ? do you have tutorial on creating those alphas ?

dynamesh refuses to match the resolution and makes it really crusty and low poly

Really nice tutorial!!! May I mention some stuff just your tutorials to look even better? 1. Try to speak with more enthusiasm (all of us are already enthusiastic about ZBrush, and also with all of you tutorial makers that help us!). Enthusiasm talking helps a lot! 2. Use some voice compressor plugin ( through Premier perhaps?). It's not too easy to follow the way your voice levels get low and high. 3. Use some music intro, even music between the times that you don't talk (overdub) 4. Try not to move the mouse point as too much and fast as you do, makes you dizzy! Check out Andrew Cramer's tuts to get what I mean! Keep up the good work! Thank you!

ZBRUSH is very complicated. You can't select your object by clicking on it. Once you draw from scratch and make polymesh 3d, you cant resize it. I spent 24+ for now and I am trying to design some jewelry. Don't blame me now if you guys are only using basic sculpting tools. It is complicated as fffff. Long live Photoshop CC logic!!!! :D:D

mike copied ya i guess