Oklahoma City, OK (Mar. 19, 2008) - Digital-Tutors, a leading provider in video-based training for emerging digital artists, today announced the availability of 'Detailing Next-Gen Characters in ZBrush' - an interactive training product developed to teach artists a production-based workflow to digital sculpting and character development for use in next-generation games. 'Detailing Next-Gen Characters in ZBrush' contains over five hours of project-based training for artists learning the creative processes of character refinement and pipeline integration with ZBrush 3, the award-winning integrated modeling, texturing, and illustration environment developed by Pixologic®, which is widely used throughout feature films and games.

Popular highlights from 'Detailing Next-Gen Characters in ZBrush' include: character refinement, adding appeal for enhancement, additive sculpting techniques, subtractive sculpting techniques, UV tools and techniques, creating usable UV layouts, strategically combining UV shells, preparing geometry for sculpting, exporting geometry from Maya, importing geometry to ZBrush, appending subtools, morph targets, subdividing geometry, sculpting organic shapes, masks and deformation for detail, adding flexibility with 3D layers, stencils to add details, creating custom alphas, hard surface detailing, integrating geometry with detail, combining brushes and strokes, adding texture with alphas, exporting normal maps, using ZMapper to create normal maps, and applying normal maps in Maya.

Pricing and Availability
For a complete outline and detailed pricing information of 'Detailing Next-Gen Characters in ZBrush' visit: www.digitaltutors.com/store/product.php?productid=3461

'Detailing Next-Gen Characters in ZBrush' is also available for download at: www.digitaltutors.com/store/product.php?productid=3463

About Digital-Tutors
Digital-Tutors is an innovator and leader in video-based training for emerging digital artists. The award-winning educational solutions developed by the team of educators and industry professionals at Digital-Tutors are currently being used by students, professionals, universities, and production companies from across the globe. Artists from the world's top studios are utilizing Digital-Tutors' training solutions and services to assist in the creation of next generation feature films, commercials, video games, visual effects, and emerging media. Digital-Tutors maintains strategic relationships and partnerships with Autodesk, Softimage, Pixar, Next Limit, Side Effects, Pixologic, and Adobe in the development of the software and education materials. Learn more at www.digitaltutors.com.