Students unlocking new dimensions: ZBrush for scientific illustration

In ARGD 4080: ZBrush for Scientific Illustration this spring, students are learning to integrate their digital sculptures into Cinema 4D, an industry-standard animation and modeling software program. Under the direction of our area chair for scientific illustration, Amanda Manowski, this semester marks the first time Cinema 4D has been formally taught to our scientific illustration students, allowing them to begin building a solid foundation as multimedia artists early in their careers.

These renders showcase the students’ very first assignment, in which they learned to recreate organic objects in ZBrush while becoming familiar with techniques and topics in 3D modeling, such as brush tools, topology, user interface, polypainting, and efficient sculpting workflows.