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Applying materials

Applying materials - ZBrush Tutorial

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Applying materials

- [Instructor] Here is the final version of my creature with all the color refinements. I essentially added a bunch of scratches around the horns and defined some areas around the face just a little bit better. Now that the texture is ready, let's talk about the materials. You can go ahead and click on the material thumbnail. You'll see that the material library is divided in two categories madcaps a the top and standard materials at the bottom. They are both very useful depending on what you're after. These madcaps already come with the light direction, the colors, specular, and all that. The standard materials, on the other hand, will change the properties of the surface, but also react to the light position. This will make more sense in the next video about lighting, but it's good to know at this point before we assign the materials to our sub tools. Let's go ahead and start by selecting the horns or one of them. Let's bring up the material library again. Now if we hover over any…

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