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[Cush]

Ok so I decided I need to do something more challenging so my latest venture is to model and detail an african elephant. That means all the wrinkles and cracks, which is a lot!

This is the head so far. Taken me a while to model as I know very little about elephants and have to refer to a lot of photos. I need to fix the ngons on the ears before I can carry on otherwise Zbrush will screw it up.

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[Cush]

Ok so I've brought him into Zbrush and started detailing. I have a feeling I could be at this for a while :)

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[Cush]

Ok so the trunk is finally finished. Took me just over an hour. The other thing is I dont like the camera settings in zbrush it seems to change the perspective a bit. Is there any way to change this?

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[Cush]

Just a quick head update. Done under the chin too.

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[SolidSnakexxx]

Really nice elephant. I'm sure it will turn out to be another amazing one as I can see some fine wringles you are putting on him. :tu: :tu:

[Kaiju Valley Kid]

Excellent work so far - looking forward to seeing more! Refreshing to see a natural history subject on the forum.

Re: the slighty odd flattened perspective in ZBrush - nope, there's no way to change it. I find it worthwhile to export my model in my 3D packages' perspective view occasionally just to check that everything is going to plan.

[Cush]

cheers guys. I'll try and get it done this coming week. Haven't really touched it for two days as had things to do. Started refining the body a bit, but I'm scared because there is so much to do. Might have to alpha map it all to save time. Looks a bit like super sculpy at the moment :p

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[Cush]

had a crack at the body today. This is what I have at the moment. Rendered in C4D with basic material and lighting

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[Cush]

Just a quick update

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[abe_Tamazir]

nice start...keep the good work..one crit maybe for now: i found the eyes a bit too big to be realistic..