A Biomechanical Character - ZBrush Creature Design: Creating Dynamic Concept Imagery for Film and Games - page 347

We will now create the clavicles (or collarbones) for the character using Shadowbox. Shadowbox is a
tool that allows you to create complex shapes by simply drawing them in front, side, and top views using the
masking brushes. It's an incredibly fast technique for making editable meshes of complex forms that would
be far more difficult to model under other circumstances. If you can sketch it, you can create 3-D geometry
of it in Shadowbox. ZBrush has several Shadowbox tools available in the Lightbox ZTool menu ( Figure
6-13 ) .
Figure 6-13: Shadowboxes are loaded via the Lightbox.
1. Open Lightbox and select Shadowbox 64. There are two Shadowbox tools here and each one will gener-
ate geometry in the resolution notes in the filename—Shadowbox 64 being the lowest res and Shadowbox
128 the highest. Since we will want to divide and detail the geometry more before the model is complete,
we will use the lowest res Shadowbox since we can then just add geometry as we need it.