How to Sculpt a Stylized Female Head from Start to Finish in ZBrush

In this comprehensive tutorial, we will take you through every stage of sculpting a stylized female head using ZBrush. From starting with a sphere to creating facial features, painting, adding hair, and finally finishing with expression and details, we'll cover it all.

To create the highest level of detail, we scanned a selection of real teeth casts, allowing us to produce HD head teeth and tongue models that are incredibly realistic. The tutorial is presented in over 3 hours of real-time, narrated footage, making it easy to follow along.

What's more, having access to the source data allows you to export your own meshes at a subdivision level of your choosing, as well as create your own normal or displacement maps. The head model has been fully retopologized with clean usable topology and easy-to-select poly groups for the eyes and mouth, making it an excellent basis for another head sculpt.

Our HD models come complete with a full range of texture maps to cover all your rendering needs for both real-time and offline renders, supplied as both uncompressed TGA and compressed JPG files. The high-res ZTool file has 7 subdivision levels, with the highest being just over 50 million polygons.

To help you get started, we've included a fully functional Marmoset Toolbag scene with skin and material shaders all set up and working using the supplied 8K JPG texture maps. All renders shown are from the supplied Marmoset scene unless otherwise stated.

The data set includes:

* x Marmoset toolbag scene file with shaders and lighting setup (compatible with Marmoset Toolbag 4 only)

* x 16-bit Tertiary forms displacement map (Pores and wrinkles displacement)

* x 7 Subdivision level ZBrush tool containing the head, eyelashes, eye brows, eye balls, teeth, and tongue

* Real-time Marmoset Toolbag 4 scene used to create the renders

By following this tutorial, you'll gain a comprehensive understanding of how to sculpt a stylized female head from start to finish in ZBrush. With the source files included, you can export your own maps or use the scan as a basis for another character. The model has been cleaned and post-processed to a professional production-ready mesh with high-resolution details that will hold up even under extreme close-ups.

This HD female head scan was produced using our dedicated 120-camera head scanning rig, ensuring the highest level of accuracy and detail. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced artist, this tutorial is designed to help you achieve stunning results in ZBrush.

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