The Base-Stand

Base-Stand is quite common when displaying 3D models to place them on a virtual display stand. Take a look at some of the professional models at the Brush Central "Top Row Gallery" to see a few examples of how this works. Basically, the idea mimics that of a real small figurine or sculpture and can be made out of wood, plastic, or metal. To start off, people just make a very simple base and give it the appearance of polished wood. Go to the Tool menu and click on the largest tool icon. From the pop-up menu of all of the basic tools and 2.5D brushes, choose the Cylinder3D object. To achieve the look people want to use ZBrush's NoiseMaker function to add a wood grain to our base-stand model. In the main ZBrush interface under the Surface palette press the MaskBy-Noise button, which will generate an alpha mask of this pattern on your object?.