Mountain Barbarian

[alfaeus]

Here's a guy and background I modeled in ZBrush. I kinda let this guy be what he wanted to be and just fiddled around with a lot of ZBrush tools. It forced me to go beyond the tutorial stuff I've been working on. I also wanted him to show his breath, like exhaling on a cold day, but it always came out looking like he was puffing a cigar. Thanks Aztec, Dickie and aminuts for some advice earlier today on this pic.

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200407/user_image-1089583836zsk.jpg

[arambarri]

Great completed image.
Congratulations.

[Frenchy Pilou]

Why not add a layer with only the freeze gaz exaling and move it in the Z axe ?
Cool fresh work :cool:
Pilou

[alfaeus]

Thanks for tip Frenchy. I'll try that and another option I've looked into which is baking the layer and then painting something akin to fog.

[alfaeus]

I slapped on some cold air that this guy is breathing. I still don't think I like it.....
http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200407/user_image-1089637524uxb.jpg

[Bloody(Magic]

I have nothing to say about it.

[angstrom]

Don't let it bug you. ;)

If the rest of the image is good enough we'll imagine the breath! :)

It's a moving, transient effect anyway. Painting it is never going to be easy. Like trying to capture motion.

Alan.

[alfaeus]

That's a great point Angstrom: "It's a moving, transient effect anyway. Painting it is never going to be easy. Like trying to capture motion" I hadn't thought of it that way! I'll have to mess around with painting motion and look up more ref. material. Thanks.

[angstrom]

Try the 20th century history of painting, alfaeus! :D A few hundred thousand plus artists have struggled with that one! The whole Italian Futurist Movement for starters! ;)

Then a bit earlier on there was another Italian, L. da Vinci, and my fellow countryman, Turner ... :D

Alan

[Frenchy Pilou]

I don't remember that Joseph Mallord William Turner has painting someone with freeze exaling breath :D
But maybe I am wrong :rolleyes:
Pilou

[angstrom]

Painting motion, Pilou. That train picture.
And atmospheric stuff, too of course.

But not breathe. Or cigar smoke. ;)

Alan.

[aminuts]

in photoshop....there is a way to get a motion blur effect....shoot....I'll have to try to remember a tute I saw on the subject.

If you want to stick with Z.....I'll have to look up the alpha number but I think it would be a good one to use on very low intensity.....

hahaha of course now I am thinking about a layer mask and using fog......hmmmmmm I gotta go experiment now.....thanks!!

[Frenchy Pilou]

http://www.collegeem.qc.ca/cemdept/francais/cnoel/chb/Images/turner-train.jpg
This one Animuts? :) :tu:
Pilou

[angstrom]

That's the one. ;)

Alan.

[alfaeus]

Thanks for the reference material and tips guys. Gives me some more stuff to try out. I figure if there isn't a good way to depict the breath then it would probably work better if the character in the picture was farther back into the foreground and hiking up the mountain side.

Any other suggestions are welcome too. Everyone I showed this to at the office made several remarks on the eyes. I wanted his eyes to stand out, but they are also a pretty intense green....