Doodles (ZScript added Pg. 2,4,5+6)

[Bas Mazur]

Here I will place the doodles I make while exploring ZB. This was a head and something went wrong, real wrong. But I did like the shape and went on.

Doodle1.jpg

[Scott Spencer]

AHHH NIICE!

I really like this (call me twisted, well yeah I am but) This reminds me of the old 19th century etchings of birth defects and other anomolies.
really nice Bas!


S

[DarthWayne]

This image is like a test to see who's got a deranged imagination...I Passed with flying colours ! I love it!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: ;)
There's nothing quite as satisfying as a happy accident.

Wayne...

[Jason Belec]

I was watching a show the other day consisting of early medical museum and preserved works, this would fit right in with some of the exhibits of mutated births for cows, chickens, goats, people.

The ones done of human anatomy with real human parts coated in a unkown liquid that preserved them for all time were creepy beyond belief. ;)

So, great work!!

[Patton]

I love it!! Those needle looking things where the chin should be are wicked !

PATTON

[Belseth]

Looks like Ed Gein's new halloween costume. Very nice work as always.

[Ron Harris]

Kewl gross out factor with this doodle.....I am drawn to the eyes/nose then to the dripping viscera....maybe a prop from a George A. Romero film......

post some more....this is interesting work
ron
catfishmn@aol.com

[javierloredo]

Bas very nice work! I love the style!!! It has this kind of su-realism style. Your work inspires!!! Keep the good work!!

[Tartan]

Hey Bas,
Happy accidents sometimes lead to other things. Looks cool . Hmm and looks like what may have popped outta the rat after it partied to hard in the Halloween thread. /e ducks! :D :tu:

[yoogy]

Hi Bas -- :D

Bloody ****in happy accident :tu: :tu:

Surrealism at the best - great

Sometimes we must play a lill bit with the deformations :D

[Sebcesoir]

Hey Bas ;)

geeee.... impressive... frightening... Nice quality...

[Bas Mazur]

Thanks for replying. I was working on a head and testing some wrinkles in projectionmaster. With a real big brush, Zadd but with the wrong alpha the upper part of the head jumped in my direction at the z-axes, leaving the rest behind. I inflated the needles, pushed and smoothed them and went on texturing. After rendering it 3 times it was composed in Photoshop.
Here is the head before it went wrong/good.

ZBrush-Document.jpg

[P^T]

Great Bas, as always!
Seems like a francis bacon painting.
Very nice the muscolar scomposition. :tu:

[Yainderidoo]

Very Funny Bas. My first thought of the first picture was "hey someone posted an as*, but (pun) then I saw the eyes and nose and....yike....guts and....errr..."

Yainderihmmmmmm
:confused:

[Bas Mazur]

Here a new one. Tried some feathers on a head.

Doodle-2.jpg

[kyphur]

Those last two are really nice, man. I love the last one though the most. Something really exotic about it.

How'd you do the feathers?

[Jason Belec]

Now this I really like! Yeah that works Bas. ;)

[Yainderidoo]

Wow Bas that last one is beautiful!!! Absolutely stunning.

I have to give you (again) some stars.....about 5 will do for now....phew..wowww ;)

Jeen(deridoo)

[Zoetrope]

That is reall cool. Reminds me of childhood nightmares.

[Sebcesoir]

Great bas... Different style, but still great....:tu:

[MrLearner]

That birdman is great! :tu:

[Patton]

Very cool Baz, you have a great style and mood going here! Patton

[Bas Mazur]

@kyphur, here is a script how I did the feathers. For the illustration I used a scanned feather.
All others, thanks for the kind reply, I will post some more of this, I have to because I cannot stop :-)

[Scott Spencer]

Nice image. Bas I am loving these posts man. The color language you have going is awesome. That desaturated and somewhat antiqued look, I love it!

Scott

[joe_seig]

Bas I think your thread is now starting to become a museum of masterpieces...
doodles, he-heh... so can we see what a sketch looks like?) :tu:

[Drummer]

cooooool art !!
you are a real artist, my friend ! I love the piece with the man with feathers on a head ;) really cool art !
keep it up, a we want to see more and more of these masterpiece :tu: :tu:

[Bas Mazur]

Here is the head I was doodling with. When I finish it I post it in a new thread.

birdman.jpg

[Yainderidoo]

'n Eigenwijs menneke....:tu:
Nice character.

Jeen(deridoo)

[ReplicA]

Wow, Bas! I stop paying attention to anything 3D for a while, turn back around, and you impress the living crap out of me with your awesome work.

I know people are gonna get sick of seeing me say this, but I feel imagination is lacking in the 3d world. It's work like yours that's inspiring me to better use my imagination. Hopefully your ideas can inspire others to use their imagination as well.

Great work!

[Bas Mazur]

ReplicA
Sometimes I get the feeling I have to buy also more software to explore. The danger of it is loosing creativity. Give me a pencil and a paper and I do the same things like I do with software. The border between being an artist and a tech always stay. But, I've seen a lot of good traditional work from people who started with 3d, trying to learn how to use the software. Go on exploring 3d and find a way to use it. Do not use the expected results but push it in the direction the way you like it as an artist. Keep going for the best! The best work you can make is without thinking!

[kyphur]

That rocks guy, thanks for the script. That's really cool of you.

Love that last render too. Beautiful stuff man. Loving it all.

Can't wait to see more!

[deity]

pieces look great! what are you rendering in? the 3rd image you posted looks amazing!

[Bas Mazur]

Deity, the last image is a ZBrush render. I only pushed up the colors in Photoshop.
ZBrush does not work well with the colormanagment on my computer. Working in ZBrush the colors look bright and nice, but after import to photoshop they are gray and dull. I did nt find a button to choose the right colorprofile. Anyone??

[deity]

looks great for a zbrush render, the photoshop. any chance I could still the lighting setup from ya if you still have it and the material if you used one? ;)

[Bas Mazur]

Deity, that last render was just a standard lightning and the material was a sokar-skinmaterial a little changed anf fine tuned for my needs.

[aminuts]

nothing in zbrush bas, but you can start photoshop without the color management on. photoshop definitely doesn't like zbrush stuff with any colormanagement stuff I have tried to I just leave it off and only use em when I need em for something else.

[Bas Mazur]

Aminuts, mostly my work is printed and it needs colormanagement. It starts in the system with a monitorcalibration and is linked to all my programs. Also my scanner and printer are using a colorprofile. But I think you know about these things. I hope there will be an option in the new update to choose a profile. I tried to set it off, but the colors are as dull as before. Every program is using a kind of standard profile and I do not know wich one ZB is using. When using ZAppLink there is also a big difference between the colors. So when I import the ZB picture in PhS I should do it without colormanagement, after it I like to print it and I have to choose a profile to get the colors I see in my monitor, the colors are changing. The same as posting something here, I need a profile to avoid getting a reply like:'I like the picture but it was too dark and the sky was too green'. grrrr.

[Bas Mazur]

Here is an update of the head. I used a 'single-wrinkle-alpha' to make the skin. This was not a quick doodle because it took some time to get the right lights. One pass-render in ZB. Only a curve-adjustment in Photoshop.

vogelman2.ZBR.jpg

[lemonnado]

Simply incredible... You're really getting into the flow of 3d things. Dang... you raised the bar again...
Great Work!
Lemo

[kyphur]

Beautiful man... It's just impressing me more and more.

I did a search for the sokar skin shader on the forums and found some links. I downloaded the one from Dickie's Imp but it looks all messed up in my viewport with a really blown out saturation. I am I just not using it right or are there some settings you have to tweak to get it to look right because I can't even get the settings to work anywhere near what you guys have.

Rock on,

[mattybyng]

Kyphur, did you make sure you set your render from PREVIEW to BEST?

Some materials can only be viewed with their settings when the render options are set to BEST...

[alp]

WOW, this is really cool stuff :tu:

LabOrganika Forum (http://www.laborganika.com/forum/index.php)

[kyphur]

mattybyng> Yeah, I double checked that also. You can see one of my final renders with best settings in the DEZ WIP in my handle and that's AFTER tweaking. I felt like the material kinda took away from the texture but then again I also like the material. *shrugs* Oh well, it's late for me so I'm going to bed.

Rock on,

[aminuts]

I wonder bas if recording and saving actions would help ya in ps. If you are mostly having to deal with curves and they are somewhat constant everytime...perhaps saving actions then using them first will save you a bunch of time...then just some tweaking for individual pics. ?? A thought. I know what a pain in the arse it is!!:confused:

[Blaine91555]

Great :tu:

[Bas Mazur]

Aminuts, yes saving an action is the best to do. :tu:

[aminuts]

kyphur,

if using with a texture and sokar's material go to material palette and turn on multiply mode and play with the blend amount in the s1 slot to find your balance of material and texture.

[Drummer]

Bas !! really coooool character !!
I love it ! I'm waiting for other up dates :) :tu:

[Bas Mazur]

Here I doodled with the DecoBrush. I used a 'brushalpha' with variations in Z-intensity and rgb-intensity. I also worked in two layers so they cover eachother when the Z-depth grows. Using Z-sub can easy wipe out the highest color.

Decodoodle.jpg

[upham]

Excellent picture Baz! One for the top row!

ZBrush hasn't had it's fair share of exploration with natural media emulation, but I think you've just hit the nail on the head!!!

Any chance you could knock out a small script that would demonstrate this process??

Love this!

Upham :)

[Bas Mazur]

Upham, I should like to make a script but try it first. Take any alpha or that brush alpha. Set rgb-intensity what you like. Z-depth between 90 or 100. Make a sketch on the first layer. It will look flat and not interesting. Activate the second and go on. You will see you get the structure of the lines made in the first layer. Go up and down with the pixols. Keep switching between the layers. I hope this can help you on the track.
btw, you can also use different materials, but that's step 2. Render without shadows!

[Tartan]

Very Very nice technique. I can see a lot of things coming from it. The head was excellent and I love the feathers also. And as usual the doodles be a rocking man Oh well /e drags hismwacom out :)
Tartan :D :tu:

[saltapiedras]

Geniales.:tu: :tu: :tu:

[ThaoLe]

Dude.. you know zbrush so well...Great job

[Bas Mazur]

Here I did not use colors but materials, same technics like the colorful head I posted before. Have fun trying it!

Doodle4.jpg

[Bas Mazur]

Here is a script using the layers with the materials

[Drummer]

yeah Bas !!!!!

TOP ROW ! congrats, I'm happy for you :D:D
keep it up

[Zoetrope]

I know people are gonna get sick of seeing me say this, but I feel imagination is lacking in the 3d world.Indeed, while there is no lack of fantasy, it as rare to see real creativity and innovation in 3d as in any other medium. (Excepting this forum! ;) )

[Blaine91555]

Great stuff Bas - Thanks for sharing :tu:

[Moochie]

You're in a rich vein of form. Wonderfully adventurous. :tu:

[joe_seig]

Beautiful work, highest respects Bas.

You mentioned earlier:

"Sometimes I get the feeling I have to buy also more software to explore. The danger of it is loosing creativity."

In terms of losing creativity with new software, maybe an analogy would be that you would be learning to play a new (musical) instrument.
You know the music, but until you know the new instrument completely, you wouldn't be able to play freely and "without thinking",
We can't just give a flute to a child and say, "now play me a pretty song". That takes time, of course, to learn.

Your feeling to need more software to explore, well that would depend on what you would like to use it for...
Seems the software you are using now is more than enough for the imagery you are creating. Very powerful.
If you wanted to animate, then yes you would need another soft too for now, and you could learn that.
But do you want to?
If yes... you could do it.
If no...well just keep jamming on your instrument! :)

May every post be a great one Bas...

and congrats! (gefeliciteerd?)

[Yainderidoo]

and congrats! (gefeliciteerd?) Yep! Thats the way Tjitske used to say things ;)

Yainderidoo

[Strannik]

thanks for z-script :cool:

[Buckie]

Cool posts Bas, well desrved top row... :tu: :tu: :tu:

[Bas Mazur]

Thanks for the kind reply. I was surprised to see the TR, because it was a realy fast doodle. It is fun to use 3d in combination with an expressive way of working. Almost everything is possible. ZBrush is like a big egg, keeping it warm something comes out.
joe_seig, maybe you are right about the instument. With the new update that guitar gets new strings to play with. But sometimes I miss the real 3d space to work with. In ZB it's hard to setup a light with natural shadows. When I see the hairs at your Melanin dude or looking at nice sss-materials... I should like to see a 'real 3d layer' at the top of the 2.5D base with a list of objects where we could select an object to drop it in 2.5D or keep it with a displacementmap in the upper layer.

[ilusiondigital]

Hey hey Twin, at the end i can see again another Bas top row, my congrats, you are a great innovator of zb and thanks for all the wondnerfull scripts


Greetings my friend

PS: Great thread here, dude

[vlad74]

I am really happy you are on the top Maz.Good work.

[Bas Mazur]

Final image of the birdlooking man I posted here:
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?p=239464#post239464
I hope you like it.

winterbirdsmall.jpg

[Yainderidoo]

Great Bas .....nice feathering!! Love it!! *****

[Bas Mazur]

Here is another doodle after digging in the dusty holes of ZBrush. I had no intention to make a 'Meats' but playing with the SingleLayerBrush and the MorphTool I just found a better and faster way to make the wires. It is more easy now to play with alpha's and other brushes in combination with this technic. Call it the MazurWireTechnic :lol: Also a script.

EasyMeats.jpg

[Moochie]

Ooo .. cool discovery. It works really well. I'll just post a tiny pic as this is your thread .. thank you for sharing. This is easier than the original method .. fewer steps and more control. :tu:
01.jpg

[Ron Harris]

Very kewl looking Bas:tu: :tu: :tu: I downloaded the script and will take a look in a bit....Your image looks like a cross between something from an Iron Maiden album cover and Leatherface from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre....very slick....

thnx for the script..
Ron
catfishmn@aol.com

ps. Something like this intigrating the 3d anaglyph technique might prove to make a very unique image....thnx

[Bas Mazur]

Glad you like it Moochie! Here is another doodle. I made some fast lines with ZAppLink in phs. After it I used the texture. What a programm is ZBrush!!!!!

lines.jpg

[lemonnado]

Hmmmmm interesting...... There goes the evening.....

Let me see what I can come up with :cool:.

Super idea Bas !!! And thanks again for sharing!

Lemo

[Bas Mazur]

Lemonnado, just an evening... hahahaha
If you know how many time I spend to reach the dusty holes of ZBrush..., now I try to clean it up. Man what a programm!! I remember I made a full color production on a Mac SE (monochrome display), writing down the colors I used. It seems ages ago.
Ron, courious as you are, always you find the things to play with. Keep going friends!

[Ron Harris]

lol Bas....yeppers....if I dont play then I dont have fun and then I dont learn....so if a=b and b=c then a=c =Fun

Question.....I have ran this script about a dozen times now...works fine, but I dont understand after you make the morph target and it seems to suddenly swith to the Single Layer brush when you are applying the "paint".... then you hit the Create Difference Mesh....how do you switch to the Single layer brush and still remain in edit mode? I put show actions on and slowed it down to 96 but I am not understanding how you accomplished this... I am sorry, I know this is a simple thing....thnx in advance, Bas or anyone that can answer or direct me on what to do..
ron
catfishmn@aol.com

(kewl script though..and appreciated as is all of your help and works..)

[aminuts]

i haven't seen it yet Ron but my guess is he is in PM at that time? Which the actions don't show up in scripts.

[Bas Mazur]

Yes, it is Projection Master. It does not show in a script.

[Bas Mazur]

Here I used my wire technic (see last script) on a 3d-plane. Made a polymesh and painted the feathers with the Decobrush (Z-sub).

feathers2.jpg

[joe_seig]

Great feathers Bas!
You know zbrush so well, thanks for sharing so much info on how you do it.
Seems we learn more everytime you post, thanks for the clues!

[Bas Mazur]

Here is a script showing the way to make a wing with some textured feathers. A scanned feather works more nice and the wing has to be made of more feather planes. This is just showing how to do. Remind the script does not show when I go in projection master.

[Frenchy Pilou]

...of a simple ZScript ! :rolleyes:
Fractal use of Zbrush ! :D (What a prog! )
And what a teacher this Bas :tu:

wings.jpg

[froyd]

Oh my, Baz!
Thats a really incredible alternative to Meats wires with lots of possibillities.
Thanks for that great research and for sharing the results!

I´m so glad about all the people at zbc willing to share their experiences and techniques!

:tu::tu::tu:

best regards
froyd

[Bas Mazur]

we can make a parrot :D

[Bas Mazur]

Ron, here is the tutorial. I hope it's more clear this way.

BasWireTut.jpg

[kyphur]

Frickin' nice... like sharks with laser beams attached to their heads!

Seriously, nice tutorial Baz! It tis rockin.

[Buckie]

That's sweet work there Baz... :tu:

[lm]

Youre a genius, Bas. This new technique could be used for clothing as well.
A horrible demonstration of clothing in the pic below. I was in a hurry.:o:D

hatlarry.jpg

[Bas Mazur]

Im, it's not realy new but another way using the morphtool. Using this methode, you can use the 2.5 brushes and make a texture in the same time.

[smileman]

That's remind me some discover of Jules Vernes, crazy stuff Baz... and thank you for sharing!!!! :tu:

[Bas Mazur]

Im for just a hat this way is more quick :D
Naamloos-1.jpg

[Belseth]

Interesting idea. Just wish there was some way in Zbrush to build polygons on the back side to make it a closed mesh. I'm sure it'd be a tricky thing to do with displacement maps in place.

[lm]

Bas, thanks, that is a quicker way and the hat has no choice but to fit perfectly on the head it was sculpted on. Your tips and techniques are always helpful.

Your very high quality artwork as well as your prolificness are inspiring.:tu:

[Bas Mazur]

@Belseth, is this what you want?

[Bas Mazur]

An experiment with the fiberbrush, simple brush and three materials.

Doodle5.jpg

[Frenchy Pilou]

...chalk drawing or a sort of etching now ?
Pilou

[lemonnado]

My Neighbor has a red car. I think I try that on his car door!:D

:tu::tu::tu: That looks awesome Bas!
Lemo

[Moochie]

The technique is very effective. But I'm particularly taken with your choice of colours .. black, green and red is a tough combination to pull off. But succeed you have. :tu:

[darko999]

Great stuff!

Thanks for your scripts (please more :p )

:tu:

[Blaine91555]

Bas - Just found your wire tut - Lots of uses for that thanks so much:tu:

[Bas Mazur]

Glad you found it Blaine91555! :)

[Abyssis]

Bas, it's agin my cup of tea:tu: Is ZB not great piece of f!!!!n software, he?:cool:

(please, look on my last "impressionist"work too and drop some words there,ok? Thank you...)

[Bas Mazur]

I made a grouped object and imported it in ZBrush. Divided it and sculpted it. I had to keep the lowest subdivisionlevel to export with a displacementmap for animation. After sculpting there is a way to add or replace an object without loosing all the work done in ZBrush.
I hope you can use it when you need it :cool:

Groups.jpg

[marcus_civis]

That's an interesting idea. :tu: Great work, Bas.

[Bas Mazur]

Maybe a new script is coming to do this? :D

[marcus_civis]

:lol: Sorry, just fell off my chair. Not exactly; I am working on a morph target one but I need to experiment with this to see what can be added, if anything. ;)

[Bas Mazur]

Had some time for this doodle. ZB onepassrender and combined in PhS

SoftHangskin.jpg

[axl]

Wow Bas, very nice work. I love it :tu:
And thanks for all your zscript!!!

[odhinn]

Amazing...

[industripop]

this is truly beautiful work. the beauty of zbrush is the way that alpha patterns can be used to carve a figure. i've found that it's relatively easy to make just any figure look good (i said, relatively) by doing this. this is a true example of a model that not only uses them well, but uses them masterfully.

[Pride]

I really like the heads......and if I can beat Frenchyat posting, this is the
kind of dog he would own. loose.jpg

[lemonnado]

Woa Bas, you da man! Exceptional!
Lemo

[Bas Mazur]

I send him to hospital for a correction :-)

Skincorrection.jpg

[lemonnado]

THAT is a weird picture. Does a funnel belong on top of his head? Or is something about to emerge and thus the cage... Brrrrrrrrrrr people with my Fantasy should not look at pictures like this :D
Lemo

[Bas Mazur]

Did'nt you drill a hole in your skull when you were young? :lol:

[eddski]

awesome detail baz, nice modeling and texturing skillz, thanks for sharing every little bit of info.

[odhinn]

Top Row Dude, f-ing brilliant.

[Crusoe the Painter]

That's what CreateDiff does. It functions like "Subtract" operations when using Constructive Geometry in other modelers. The resulting polygon model is a closed mesh.

And BTW, that is a totally killer way to make helmets, why didn't I think of it? :)

[Blaine91555]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I've always prefered clothes pins. Easier to adjust and you can hide them under a hat.

[Frenchy Pilou]

...facility for the heads than Bilal (http://bullesdhiver.2.free.fr/bilal-stocks) :tu:

bilal-02-0800.jpg

[Tartan]

wow Bas, thats a beautiful composition. Great technique ! I would hate to be the guy with the hole in his head but damn if I havent felt that way before.:D
Thats amazing. /e downloads the script

[Bas Mazur]

:D

lol.jpg

[eddski]

haha thats awesome Bas...like the hair effects.....is that pshop?

[Frenchy Pilou]

... of the seven dwarf of Snow White ? :D

[lemonnado]

Haha, GREAT FUN! Masterful fun!
Lemo

[Abyssis]

LOL LOL Bas, this fella looks like my homeless-friend from Düsseldorf-Mitte :D

(Onetime in the week he get from me one warm-food on the "bratwurst-kiosk" :cool: )

-cheerZ-

[{OTC}Gen. Alex]

that guy with feathers kind of looks like Ganondorf from Legend of Zelda Ocarina o' time. really cool stuff you got.
:cool: :cool: :cool: smileys lol
:mad: :eek: :evil: :cool: :o :lol: :lol: :rolleyes: :cool:
:cool: :cool: :cool:

[boozy floozie]

Fine work indeed Bas and a lovely walk through of creativity since the start of thid post

[Tartan]

Its Grumpy! :D :tu:

[Bas Mazur]

I had some time to play with zb after a busy day. Just another doodle.

Meuhhh.jpg

[andreseloy]

very realistic!
Cheers my friend
Mario

[lemonnado]

Oh boy... what a day that must have been...
I'm happy I was not there :}
Lemo

[jit_gohil]

Damn, these are cool. Thanks for all the tips/tuts.:tu::tu::tu::tu::tu:

[Bas Mazur]

Maybe a WIP

Doodle059.jpg

[Tartan]

I like the renaissance feel here Bas. I know the inspiration is from a dutch artist but I cant recall which one. There were so many good ones. Rembrandt? Yah I would love to see this wip finished :) :tu:

[Bas Mazur]

You're right Tartan, I tried to do something with a painter's head. Bring it into 3d and back to a painted version. Here is a small update.

RvR.jpg

[Drummer]

great Bas friend !

very fine art ! :tu:

[Maya4fun]

Hey Bas :tu: this is really nice painting colors, can you explain alottle bit your workflow?

Await the final version. ;)

Emmanuel

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My actual Thread (http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?p=281385#post281385)

[Moochie]

The face modeling is quite excellent. :tu:

[Sebcesoir]

hhMMMM.....

Thats a very interesting rendering...

[Plakkie]

Aaah... Hollandsch Glorie! :D

Nice paint-effect, and I like the hair too. Shouldn't his nose be bigger at the and? I remember anonther self-portrait with quite a fat nose... Perhaps he had some booze... :lol:

[Jason Belec]

Very COOL Bas!!! ;)

[womball]

Ooh I love this render style! How did you do it? Any chance of a zscript.

[Frenchy Pilou]

..there is Brush !
Bravo :tu:

[Bas Mazur]

Here is another painted 2.5D head of the same object. This one is painted in two layers with a brush made from a brushstroke from Rembrandt. Using this alpha with the Deco Brush, a little Z-add in combination with a material with some cavity, there is a lot of fun to get.

painted2.jpg


here's the brush

[Frenchy Pilou]

..brush indeed! :cool:

[Bas Mazur]

Just something to test a shader and some deformations

something.jpg

[Tartan]

Nice test Bas. I really like the lighting and shader on it. Looks to me like you could use this many ways :tu:

[Plakkie]

Oeps! That doesn't look healthy! :lol: Like the image though. :tu:
May I ask about your background/education? It's very inspiring to see a fellow countryman produce such stunning images...

[Bas Mazur]

Tartan, I'm always surprised by the things we can do with ZB. Mostly I start doodling around and something comes out of it. Most of this kind of things are just a short time on my HD, after the fun I delete them.
Plakkie, my background/education, I started painting after I was born, only the academy was a short delay :-)

[Bas Mazur]

ZBrush branch, the leaves are just a plane with an alpha.

ZwarteEls.jpg

[Plakkie]

Wow, nice branch Bas, can you tell a bit more about those leaves for this Zbrush Newbee? The bark is a texture I guess? Made that yourself?
I would say: on to a fir tree! :D

[Patton]

Nice work, very Audubon!

Patton

[Jason Belec]

Beautiful and Patton is so right. ;)

[Bas Mazur]

Plakkie, here is a script how the branch was done.
Playing the script it will ask for the texturefiles.
The first to open: ZwarteElsBastText.jpg
Second: ZwarteElsBastAlpha.jpg
Last one: ZwarteElsblad.jpg

[Tartan]

Fun script Bas :) Taught me a few things:tu:

[Bas Mazur]

Lots of spiderwebs around:-) I found some time to play around with some shaders, composed in photoshop. I used about 6 renderings.

spider.jpg

[Tartan]

Hey Bas,

I like the creep aspect here. But are you sure he's a spider type? He reminds me of a race of beings thet were in ummmmmm /e tries to think. I think it was the Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. This image raises up nostalgic feelings for me ;):tu:

[Frenchy Pilou]

...maybe ;)

[Proupin]

Here I used my wire technic (see last script) on a 3d-plane. Made a polymesh and painted the feathers with the Decobrush (Z-sub).

feathers2.jpg
Great combo!; ZB is too powerful man!! :lol: wit all the recepies and stuff

[Lead Balloon]

That spider-baby-thing is top notch!

[Bas Mazur]

While waiting for ZB3 I played around with a mesh I made today, testing the edgeflow.
Can't wait to work on it in the new release but I wait (couple of months they said, couple=2 :rolleyes: I hope :confused: )

body.jpg

[Tartan]

That looks great Bas. It should be a good model to work with :):tu:

[poda]

Great stuff Mr. Mazur.

Thanks for all the mini-tutorials!

[Bas Mazur]

Still worried :confused:

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[Yainderidoo]

LOLUHHHH:tu:

[Moochie]

Hang in there Bas. There are plenty of us here every bit as anxious to see what you can do with 3 as you are! Your stuff is always so inspirational.

[Yainderidoo]

Kom op jonge......koop een "IBM compatible"......zoals ze vroeger zeiden....haha lol.....en je bent helemaal bij......meeer bierrrr.......

[Bas Mazur]

Moochie, I just made it because we asked some questions without a friendly answer. Worse, we are not allowed to ask something :confused:

[Bas Mazur]

Yanderiloo, look the subrow…

[Yainderidoo]

Yes....I did ....what do you mean? :qu:

[Bas Mazur]

Nothing there about the Z2 image

[Yainderidoo]

Aaaah.....ok...now I see....itsa shame......:rolleyes:

[Bas Mazur]

Die gasten beloven van alles en ik zit nog steeds op ZMapper te wachten, een paar maanden wachten op ZB3 kan nog jaaaren duren denk ik. Met argwaan kijk ik naar hun advies om een windowsversie te downen. Lekkere stront, of niet dan?

[Bas Mazur]

Try again, Yainderidoo, maybe now it's working

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[Bas Mazur]

btw.
We never got any answer about ZMapper.
The advice we got about ZB3: Don't ask.
So, we are stupid Mac-users.

[upham]

Bas - put your hand up and ask to be a Beta tester for the Mac ZB3! You'd be an asset to Pixologic with your skill level and enthusiasm!
Pixologic will be flat out with ZB3 updates over the next week so expect a reply within the month - (shrugs??)
You never know until you ask!

Upham :)

[Tartan]

Hmmm I agree completely with Upham. You are one of the true masters of Zbrush in my opinion. I have seen you come up with many unique approaches and solutions over the years.:tu:

[Bas Mazur]

A small doodle I started this evening. A 3 pass render combined in PhS and brushed there. Later I will make a wip of this model.

Flower.jpg

[The Namek]

Absolutely brilliant , i like the way you rendered it. Very nice ! :tu::tu:

[Polaris30]

Love the flower picture :)
Great materials and render.

[smileman]

Hey BAz , explain me more about the flower guy ! Tut ? Tut?

I'm also a MAC totally depressed by the announce of Pixo, but still I beleive that they will do something for us, and I like my Mac.... so much. But I was waiting for so long, and now the Vista, Xp PC boyz can do Zbrush3 and ZMapping !!!! That's unfair..... I remember, the first version of Zbrush for both systems came together, now this politic change a bit....

I like some big company like Blizzard ltd, always they come with both applications or games for PC and MAC.

As Zbrush is one of my favorite tool, also Cheetah 3d (like the rendering engine, "it will be a very good software this year", already have done some great render in term of quality and time spending with radiosity and all the stuff...), and many other tools in 3d , I'm really still depressed and in creation I need to put this anger and frustration to continue my creation in Zb2... that's uncool........ difficult... grrrr...arghhh



:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Yainderidoo]

Try again, Yainderidoo, maybe now it's working

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Yep.....sighhhh.....I understand completely....realy stront man :cry:
But the works you've posted are nothing but beautiful and whittey (of zoiets)

I like the Flowerguy very much......great.

Btw I would've been a Macintosh guy if not for the money...I can't afford one, so it became a PC....cheaper and more software.....mmmmmm...sorry...:confused:

Yours truly

Yainderidoo

[Tartan]

Gotta nip it in the Bud! (old Andy Griffin quote from Barney Fife) :D I like the workflow approach you used here Bas and the sketch effect.

[Bas Mazur]

There is not much to say about the workflow. Here is a little doodle just to explain.
I started with a ring and a monster. Used the snakehookbrush, changed materials and painted rgb with alpha's. After rendering I baked the layer, changed the head and painted again with rgb, zadd and zsub.
Have fun!

DoodleWorkflow.jpg

[Tartan]

hah it does look fun :)

[andreseloy]

really good and surprised with the design!
are you in PC now?:D
Andreseloy

[Bas Mazur]

really good and surprised with the design!
are you in PC now?:D
Andreseloy

Uhh, how did you know I am a member of the Peanut Club?

[Bas Mazur]

Fun, I started with a b&w sketch trying some brushes in PhS, finished it in ZB.

SchetsZB.jpg

[Tartan]

Great use of a sketch Bas. I have always liked that style of yours. There is always that hint of ther old masters about them

[Yainderidoo]

Great use of a sketch Bas. I have always liked that style of yours. There is always that hint of ther old masters about them

No better compliment then that Tartan. He's right you know Bas.....:tu:

Yainderidoo

[Bas Mazur]

Doodling around with layers. In this thread I used several layers to paint the parts. I used Zapplink to paint the background. It is great to switch between ZB and Phs! After the final render there is a lot you can do with changing colors and extra layers.
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?p=360788#post360788

violin.jpg

[Harmonic]

Wow I love that Sketch!:tu:

[Bas Mazur]

Cleaned:-)

KidWash.jpg

[calum5ZB]

lol,fantastic Baz.Really nice style ..cal

[CoryCosper]

face melting

[Tartan]

LOL Thats a good one Bas, I am sure there are a lot of parents out there that would agree :D :tu:

[Bas Mazur]

Now you know why my kids has such big ears ;)

[Frenchy Pilou]

Kids' torturer :D

[Bas Mazur]

just a mad one:-)

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[Tartan]

He has a very intent look on his face Bas. He seems froggy and about to croak :D Hmmm he looks familiar too lol :tu:

[Bas Mazur]

Yes, he looks familliar to me, waiting for Z3 ;)
It's just a test of a new head I made in C4D. Always looking for the best edgeloops.

screenshot_01.jpg

[Bas Mazur]

Another rainy day overhere, my car is broken, the dog is hungry and there's still no ZB3 for the @%&*Mac-users.
Trick.jpg

[Drummer]

hey bro, great job on the last image I like it!

[Bas Mazur]

Hey Drummer, come va? Quando mangiamo rabbit con funghi? Thanks for the reply :tu:

[Drummer]

hehehe, I don't know when man, I'm in Canada now, no rabbit con i funghi, but tons of hot dogs :D

[Yainderidoo]

Mmmmmmmmm.....where does this thread leads us....I ask....Paddo's???

Hahaha.....vooruit nog één bierke....

Yainder

[Patton]

Love it!!

Patton

[RichArt]

Looks cool Bas. :tu:

Peace,
Rich_Art. ;)

[Bas Mazur]

Test of a new head. Base model made in C4D, textured in ZB2 with postwork in PhS.

head.jpg

[andreseloy]

welcome back from your vacations!

excelent head and texture, details very carefull done:tu:
Andreseloy

[abed2007]

great, simply great work man

keep it up.

[P^T]

How long has it been since last wrote to you..
How are you?
Anyway, great works in your thread;
You have improved your modeling skills too.ù

Great Bas. :tu:

[Bas Mazur]

@ Abed, thanks

@P^T, that's a loooong time ago. I did not work with ZB2 while waiting for the update and I used my time to explore other (Mac)software like Modo. Real great. But I hope the update of ZB will come soon, I realy miss that @#program.

[Bas Mazur]

Finaly I've got some good news, I have to wait about 4,3 or 6 months to get ZB3 without the problems of Bootcamp and WindosSh%#. I will make new doodles in a new ZB3.5 thread soon (or later), IF the new promises… bla bla bla.
Oooooh can't wait…

[Frenchy Pilou]

Be Zen ;)

[Bas Mazur]

Be Zen ;)
ToBeZenForZeeBee is something for a ZenBee, but not for Mee.