Z2 Recorded Modeling Session. ( Format: Quicktime Movie, File Size: 14MB & 25MB )

[Pixolator]

Hi :)
http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200405/user_image-1084791170aoz.jpg

This model started as a ZSphere mesh which was detailed to 1.5 million polygons. The entire session took less than couple hours and was
recorded to a ZScript. The ZScript was then cleaned and replayed while being recorded to a Quicktime movie. Hopefully, you'll find this
movie interesting :)

:b3: :b3: :b3: You may download this movie to your system by clicking here (http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/movies/zclassroom/fish.mov.zip) :b3: :b3: :b3:
Note: There are 2 versions of this movie. One is the full-length version (28 minutes runtime, ~25MB) while the other is an abridged version (15 minutes runtime, ~14MB).


-Pixolator

[cameyo]

Thank you Pix...
Please, can you post the script ?

cameyo

[Reactor]

Cool... looking forward to this, and thanks Pix for following up on a movie for us :D

[vlad74]

Thank you Pixolator. :tu: :tu: :tu: :tu: :tu: :D

[The Namek]

hmm , it's gonna take 7 hours to download :(

I'll watch it tonite then ;p

[Reactor]

Yeah... things seem a weee bit slow around here. Guess I'm either up for a 5 hour download, or to try back later.

Okay you're right. 5 hour download it is.

[BazC]

Woah! Nice fish :D Thanks for the movie Pixolator!

[Fouad B.]

ok, gentlemen.. please stop downloading..
let me download mine before...

323 b/s .... never saw that rate transfert since 1998 :D

Thx for sharing and lost your time for us, Pixolator.

Question : About cleaning the Script.

have you a magical hidden command to clean your script or is it necessary to go manually in the script to delete some part?

[Flo]

maybe you should think about using bittorrent to distribute such files in addition to the download. this way it would spread much faster...

[matvara]

Impressive modeling and design! :tu:
And thanks for the movie. I'm gonna use
getright to dl.

[Frenchy Pilou]

Maybe some mirror sites are necessary ?
Traffic seems a little blocked :D
Pilou

[Mahlikus The Black]

Totally awesome!
ZScript would have been heaven, but I am not complaining. I love taking peeks at others methods and to crack your workflow open Pix is a plus in anyway shape or form (let alone being able to have and use Z2).
Thank you 1000X over. :) :tu:

[Zeddicus]

Wow, I defnitely am looking forward to watching this some day. Bit Torrent is a good idea for sure. It was the only way I was able to watch a popular E3 game trailer recently and was a very fast download indead.

[Mahlikus The Black]

You know, an idea to Ofer or Matt. I would make a relief mirror on my site if I could only get the darn thing. Maybe sending me a copy so I can upload it..I have 10 days and like 35 gb bandwidth left...I would be happy to use it all on mirroring this vid. Would be a pleasure.
PM me..let me know.

;) :tu:

[Mentat7]

WOW! Nice image Pix!! But 3 to 4 hours to download either movie?! Gnnnnnhhh!! :eek: I think I will wait for the Reader's Digest version :D Thanks anyway oh Grand Pubah of Digital Wizardry!! :tu:

[Abyssis]

some mirror would be nice -- traffic is awfull there, my 2MB/s dsl get f***ing 2,5 kb/s :mad:

[levitateme]

Is there another link to download this from yet? i got 7 hrs and then it times out...

[sadicus]

...mother of god. (said Super Trooper style)
Thanks for the inspiration!

[aurick]

We have added a secondary download site. Hope that helps out!

[Mahlikus The Black]

Coolness.
What about the full movie though?

[Sleeperservice]

Thanks for that :) I too love seeing other peoples workflow...

Bittorrent would be a good idea I think as well.

[Cometsoft]

Wow! Pixolator, just watched the short version. That is awesome, incredible! Especially the fins. Now if I can just gain some fluency with this program.

Thanks.

[James@work]

Both videos have been impossible to grab so far. They keep showing up as completed after only 100kb or so, resulting in an incomplete archive after 30 mins or so. On a fat T1 connection to boot.

Any other alternatives?

*correction: second site is coming along much better now. Thanx!

[wierdPal]

You have to stop teasing me like this.

:tu:

[Abyssis]

ok, the shorter version was in 53 sec "down" on my hd, but bigger one is unavailable...

Great work :tu: :tu:

[Herlitz]

duh...I got a 100Mbit line and I get 1,4kb/s

[Mahlikus The Black]

Big Movie Mirror is now available.

Just FYI though, if my..no what..when my bandwidth reaches 49.5 GB ;) , I am locking the video download DIR. Just cuz I don't want to pay extra $$$. Shouldn't be a problem but like I said..just FYI
.
http://prymevalgraphics.com/ZB-Stuff/AnglerMovie_Shorter.jpg (http://prymevalgraphics.com/zbrush_modeling_video___pixolator_s_angler_fish.ht m)
*Click Tastey Morsel to Download*


Cheers!

[ghopper]

Thanks a lot - downloading now ;)

[Herlitz]

you are the king! thanks!!!

[Frenchy Pilou]

Hi MtB
You rocks at 43 kb/s :tu:
Pilou
ps
:qu: What is the meaning of FYI :qu:

[TVeyes]

Thanks Pixolator, a keeper for sure.

Thanks MTB, much appreciated :tu:

[Ctrl-Z]

FYI = For Your Information

Looking forward to studying this one. Thanks for making it available!

[Mahlikus The Black]

You are welcome yall.
My pleasure.
One of the main reasons why I bought 50gb transfer a month, assisting fellow 3D artists.

I have to say this is some very impressive stuff. Makes me look @ things in a whole new perspective. Thanks again Pix for this wonderful demonstration.

A question (as always). I am also interested in the red falloff of the model. I am guessing this is material based but it could also be lighting setup. ..I am not sure... :confused:

[Frenchy Pilou]

Well, Well...
After this demo, all naturalist of each museum should be have a Zbrush in their tools :cool: :tu: :tu: :tu:
And all sculptors too :)
And all artists :)
And everybody :cool:
Pilou
ps thx FYI of the FYI :)

[Dan R]

Excellent!

[KnightSoul]

Hey Pixolator,
I think you should do more tutorials about ZBrush, you are like a "GOD" when it come to ZBrushing... A good software to make some video tutorial is Snagit for windows... it records your screen, even your voice... I makes pretty big .avi but after that you can then compress it using any package at your disposition... As a new user, i'd like to see the way you work, but also hear your explaination....

You are the best Pixolaor!!! :tu:

Please make more tutorial!!!

Jonny

[Fouad B.]

Subtitle :

scratch! scratch! (Pen on the tablet)....pchitt (opened coca) ... klew..klew..klew..(drink a coca)...burp!(no comment) ... scratch!...scratch!..scratch!.. arff...scratch!...scratch!... damned!... scratch!...scratch!...hummm?....scratch!....scratc h!... argh! ****!...scratch!...klew..klew..klew..(coca)...scra tch!...burp!...Clic! (extracted from the subchannel audio) :D

[aurick]

The full version is now back online.

Also, thanks Mahlikus the Black :)

[Zeddicus]

It was very enlightening to see another person working in Zbrush. The PDF manual and zscripts are fantastic for learning, but eventually you get to a point where watching a video like this is really the next logical step. It lets you see all those things you've spent all that time reading about actually put into practice and how they all work together as a whole. And not only that, it's good advertising to boot, lol. Thank you for this video. Hope to see more in the future. ;)

[wierdPal]

That was a long movie. Thanks Pixolator. I am once again totally anxious to use it. Was that done while testing the Mac version in beta? :D Any hints for us? :D

[Fets]

THX...also 4 making my hungry Mac-heart bleed even more! ;) ;) ;)

[cameyo]

Thank you Pixologic...but the server of MTB is more fast ;)
Thank you MTB.

cameyo

[Frenchy Pilou]

A video is a good thing (and this one of course is :rolleyes:
But a Zscript without any doubt will be more better :cool:
The Zscript is the more pedagocic method :)
And the format can easily more visible :D
And also maybe the size :D
I am curious of that : not a factor 20?
So just 1 Mega :) (and I am sure that is very less)
Pilou

[Abyssis]

oh, Mahlikus The Black :tu: :tu:

Thank you so much, I got 155 kb/s :tu:

Very nice and kindly service for us :cool:

[Brovic]

Thank you for sharing your bandwidth Mahlikus!
You should receive some % for each licence Pixologic will sell thanks to that movie :cool: .

[Zeddicus]

I decided to try Shareaza to see if the large 25MB unabridged movie file was available on the P2P networks and it is. I then decided to set myself up as a download source and here are a couple of links you can use. One is ED2K (http://ed2k://|file|AnglerMovie_Full.zip|26324718|8d9ebba71320d8 2c57525a40636b3ba1|/) and the other is a Magnet (http://magnet:?xt=urn:bitprint:RT4RC2EOPLWWMQET7F64B6NQJM DAFJZM.R46I5DHSC4QTM6BH6J5PYQINQUNYFQ5GU6T2Y2Q&dn=AnglerMovie_Full.zip). Hopefully these will work if you have a P2P client, I'm not 100% sure what I'm doing (tried to figure out Bit Torrent too but couldn't wrap my head around it, too confusing). And hopefully Pixolator won't have a problem with me posting these alternate links. I figured the resources are there and I have some bandwidth just sitting idle, so we might as well use it, right? ;)

Edit: Hmm, seems the forum software added http:// to my links. Try copy/paste, and then remove the offending text.

[sicowan]

Starting to download.... This may take some time, obviously a lot of interest in this (and no wonder).
Look forward to following this tonight...

[LD]

I just wanted to say that I think that using Quicktime is a great way to show a session. The problem with a script is that you have to watch from start to finish and you can't back-track to re-watch a section over again. With QuickTime you can. Also, QuickTime is compatible with both PC and Macintosh.

Keep the QuickTime movies coming!

[kilik]

::next plz héhé it's great but i wan't more!
where textures :) gogogo don't stop p :)

[Atog007]

Seeing this video, i wonder something on the way pixolator work, at the last half of the video, is pixolator using a standard inflat brush or is zbrush able to paint with an alpha but without going in projection master ? something like this is possible or pixolator is just mastering very well the standar inflat tool ? looks like some time in the video he is painting multiple dot at one time but without being in projection master. hope this is possible, or will be possible one day :D

[Abyssis]

maybe am I wrong, Atog, but if you script your work, changing to PM is not visible than...
(my english is not the best, sorry)

[wierdPal]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>I just wanted to say that I think that using Quicktime is a great way to show a session. The problem with a script is that you have to watch from start to finish and you can't back-track to re-watch a section over again. With QuickTime you can. Also, QuickTime is compatible with both PC and Macintosh.

Keep the QuickTime movies coming!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I'd totally agree with that statement. Quicktime was a good choice especially if your showing movies for multiple platforms. Nothing else looks good on a Mac accept for the newer .swf flash movies, but they don't expand to well either. Real, and the MS thing perform like crap on a Mac, and you cant enjoy your video experience because if you resize it the picture never holds up. I watched this in full screen, and it was awesome. Thanks again Pixolator. :)

[Reactor]

Thanks to Mahlikus The Black for the download link (nice and fist!) and for the ability to download the entire session to my HD, since I'm not a big fan of viewing movies online ;) Very helpful.

[Cezar Souza]

Holy mother of God, watching this was amazing! :D Thanks Pixolator! And thank Mahlikus for the mirror!!! But the video left me with some doubts... as Atog007
said, at some point after the middle of the video Pixolator starts editing the mesh with a multi-point brush that seems like an alpha, while the std brush is seen selected in the bottom of the screen. Was that Projection Master at work or just plain old "ninjutsu??" :p Also, how can I get the brushes down there, bellow the canvas?? That surelly is better than having to go to the menu or docking the bar on the sides...

But anyway, amazing modelling! :tu: :tu: :tu:

EDIT: Ok, forget about those questions... I figured it out :)

[Q-qeo]

Pixolater, Why not a FTP server for the download ore upload...

[juice]

a new mirror, hope it helps a bit...AnglerMovie_Full.zip (http://digital-artist.de/pixolator/AnglerMovie_Full.zip)

[Q-qeo]

This is very nice Pixolator, but what a use of the memory, I think to upgrade to 1Gb of memory for i buy Z2 :eek: http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200405/user_image-1084913071vph.jpg

[ndog]

Finally, thanks Juice!

[Mahlikus The Black]

You are all very welcome.
Share and Share alike.

PM does not show up in the scripts...that is correct...its still doing its job but it does appear that Pix is pulling an application magic trick.

[Neoz]

Thankz MTB.. I pulled the video down in 1 minute.. Not too bad... ;)

[NeoMaestro]

Thankyou for reposting Juice, saved my sannity! Was slow going there for awile.

[jk]

Except for the eyeball I think it is all done as live modeling. You can clearly see symetrical effects going on during a lot of the medium texturing right after the first half of the movie.

Try using some focal shift and noise on your brush curve and see if that doesn't look like what he is doing.

Here is an inadequate little script showing what I mean:

PixFishtxt.zip (http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200407/user_file-1085014521cas.zip)

[rdf]

I bet this is very, very nice ... but when I try to download it, my baud rate is 0.0.

:(

[jk]

Don't worry, you are not really missing anything.

It's just a hi rez sphere where I think the effect that Pixolator gets for his texturing can be had by flattening out the brush with with focal shift and then add some noise, say around .3 or so.

A large brush with a lower resolution model just gets shaped. A higher rez model with a smaller brush shows all kinds of cool surface roughening.

I'll be putting a fish up in the Monday night challenge wherein I truly discovered that 384Meg isn't really enough ram for a 1 Meg poly fish. Still was kinda doable though.

[Jaycephus]

Thanks, Mike for the mirror. I could't get it from pixologic yesterday, but I did get it from you in a minute or so. :tu:

[nlloyd]

Hi Pix
Could you explain how you get the brush controls for (Focal Shift...pinch) at the bottom
of the screen. And thanks for the vid.

[Junk]

and please explain how you pout another sphere (eye) inside the z brush fish or projected onto it?????

[aurick]

Hi nlloyd: All you have to do is hold down the Ctrl key and drag the element to the bottom shelf. Because that shelf does not have anything in it by default, it won't be highlighted in orange right away when you drag elements around. But when you move an element to the very bottom of the screen below the canvas, the shelf will turn orange to let you know that you can place something there. Please see the Customizing ZBrush part of the Practical Guide for more information about customizing your interface.

Junk: Placing the sphere eye was done with Projection Master. I'd recommend that you view the Sword ZScript included with ZBrush. To do this, launch Projection Master and press the ? button in its panel. Then choose part 5: Projecting Mesh Displacements to learn this powerful technique.

Also, more than one person has asked how the dots were added to the mesh. This was done in 3D Edit mode. A very small brush size was used, along with fast brush strokes. The fast strokes cause the editing brush to "skip" a bit, producing a dotted effect.

[mindsculptor]

the movie file doesnt work

[Adriela]

I've followed the link listed in the first post, but I cannot locate an option to download the movie. I've watched it online, but my brain doesn't engage fast enough for me to follow every step. Is it still available for download?

Best,
Adri

[roguenroll]

view the source in the popup box and find the URL for the movie then Dl it.

[Frenchy Pilou]

...It's not so simple :)
You can make that In your navigator
Load the Movie
Click right on The Movie for the Option of Quick Time
Enable Record In Hidden memory
In your navigator : Enable Work out Connection
Menu History
Recall the page
menu File Save as / Complete Web Page :)
You have now your movie on your computer :rolleyes:
And can see it when you want in Out Connection :)
Pilou

[deadpixels]

very informative :)

[DrmzRmyne]

I watched the movie a couple of days ago and to say the least I was in awe. Excellent and inspirational.

[Adriela]

I looked, then my husband the geek looked, and we couldn't find an url. We found one for angler_Shorter and tried typing in Longer in its place, but no go. I do appreciate your help, nonetheless..

Best,
Adri

[deity]

where can I get the 28 min version of this?

[PixelKing]

Can anyone tell me where to find the full lenght version of this animation. I am very intrigued and wish to view it in all it's glory.
Thanks
PK

[aurick]

The full length one can be downloaded at

http://pixologic.com/zbrush/media_links/movies.html (http://pixologic.com/zbrush/media_links/movies.html)

[deity]

nice thanks a ton!! it wasnt there before. good to see it is now.

[PixelKing]

I have to say...THANKS!
With this aniamation alone you could learn all you need to create really great stuff with Zbrush.
In fact it is was the deciding factor for me to want to purchase this program.
Perhaps there could be one day a ZScript for it so we can learn even more.

:D :tu:

[madrenderman]

i download 28 min movie, and see many times, last time i repeat step by step that pixolator seem to do, but my result is not exactly like his wonderful work.
my fish is too low res obj to sculpt high res dectail, and some other thing are not exactly like i see.
i miss some passages, probably, then i ask if there is a link to zscript, to see exactly every step.
i try to search on this thread but i not find, someone could help me?
have a nice day.

[foreverendering]

I have some specific questions regarding this video.... I have been watching it in slow motion to see how exactly the model was created. So far I have already hit 3 instances where I'm not sure how pix did what he did.

1) 0:27 - It seems as though he is creating additional ZSpheres in the link between two ZSpheres without manually clicking on them. How is he doing that?

2) 1:18 - On several occasions I have seen him scale a ZSphere on the end of the model without having it affect its link. This is a good example. When I scale a ZSphere on the tip, for example, the entire link from the previous ZSphere expands along with it.

3) 1:28 - He is working on the ZSpheres at the tailfin and somehow "ghosts" them. Which appears to give a different look to the base geometry when you go to Preview mode. I have no idea what this is or how it was done. (?)

Thanks for any answers

[Slosh]

Hmm...of course I am 8 months late downloading this, but Pix posted it on my birthday. Would have been a nice present to watch even back then, but still just as good now. And of course, I missed the bandwidth clog...yea!

I haven't actually watched it yet, so this post is a bit premature and contains no comments on the actual movie, but coming from Pix, I have not doubt that it is going to be amazing.

[Zarg]

Is there supposed to be sound on this movie - it looks very interesting but I can't hear anything (same with the other movie) - quicktime is always so buggy om windows, is it possible to have it in another format (wmv??) please

[kasia97]

hi...i wanted to ask.how did u put the eyes without exiting edit mode and making them 'one' with the main tool

[--E--]

I am pretty sure that this movie is a zscript playback, and scripts don’t show going into or out of projection master, and that’s what he did to do the eyes, it just doesn’t show it because its a mov of a zscript

[Argyll9846]

Has this movie been removed from the Pixologic site? The links just seem to take you to their home page and the movie is noplace in sight. If anyone has an alternative address could they please post it?

[weyvin]

Has this movie been removed from the Pixologic site? The links just seem to take you to their home page and the movie is noplace in sight. If anyone has an alternative address could they please post it?

No, it hasn't moved...
Simply click/go to Education then, select "Zclassrom Tutorial" and you'll find the tutorial u're looking for "Zsphere Modeling - Ofer Alon"

[Argyll9846]

Thanks mate! I was looking for a title along the lines of Angler Fish, which is why I couldn't find it under Education.

[Angelstein]

It's on Google Video also.

Grab the full version here: http://videodownloader.net/get/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2Fvideoplay%3Fd ocid%3D6453343891721580218

[Argyll9846]

The .avi won't play in media player and the codec seems to be unknown.

[Argyll9846]

The .avi doesn't play in media player and the codec is unknown.

[Angelstein]

I swear to you it works. I have been after the full length version myself and downloaded it (The avi) via the link I posted the other night. It worked perfectly for me!?

Sorry you were unsucessful :cry:

Anyone else have prob's getting it to play?

[weyvin]

The .avi doesn't play in media player and the codec is unknown.The .avi works fine!

Perhaps u don't have the required codec to play the file...
Maybe this could help...

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm

[Angelstein]

Thanks for confirming that for me, weyvin ;)

Codecs can be a pain sometimes. If all else fails I try VLC media player.

[weyvin]

That's cool ;)

[wckedsunny]

Hey Aurick

I cannot find this movie on zbrush.com.

Please someone restore it, it is a gem of work and can teach noobs a lot.

[TheBigK]

Hey Aurick

I cannot find this movie on zbrush.com.

Please someone restore it, it is a gem of work and can teach noobs a lot.http://www.pixologic.com/zbrush/quicktime_movies/fish.mov

[slashpot]

Damn right noobs can learn a lot from this tut! I've just finished and I learned plenty, not least how good this guy is & what can be achieved by someone who knows how to use this insane tool! I'm having trouble spending time in other packages even though I know I've gotta learn them, you can get results so much quicker in 'Z'.
Thanks for putting this up, you guys don't know how much it's appreciated by so many...

Rock on!:tu::tu::tu::tu::tu::D;)

[computerpet]

I can't find this movie please help?

[snak71]

It seems that I try to download alot of the movies on the forums site and for some reason it boots me to the Zbrush3 homepage. Does anyone know why this is occuring?

Thanks.

[Aeneas]

Same here. I always get the homepage of pixologic?
edit: there's a link on the prebvous page (google movie). Despite the broken icon I could download it there.

[Moderator]

The link is back up and everyone can download again.

[computerpet]

:D Thanks I have had soo much trouble trying to get this !!! Thanks a million

[leif3d]

Cool tutorial man, thanks!!

[gendragon]

Thanks very much!:tu: :tu: :tu: :tu: :tu:

Great video!

[Lou Mareno]

Just Fantastic Work!