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[zpetroc]

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This is a character from a tutorial I completed for 3D World magazine. It steps through my current workflow and outlines an approach that utilizes multiple meshes within ZBrush. 3D World should post the entire step-by-step tutorial on their site sometime in the near future. Hope some of you find it helpful.

later,

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[darko999]

I have the magazine here.

You da man!



Any video tutorials of yours anywhere?



:tu:

[aminuts]

very cool, thanks for the heads up, mr. petroc!

[odhinn]

Bro,
You are amazing... :tu: :tu: :tu: :tu: :tu:

[ZsurM]

Very cool Zack. Gotta ask, where'd the idea come for this guy?

Also, just finshed your Gnomon DVD & was a real eye opener packed with some great stuff. Thanks for making it.

Anyway, always fun & food for the brain to see your work, take care.

[neuroticgothguy]

very awesome concept and design, excellent detail, love the expression!

[YuraK]

Zcelangelo :D

[AgentSmith]

I saw you run through this guy at the Gnomon Workshop Weekend (last weekend), great to have seen you and your demo of your ZBrushing there!

Thanks.

Kirk

[Abyssis]

ooohman, zpetroc, it's again just awsome...:tu: :tu: Superb modeling and composition and idea:cool:
(...and look in my last thread and drop some c'n'c, ok? Thank you.

my last work: http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=30587)

[stumpf]

Hi Zack,

I like your style, it's very interesting to see that you work with a very low cage.
Are the teeth a separate piece? And render you with the Maya standard
renderer or with mentalRay?

PS: Your DVD is great stuff.

Ralf Stumpf

[gundog]

yaaarrgh, if i knew how to read, i'd get that magazine.

[Jason Belec]

I love the image with the toon outline and the other image faded into the back, it really is rather creepy. You and Geiger starting to share nightmares Zack? ;)

[1stbrother]

very cool.

[Zmith[21]]

:>hey,

awsome hands - i always struggle to get them right. maybe you can let us
know how to?! Do you use reference while sculpting them?

and the nails ... do you sculp them in z aswell?

appreciated:>

[Frenchy Pilou]

Pilou

[Moochie]

Amazing stuff. Cool to see your tut in the magazine (there's a Meats wire tut by the dude himself too). Interesting to see your advice in the mag that one should learn the insertion points of the muscles and memorize their names. I'm going to set myself to do exactly that. Thanks! :tu:

[pOiNtPuShEr]

Man, you never fail to inspire. Zack, you are far an away one of my favorite digital sculptors. Please keep up the inspiring work, and I'll be picking up a copy of the mag tomorrow if I can find it.

[deity]

great design!!!

[skello]

:tu: rock on!!

[joe_seig]

Intense image, great skill and imagination, incredible anatomy!!! Love your work. :tu: :tu: :tu: :tu: :tu:
Is the mesh setup in the facial zone animatable through displacement maps? or is it just for a non-animated still?

[Scott Spencer]

God those hands are Baroque! : D So incredibly expressive and full of tension. I like this piece a lot, there really is something disturbing to it!
Inspiring as always!

S

[Fouad B.]

as usually amazing work.

Nice sculpting, posing , imagination...
just one question Zack, are you from earth ? ;)

[Meats Meier]

Fouad -

I can answer that - no, Zack is not from this world. :)

Nice work, Zack! Beautiful as always.....


You rule.

[Mecha Hate Chimp]

Zack, congratulations on making it into the latest 3DWorld:D The tutorial is great and its really nice to get a chance to follow how amazing zbrush artists like you and Meats work. I havent peeped the video tuts on the CD but Ive been devouring your walk through in the mag. Awesome stuff!

[jantim]

What's the number of that 3DWorld magazine ? ..its alway's a bit late to arrive in the Netherlands !
Your model looks perfect-as alway's- but i still think you need exeptional anatomical skill to craft such a model from such a low-poly cage..it can't be done by most of us poor mortals !! :eek:

jantim

[industripop]

what i find outstanding about this piece, besides the obvious amazing modeling, is the thick black outline around the character. i'm very much a fan of this approach when it come to illustrative pieces. is this going to be in the magazine or just on the web? i just got a job at borders books so DISCOUNTS FOR EVERYONE!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

[chadtheartist]

Nice to see you finally post this up. :D

If you don't mind, Zack, can you post a close up of the face? Will the 3D world mag have the other images that you had at the Gnomon Workshop?

Keep on inspiring dude!

[Mecha Hate Chimp]

What's the number of that 3DWorld magazine ? ..its alway's a bit late to arrive in the Netherlands !

jantim
Jantim,
Its issue #72, the one right after the issue with the XBOX logo on the cover. We get 3DWorld late in the states as well but if you subscribe, you can usually get the mag the same week it is released in the UK. Well worth doing and youll save $ too.

[PaulAdams]

Loved the tutorial man, love the model too. One of the best 3D World tutorials. It's really great that you include the models too.

I've really got to try this technique soon.

[jantim]

Thank's for the info , Mecha Hate Chimp !...i had a subscribsion on it ,but its not a cheap magazine and i 'm not interested in all it's articles..but i'm gonne buy this one !

3dw72cover.jpg

nice cover !

jantim

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Yep they had a copy....and the Zach model is in there..could not resist ..

[Bimm the Stone]

What an amazing freak!

(I leave it up to you who I mean ;) )


great work :tu:

an inspirational piece!

[mathieu77]

Cannot get a copy of 3dworld here in Turkey.Does anyone can send me (via email) the tut by Zack? Thanks a lot in advance.

Matt

mathieuekol@yahoo.com

[kyphur]

Amazing! I have to agree with Scott, very expressive though they reminds me though of Grunevald (sp?), a germanic northern renaissance artist.

Kyph

[zpetroc]

Thanks. This was really just a good excuse to try to define the process of using multiple meshes in ZBrush. I think my next sculpt will be a turning point if I don't screw it up. I like the options this process created and the freedom it allowed.


Answering questions:

The teeth and fingernails are just sculpted into the low res mesh. Don't be afraid to make the mesh overlap itself at this stage, i.e. pulling the lips down over the teeth.
For this design sculpt, the face is not animatable per se. You could however get away with a little movement.

Regarding the "outline" around the character, it doesn't work the way I would like it to relative to the background yet, but I think this was a good failure that got me a little closer to the correct answer.

The CD that comes with the magazine should have all the step-by-step high res images and a few .ZTL files at various stages of completion.

There is a step in the tutorial that speaks directly to the hands. For me, that step illustrates the most important point of the entire article. Its all about the foundation, the gesture, the proportions, the rhythms. (same old crap I'm always talking about) They come long before any details get added to the mesh, and they are much more important. You can look at the low res poly cage, even on the second level of division, and see if the hands are going to work.

later,

[vclortho]

per se...or so to speak?

[Will]

hi Zac,

looks really great as usual

what renderer engine did you use for this ?

thks

[vivien]

modeling is top notch. love the black contour, really gives strength to the piece, makes it vibrate as you look at it. great work, waiting for more.

[skello]

WTF??? how come this piece is not yet in the featured gallery????
:confused:

[the lone deranger]

amazing stuff man- id love to see a few more angles, particularly a shot better showing the lower set of hands in fists

[3mm]

awsome ,very inspiring :)


here is the direct link of pdf:

http://www.computerarts.co.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/485232/tdw72_t_zbrush.pdf


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