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Unpacking Our Toolkit ■ 9
9. After you have worked the surface of your model, you may want to smooth out some
areas and refine the surface. The Polish brushes are great tools to do this.
I like to use H_Polish because it respects hard edges very well. This allows me to be
looser and more freehand without worrying about messing up the clean edge work
I created earlier. Consider H_Polish a finishing tool. The form has to be in place for
this brush to do its job right. Use Figure 1.10 as your guide.
Polish brushes are similar to the Flatten brushes. They are the finishing tools of ZBrush. You
can smooth out surfaces with a bit more control than you can with the Smooth brush, as well
as grind areas down as though you’re using sandpaper.
Unpacking Our Toolkit
Let’s review our toolkit and make sure that you understand what is in it and what each
tool is good for. This section is the largest lecture-based section of the book. There will be
a lot of reference-style descriptions. Use this section as you would any reference book and
come back to it when you need an explanation of things like ZBrush’s Depth setting.
Move brush Our first tool; it creates the largest planes and biggest form changes.
Clay brush Blocks in areas of the model and adds “clay” to the model that you will refine
with other brushes.
Figure 1.10
Results after using
the Polish brush