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How to delete something in Zbrush by Dwayne Roberts

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I never thought of the many problems that modeling can be until you have them. One of those problems is deleting unwanted geometry that comes to you when sculpting. Well, in Zbrush, there is more than one way to delete geometry, and I will show you two ways you can do it. As you can see, we have this model right here that I have, and I am going to show you a problem that I have that I need to get rid of extra geometry that needs to die. So I will show you some ways you can fix this situation.  The first thing that I have learned was that a brush that just was released could help you  Fix  Unwanted Geometry. as you can see, I have a sea monster hand on this lovely model here, and I do not want the figures to look like that.    Go into your brush pallet, and pick the  Trim Dynamic Brush  ( the shortcut is, by pressing the keypad is b, t, then d). I got this result between the brush and the smooth tool (Hold down shift on the keypad). As you can see, this...

The thing that I wish That are in Maya that are in ZBrush

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The thing about my story with Maya is that I started using Maya when it was initially. It was 2004-2006. I could not even get the hang of it. It was so hard for me to get the concept of the program because it was one of the hard things that you had to use, especially when you are modeling a character. I did not learn how to use Polygons; I used nerbs. That concept alone pissed me off because when I created the surface, it looked so ugly I would fail all the time. Since then, Maya has change overwhelmingly much more than it was years ago. but I have not created a character in Maya yet (I do not want to hold my breath; I know it is coming down the line.) However, the one thing that changed from going to school then and now is learning to model. My teacher could give me a chance to learn in ZBrush to create a character instead of Maya. Yes, landscapes and accessories are good in Maya, but other than that, I love character creation in ZBrush. When using ZBrush, it is like you are using dig...