Pixologic, the guys behind ZBrush, have announced a new pair of tools called Lightbox and Spotlight for plugins into ZBrush4. From their release:
- What if the world was your palette and ZBrush was your Canvas?
- What if you could have instant access to billions of images?
- What if you could then use those images for reference, texturing, and sculpting?
- What if you could do this without ever leaving ZBrush?
In short, it looks like a pretty impressive combination of tools. They’ve integrated an image browser into ZBrush that draws from a huge online library of textures and graphics, and then integrated tools to allow you to use those photographs as paintable textures or reference images. The demonstration video shows dozens of examples of loading an image, aligning it in 3-space to a model, then “painting” it as a texture (either a color texture or a displacement/normal map) onto the model. Very powerful stuff.
Visit the link to see the demo video.
