ZBrush: Tips and Tricks

- [Instructor] CamView and thumbnails are two new features inside of ZBrush 2020 that provides you with better tools while you sculpt your models. So let's go ahead and bring up a model first. So I'm going to go to LightBox, and let's grab the demo head here. So right now we have the thumbnails on the top left and then the CamView on the top right. So what you can do with this little tool here is allow you to better move your model because if you move your mode like this or if you use Shift, you're going to do pretty much the same thing. But if you want to do it faster, you can actually use the CamView right here like so. So you can rotate, go upwards, and so on and so forth. So this is very useful when you're modeling with multiple items and you want to see the full view directly with this. The other thing you have in the corner here is basically the same thing, but a much faster way. So you can view the back view, the front view. You can use left and then right, top and then bottom, and use these to actually move your model very quickly. The thumbnail is basically a thumbnail, so basically gives you a silhouette view of your model. So this is very useful when you're modeling characters or if you're modeling any scenes and you want to see the silhouette of your scene to see how the shapes, how the forms are actually playing together. For some people, this tool is not really useful, so if you want to remove it, there's ways to do that. So if you go into your Preferences here and you scroll down, all the way down to Thumbnail, and CamView is right there as well, what you can do is click on Thumbnail and turn it off so like. And also what you could do when it's on, you can actually make the view a non-silhouette view or basically turn it on and off. You can also increase the size like so of your thumbnail if you want. You can change the background, and you can actually export the thumbnail. So this could be very useful if you're discussing with your art director and you want to show him the actual silhouette of your characters. So if you want to turn it off, you can do this. For the CamView, the CamView, you can actually change the actual image that is used to actually manipulate the view inside of ZBrush. So you could go back to Preferences, click on CamView. And again, you can turn it on and off here as well, like what we're doing with the thumbnails. And what you can do is click Next and get different CamViews, and there's many of 'em. You really want to select anything you want in here. But what's really cool about that, you can actually make a CamView. So if you'd like to make a CamView of your model you're working on, what you could do is click on Make CamView. And what it's going to do is basically going to take pictures of all the angles of your model, and now this is your new CamView. So this is very useful when you want to actually use your own CamViews as opposed to the ones that are default with ZBrush. So this is how you can work with CamView and thumbnails inside of ZBrush.