Transform intricate sculpts into posable masterpieces in just a few clicks. With Reallusion and Maxon's expertise, this revolutionary posing workflow empowers character artists and 3D print designers like never before. Effortlessly rig and pose high poly, multi-subtool characters with precision, even at millions of polygons.
CC & ZBrush Posing Roundtrip
ZBrush Character Pose Management
The Character Creator (CC) Pose Tools for ZBrush seamlessly integrates with ZBrush layers, facilitating CC’s automated rigging, posing, and real-time updates across all subtools. Alongside pose management, it allows intricate detailing of character designs at high resolutions, letting you refine poses with precision.
Rigging ZBrush characters with multiple subtools is no longer a challenge. With AccuRIG, joint positions are accurately placed, and naturalistic skin weights are applied to soft surfaces. Hard surfaces are automatically attached to the nearest bones, ensuring solid integrity. The flexibility to manually fine-tune bone placement, adjust skin weights, and modify bone attachments is readily accessible at all times.
The animation quality of a rigged character is highly dependent on the proper skin-weight assignments related to its governing bones. AccuRIG mimics the weight-paint patterns of professional riggers for natural articulation of the body joints.
With the innovative GoZ roundtrip design, artists can effortlessly refine a character's body shape while maintaining the integrity of its mesh flow and vertex count. GoZ enables the seamless reapplication of poses, eliminating the need to recreate the character rig. Online manual >
With the ability to add and interchange accessories, a single model can transform into a diverse collection of unique figures. These accessories can be quickly applied to any body part and synchronized with their counterparts using GoZ. The gallery in Character Creator serves as a centralized hub for managing a wide range of accessories across characters, enabling the attachment of weapons to the hands and the strategic placement of armor parts.
Whether elevating the cinematic presence of super heroes with flowing capes or choreographed dancers with gracefully twirling ribbons, physics simulation is imperative in creating a sense of believability. By eliminating the need for sculpting fabric wrinkles and folds, physics can establish natural cloth formations, ready for artistic refinement.
Unlock a world of unlimited poses with our thematic motion library where each frame of animation becomes a potential source for unique poses. Character Creator offers an extensive collection of free animations and poses to inspire creative choices. Additionally, ActorCore provides access to thousands of premium mocap animations and meticulously hand-keyed, stylistic motions, all thoughtfully organized into distinct categories.
Experience the unparalleled ease of creating natural poses with the renowned HumanIK editor, à la Maya and MotionBuilder. Maintain impeccable character balance while adjusting root movement or lean the body when dragging a limb. A comprehensive collection of gesture control gizmos and a gesture library are also provided, saving countless hours of meticulous finger tweaking.
Go beyond adjusting silhouettes and dive into the exquisite details of each pose, like sculpting flexed muscle and intricate wrinkles. These changes will be recorded exclusively for the current pose, without spilling into other poses.
Updating subtools while adding or switching layers in ZBrush involves significant work. However, Pose Tools can directly receive poses from Character Creator, efficiently manage the pose library, and automatically update all subtools when transitioning between poses. Finally, say goodbye to the tedious process of manual updates!
ZBrush models can be resized to match the scale conventions in Character Creator, a crucial initial step towards achieving accurate auto-rigging and posing compatibility between these two programs.
Freely traverse the subdivision levels of all subtools. Increase or decrease the subdivision levels or apply the highest or lowest subdivision level all at once.
Utilize Detail Layers to embellish character design. These overlaid effects can be applied to all poses managed by Pose Tools, providing a versatile and efficient way to enhance the character's appearance.
“Let's take efficient workflows for effortlessly posing Spider-Man. Using Pose Tools allows for storing, editing, and managing poses involving multiple subtools directly in ZBrush. Utilizing Pose Link harnesses the full power of the toolset by integrating the auto-rigging in CC.”
“Posing your ZBrush creations in CC is not only easy but also faster, with results that are easily organized using the Pose Tools pose library. With minimal preparation, your creations can achieve more, faster, and with higher quality compared to traditional manual methods.”
To make the most of ZBrush Pose Tools, start by importing existing poses from ZBrush layers. There is the option to import all layers or selectively import hidden layers. These converted layers are labeled with "ccPose_" to maintain synchronization between ZBrush layers and the pose library.
The process of updating subtools while adding or switching layers in ZBrush can be quite elaborate. On the other hand, Pose Tools offer a seamless solution by effortlessly transferring and managing poses. Moreover, it automatically refreshes subtools when necessary, streamlining the workflow.
Create new poses with just one click to enable layer recording for all subtools involved. This feature integrates ZBrush mask posing and modifications from the Transpose Master.
Enhance each pose by adding muscle and wrinkle details. These changes will be recorded exclusively for the current pose, without spilling into other poses.
Freely traverse the subdivision levels of all subtools in ZBrush. Increase or decrease the subdivision levels or apply the highest or lowest subdivision level all at once.
Utilize Detail Layers to embellish characters. These layered effects can be applied to all poses managed by ZBrush Pose Tools, providing a versatile and efficient way to enhance the character's appearance.
Serving as a macro to existing ZBrush features, Pose Tools seamlessly syncs up with ZBrush layers and their associated subtools.
To keep editing poses after project switch or program close, designers can use the refresh pose feature to retrieve poses from layers previously marked with the "ccPose_" prefix.
ZBrush Pose Link for Character Creator significantly amplifies the power of ZBrush Pose Tools, resulting in a powerful combo. When combined, the two plugins provide the following benefits:
“Let's take efficient workflows for effortlessly posing Spider-Man. Using Pose Tools allows for storing, editing, and managing poses involving multiple subtools directly in ZBrush. Utilizing Pose Link harnesses the full power of the toolset by integrating the auto-rigging in CC.”
“Posing your ZBrush creations in CC is not only easy but also faster, with results that are easily organized using the Pose Tools pose library. With minimal preparation, your creations can achieve more, faster, and with higher quality compared to traditional manual methods.”
