Sauropod dinosaur...

[wvx]

ZBrush is getting fun... today I wanted to experiment with using ZBrush to actually do modeling. I started by roughing out a base cage in Silo and wanted to add the muscle detail and everything with ZBrush.

This is only about 2 hours of work total which blows my mind, I'm the first to criticize the quality but it's all for practice. I'm not so happy with the muscles overall and the front legs in particular but on the other hand you can't show too much muscle on an animal this big, lots of fat and skin, like an elephant. I suppose I'll sculpt it a few times.

http://www.vasher.com/images/uploads/proj_sauropod1_011.jpg

http://www.vasher.com/images/uploads/proj_sauropod1_010.jpg

http://www.vasher.com/images/uploads/proj_sauropod1_012.jpg

http://www.vasher.com/images/uploads/proj_sauropod1_002.jpg

[THRAWN]

A super-sauropod... and looking like it...

Keep going!

[mattybyng]

awesome sculpting

[wvx]

Thanks guys! I went back to my base mesh and wanted to add more detail so I did...

http://www.vasher.com/images/uploads/proj_sauropod1_015.jpg

Then I started over sculpting and I'm already happier with the results...

http://www.vasher.com/images/uploads/proj_sauropod1_017.jpg

I'm using the advice of sculpting at a lower level... finishing, then going up another level for the finer details and that's working really great.

[wvx]

Been working on adding more details to the base cage...

http://www.vasher.com/images/uploads/proj_sauropod1_036.jpg

http://www.vasher.com/images/uploads/proj_sauropod1_038.jpg

[Soyseitan]

Nice edgeflow, looking promising....but ehm, did sauropods have a mouth shaped like a duck? Thought only ornithopoda had this?

[wvx]

Artistic license :)

I actually did download some illustrations of this type of Sauropod which helped me place the eye and nostrils but ya... I'm not sure if I'll fix the mouth... probably will...

Ended up adding a mouth and some stand-in teeth for now, also moved the nostrils down the snout a little...

http://www.vasher.com/images/uploads/proj_sauropod1_047.jpg

Opened up the mouth last night... I have a lot of tweaking left to do though...

http://www.vasher.com/images/uploads/proj_sauropod1_072.jpg

http://www.vasher.com/images/uploads/proj_sauropod1_071.jpg