years later I still use this technique. Thank you for sharing this!

Why are you so underrated? Aren't there enough environment Artists out there huh?

It's a great tutorial for me, as I am a beginner it's very hard to find a tutorial like this. I love the way you simplify the process of sculpting that any 1 can learn this very easily for their career, Thanks again for this knowledge

One of the best ZBrush tutorials I've seen

My most used brush is Trim Smooth Border :) Luckily I found it when I first started using Zbrush. I can't think of a better brush for sculpting rocks and wood. Awesome tutorial

You're the real hero here, man! keep on doing that stuff!

Wood has always been something I need to improve on greatly, and after a day of playing around with this technique, it's all finally clicking and I'm happy with the results I'm getting. Now I just need to work on the wood ends. Big thanks for this video it has helped me big time.

I love this Tim, wonderful work. Could you please do some similar tutorial but with rocks? Keep these videos coming, I love watching them!

Really nice Video, thank you so much. There is a way to get a lot of wood detail within seconds in zBrush. Try the noise modifier in the surface menue. its so amazing how quick you get a lot of wood detail. There is also a predefined wood-preset coming with zBrush, that get those whobbly circular lines which you see on planks and boards sometimes right down on your sculpt. This looks amazing!

I'm so happy that I found ur channel! Before I thought work in Zbrush for props really hard, but now I convinced that with the help of simple steps that I can create cool realistic models. I grateful to u for these tips!

Thank you so much! Working on a final project for my sculpting class and this has taught me stuff I wish I had known at the beginning of the semester.

thanks i have been pretty nervous to jump into zbrush sculpting for some reason and this was a really nice easy not overly intimidating video to follow.

Trim smooth border is useful for some awesome cracks

I found your channel recently and I just want to thank you for all this knowledge. Your videos are super useful!

I really like your videos, Tim. Please keep em up! :) Thanks for sharing this technique

Thanx you man!

Really nice video, thanks a lot for this.

Very good, I have big problem to sculpt stylized wood and make it look good. With this dou got it on the first try. Great tip, thanks.

Thank you! :)

Thanks for the tutorial. i used it about 3 years ago and find i still think its one of the best. i will say i think trim dynamic does work better for wood than trim smooth boarder, but that might just be my subjective tastes.

if you gently use the spiral brush on your grain, then flatten the lump left behind you can make some nice eyes on the wood.

You realy did not over sell this video. Just what i was looking for.

Great video Tim. Really easy to follow and understand. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you so much! The result is really awesome, very clean and organic

Thank you very much friend!!!!

Loved the video Tim. This one made my life easier. Thank you!

Could you make a video of substance painter with baking, import and export? Thank you anyway nice vlog.

Thanks a lot for this Video, Tim, these 3 steps are very easy and fast!

It was very helpful! Short and on the point. Thank you! Keep videos like these coming!

Thank you so much.

You have no idea how much you helped me!

Thank you.

Thank you man !!

These videos are fantastic Tim, keep up the good work!

So good video, simple and easy to follow! Thank you! :D

Thank you! Very usefull.

my new fav channel

absolutely great

Thanks! Very helpful lesson.

This was a huge help. Thanks!

Never knew about the Trim brush. Going to be using that for my rocks now. :)

Excellent! thanks for your time.👌

Super useful.

Awesome tutorial man! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and I love the kick ass outro beat!

thanks for this great tutoprial I will follow it when I start working with the trees I almost finishing the inorganic structures :)

Nice one Love from India 👌

Wicked tut!! Always forget there's brushes and alphas in the lightbox

Thanks for sharing your work flow

THANKS BRO!!!! NICE VIDEO

thank you very much for sharing

Hey Tim! There are very useful tips so thank you so much!

Thanks. Looks cool.

You are the best. Thanks man.

Thanks for the tips, I'd never used the Smooth border, have to try it out (always used Trim dynamic, and also the Orb cracks sometimes as an alternative to Dam standard, still pretty cool)

Great vid and great commentary! Looking forward to seeing some more :D

Nice one !!

Lovely video Tim, I've been using a similar workflow for a while now. Sometimes having some TrimDynamic instead of SmoothBorder is nice to, it produces some smoother dents, like something bumped into the wood rather then chip it off.

Great tutorial, thank You.

Thanks for sharing this,learned a lot from your work

You're amazing, thanks!

Terrific video, so glad I stumbled over your channel.

Amazing tutorial! It was a huge help 😁

I like your videos. I hope there's a lot more to come. Could you make a video in which you show various stone sculpting techniques? Cheers!

very helpful

Thank you this made sculpting less intimidating.

thanks alot bro

Great tutorial, 47!

Tim you are awesome

thanks for the video

Okay, this is epic. lol. Ill have to try that trim border, I mostly got away with trim dynamic with square alpha and a big focal shift.

These videos so far are amazing. I truly appreciate the effort you put on them, thank you!

nice techniques ♥ i love it

Hey that was pretty useful for me, thanks!

I'm ashamed of myself for discovering this now... Thanks for the tutorial!

thanks man for sharing us this information i am realy motivated i hope you make more videos

Great videos, really valuable information. Keep it up mate :)

thanks man it really helped me :) !!

Great video! Nice hitman tattoo too.

amazing!

this is great and concise. Any plans to go other other materials types like stone, or metal? I would also love to see how you went about creating your foliage too.

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Can you make a texturing and baking high poly to low poly tutorial ?

A little tip for Zbrush: If you go under the Transform menu, you can activate brush symmetry, which would make the trim edges go by much faster. If you don't care too much about variation on each side of the board this could really help as well with just quickly filling out scratches and chips on each side.

I've often wondered when one would decide to actually sculpt wooden things such as this... I mean surely one wouldn't sculpt every beam of a wooden shed or a fence as that would take a month lol.

nice

nice ty :)

Very cool technic, thanks! Can you ansver one my question? How I can decrease step in a brush? I use FreeHand type and steps inside stroke is very wide, the line is too unstable(( The mouse stroke gives an even line - I guess it's more a matter of setting up how ZBrush interacts with the stylus.

Tim, thank you so much for documenting this process... Really super helpful!!! As an aside...do you happen to train Brazillian Jiu Jitsu or some other type of grappling martial art?

I'd like to know how the lowpoly version you bake the normal map for looks like. Especially the edges... Actually the whole workflow would be interesting

Hey really nice video ! it helped me a lot ! I was wondering, do you retopology the plank after in maya ? Cause it looks like you are breaking the shape a lot or are you using decimation master to get your lowpoly asset ? I never know if I have to use retopology to get all my details when I'm baking. In the doubt I always do but if I don't need it I will really save some time ! Thanks again for the great content you add to help us ! :)

I'm using the same brush settings and strokes but my result is different? I noticed this with many other brushes. Breaks the pacing with the tutorial...

I have only just downloaded Z brush for the first time and noticed you are not using the kyboard and mouse much. What is that tablet you are using and is Z-brush better off if you use that tablet?

Hey Tim! I've loved your videos for a long time, and haven't commented on them yet. Firstly, I love all of your content, and honestly, these are so valuable to me as a soon to graduate game art student. I've learned quite a lot from you that I hope will help me get into the industry post-graduation. Anyway, I had a quick question on what you do after this sculpt. What do you do after this process? Would you export the lowest subdivision level for your low-poly and the highest subdivision for your high-poly? Then after that would you bake the high-poly detail onto the low-poly mesh in Substance?

Heya, I have this issue where whenever i subdivide a Box while turning off Smt, it gets edged faces. But with most of these videos I see, it remains clean.. Anyone know why?

Curious, you have any Mudbox tutorials? i havent looked yet but lol. if you don't....would love to see some of those. Sadly, i dont have a tablet and stylus to use Zbrush the way its ment to be so Mudbox is my thing atm.

Hello again Tim. I have a questions about Your low poly model workflow. For example - If you have high poly model like this in zbrush how You usually made low poly? by decimate/zremesh it on Zbrush, or just baking high poly information from this model to low poly rectangle made in maya 3ds max or something? I'm asking because sometimes if we have diffrents in height on high poly model ( like left and right sides on this wood) Its looks weird on low poly rectangle without additional shapes. I hope You will understand this message :D Thanks.

Hi Tim, what tablet is that because I seriously need to invest in a better one. Also love the vids, the artstation ones have helped a lot in my personal projects :)

Hello, I am a Chinese zbrush enthusiast. Can I move this video to bilibili (a website similar to youtube) and introduce these tips to Chinese audiences?

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Any tips on Hard Surface modeling techniques? I'm pretty confident with 99% organic shapes and details, but Hard Surface has been giving me a tough time.