Coloring for comics with Zbrush

[cannedmushrooms]

Ok step away from your 3d world for a few and check out this tutorial
Hand Inked
before.jpg

Zbrush For Shadows
after.jpg

After a few Minutes
moreafter.jpg

http://www.jasonwelsh.com/trainvideos/comic%20tutorial.wmv

If you get a chance and you get bored check out the rest of the site also;)

heres the codec incase you need it

http://www.techsmith.com/download/codecs.asp

[citizeneman]

goto http://www.google.com and type "Human Anatomy" :lol:

[Frenchy Pilou]

Have happy Zbrushing :cool:

[wckedsunny]

Well you can give it more depth , and use lots of brushes like highlight,intesnsity etc to make it better.

Keep it up :D

[cannedmushrooms]

O ya I forgot to put the

WIP


sign up

[jbakutis]

This is for the guy who suggested you go to Google, and search human anatomy. First of all.. IT'S NOT HUMAN!, and secondly, go easy. It's obviously a stylized piece, and ... aah forget it....
I appreciate when anyone shares their work and input, so thanks to the maker of reptilian creature...

[cannedmushrooms]

I saw his 1 post and just thought to myself, Ya school was out for the summer.
Negativity just feeds me it doesnt make me weaker;)

[citizeneman]

Well, the character obviously has human traits, learning the human figure can help exponentially in character design. I checked out you're site and you're other works depicting humans, vampires, they are suffering from the same thing.

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[cannedmushrooms]

I think I would have been more offended if you liked my style

[Ron Harris]

good start on your creature. My scans are never clean enough to really do this type of work. I end up with way too many artifacts on the scan. How did you get around this with your hand inked pic you started with? thnx
ron

ps. Anatomy...hmmmm ...guess we better let the Jimmy Neutron makers and The Southpark gang in on that ..lol....;)

[wckedsunny]

Ron

The scan will never be clean.

use levels in photoshop to make them crisp balck and white with contrasting looks ;)

[cannedmushrooms]

Scan you image at 600dpi
Save this file as master
Drop the Resolution to 100dpi and the document size to somthing huge I always use 33inchs in height and keep the constraint proportions on so it will auto figure width
Do a slight gausian blur on the document
Save your document as somthing else (that way you keep your original art)
Now you will need Illustrator cs2 to open the document
once open click on the image and on the title bar choose Live Trace
Walla Smooth Lines
You can also choose from several built in styles of trace
Once done you can export as PSD and it will save your document back to the 300 dpi mark

This trick works great with zbrush also with Meat's wire frame style cause you can make your black and white masks near vector so you dont get nodes on the edges

Before Live trace
before-live-trace.jpg

After live trace
after-live-trace.jpg

[cannedmushrooms]

Heres the finished print with the method I used
lagoon_HR_zbrush.jpg


And the shadow layer
lagoon_shadow.jpg

[BonkersS]

I thought I had found the answer to my scanning problems, but you use Illustrator which I don't have. I really like the image of the werewolf and the shadow map of the creature and the corpse. Thanks for the info.

[wckedsunny]

Man now thats looking awesome.

Which material you used for the background ? its looking very toonish

Great going

[cannedmushrooms]

its a cross between 5 colors smeared and gausian blurred in photoshop