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October 26, 2022

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Pablo Muñoz Gómez

Creating a Plasticine Material with ZBrush and 3D Painter

Grab a coffee, this is a long video… I’m going to cover the full process of creating a Plasticine Material for PBR workflow using ZBrush and Adobe 3D Painter. I’m also going to show you how to render in Adobe 3D Stager to complete the look of a rough plasticine model.

Some extra renders of the Frog

These are some quick variations of the frog render, just mixing some of the materials and using the 'colour overlay' technique that I showed at the end of the tutorial.

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I also use the same setup with a different mesh and a different background for these dragon:

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Smart material and detail maps

If you just want to try the material I created in this tutorial, you can download it here. The ZIP file that includes the Smart Material also comes with the alpha and Normal maps I used to create the high-frequency details.

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