50 Ornament Trim Brush + 3DModel — VOL 08

The sixth volume of the ornament toolkit, and the one built around runs rather than single motifs. Ornament on a real object is rarely one stamp — it is a border that follows an edge, a band that wraps a column, a frame that turns four corners — and doing that by hand is where the hours go.

What you get

• ✓50 ornament alpha brushes
• ✓50 ZBrush IMM brushes, the same designs as geometry
• ✓Every alpha at 4K, 4096 x 4096, and 16 bit
• ✓3D models in OBJ and MAX
• ✓ZBrush brush and IMM files, plus PSD, PNG and TIF
• ✓JPEG previews of the whole set

The two halves answer the same problem from opposite ends. The alphas are for surfaces: drag one across a plane in ZBrush or drop it into the height channel in Substance Painter and the ornament sinks into the material. The IMM brushes are for edges: with the brush in curve mode, draw a stroke along the lip of a shield, the rim of a plinth or the spine of a scabbard and ZBrush repeats the mesh along it, at whatever spacing and scale you set, as real geometry with a real silhouette.

That second route is what makes a trim brush worth having over a plain alpha. A run drawn as geometry can be re-drawn, re-spaced and re-scaled after the fact without repainting anything, and it bakes to a low-poly version with correct shading around the corners, where a stamped alpha always flattens.

One requirement: the ZBrush brushes need ZBrush 2018 or later. The OBJ and MAX models carry the same designs into Blender, Maya, Cinema 4D or Mari for anyone working outside ZBrush.