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Zbrush 4R8 Beta Test : Process Breakdown with Live Booleans

Here's an explanation of how I used the new Live Boolean system in ZBrush 4R8 to craft my final model for the scientific illustrations of my deer skull. I sculpted negative, internal Boolean shapes (the pink, yellow, cyan, and green meshes) to cut away not only the large cavities of the braincase and nasal sinus, but also the super-thin fissures in between each cranial bone. Live Booleans gave me the ability to non-destructively reconstruct the INSIDES of this specimen much more quickly than would have been possible with any previous version of ZBrush.

Passing a negative Boolean cube through the model reveals the internal structures in real-time

Passing a negative Boolean cube through the model reveals the internal structures in real-time

Negative Boolean shapes used to cut through the model and separate the skull into individual bones

Negative Boolean shapes used to cut through the model and separate the skull into individual bones