Create a comic-style render in ZBrush with a custom material

In this video, I’ll walk you through my updated ZBrush material for comic-style rendering. The new material has some small refinements and it now works quite well with polypaint so you can build all the assets for your next graphic novel in ZBrush and render them with a single BPR!

0:00 - Intro
0:05 - Brief Summary
1:16 - The updated version of Comic Style Render Material
2:24 - Selecting a Background
3:07 - Applying the Material
4:11 - Sculpting the Mesh
6:37 - Subtool dimming Effect
8:04 - Different effects of the Material
8:22 - First Shader (S1)
8:54 - Second Shader (S2)
9:46 - Third Shader (S3)
11:55 - Toon ‘cell shading’ using depth A and depth B
13:52 - Preview of the Mesh with all the details


✅ Find more about this tutorial and its resources at the ZBGs website: https://www.zbrushguides.com/tutorial...

🖼️ You can find the high-res final render with some variations here:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/o2...

📙 The original concept for this material and the comic style in ZBrush is based on a free ebook I did a few years ago and that you can download from here (it goes into the details of how it was created): https://zbrushguides.store/products/a...

🟠 If you just want to grab the material to play around with it, you can download the ZBrush Material file from this link: https://bit.ly/3ynXTha

📺 I also did a collaboration with J. Hill covering some other tips and tricks of the process of creating the final image I show at the beginning of the video:    • Creating Comic Art in Zbrush with Pab...  

Make sure you tag me on social media @Pablander when you share your comic-style renders, I’d love to see them!

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