Seaside City - an experiment with that cubing thing.

[Northstarr]

Well I have been hoping to try the cubing technique so here is my experiment with it. I first drew a shape with the ordinary paint brush, fast shader and white colour. Then I played with the shape using the hook brush to pull up certain spots. Then I grabbed it and made an alpha from it. I then made the 3D cubed object. I put the tool on a really large canvas (as large as I could without stopping my computer altogether) and used the reflection gel shader material with black colour. I moved it around so that mostly only the edges showed up. I then used the glow brush with turquoise colour, a square alpha to make most of the windows, and put a few in with the reflection gel shader as well. Added the water and lighted it with a turquoise backlight and 3 other white lights. Rendered it without shadows. I had to take it into photoshop to convert to jpg and while I was there I realized I didn't like the water so I smoothed it out and it was way too big so I cropped it, and used a photoshop lighting filter to soften the sides where it was cropped off.

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1046035446gaf.jpg

:)

[boozy floozie]

Very nice :tu:

[Belleski]

Looks like the lights of the big city to me!
Really great job and great walk through of your method. :tu:

[Northstarr]

Thank you both for your comments. It was fun doing this project. Now I wonder what else can be done with this cubic skinning thing. Hmmmm.

[rhom]

There's no doubt about it.Cubic skinning is fun and I think produces some interesting results-your's is just more proof.Hope you don't mind if I stick my cubic skinner in here http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1046086632ikm.jpg
ok just one more than I'll quit I promise.
http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1046140914wuf.jpg

[Northstarr]

Hi rhom - no I don't mind a bit, the more the merrier!! :D

[Flycatcher]

Fun ain't they? :tu: :) :tu:

Perhaps we should start a new art movement - we could call it Cubizm! :D

[Northstarr]

Hey yeh, FC sounds like a plan to me... ;)

[JimMcKnew]

both awesome. Given me some ideas. Now I have to go figure out something in 155B besides cubic mapping. <g> :} Jim

[boozy floozie]

If you brought these cubic models into an app that does true isometric renders - could you not have a quick way of building up the effect of 3d pixel pix?

I couldn't 'cos I'm rubbish with cubic skinning - but it was a general question to those that do.

Oh and how you do. :tu:

By the way what is ZBrush's default perspective? I can never remember.

[Munch]

Wow these images look so cool! :eek: :tu: How do you do that? Is there a zscript on this or tutorial mabye?

[rhom]

Hey Munch-If I can remember I'll try and save one of these cubic skinner scripts next time-probably tomorrow morning-I'm off to dreamland(cubic dreamland that is)Boozie-I've taken some of these models into TSpace5.1 and rendered them with some "Dark
Tree"(Simbiont) textures and there is definitely something to what you are saying.

[boozy floozie]

rhom, look foward to seeing how these initial experiments turn out. Do post a new posting when and if you do.

[Munch]

Thanks! that would be great. I'd love to learn how to do this cubing stuff in zbrush. :cool:

[rhom]

Hey munch I just tried to make a Zscript for you showing cubic skinning but for whatever reason it is just not working-the picture in the Zscript is not centerd in on the monitor-the lines do not show-the colors do not orient properly-some of the simple native Zbrush objects are there-some aren't-some orient properly some don't-in short it is a mess-don't know what is wrong-maybe someone else with more knowledge can advise
on what the problem is.Is there something with cubic skinning and low poly objects that causes problems with Zscripting(though
I can't believe that after watching some of KenB's low poly modeling scripts)