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silvaticus
02-17-08, 10:10 AM
The question is not as stupid as it may seem reading the title.
It occured to me when I was reading the Dominance War rules and brief.
I know what I can do with Zbrush and I don`t have any philosophical doubts tormenting my soul about it.
I am curious about how a Zbrush work, I mean completely done in Zbrush, would qualify technically. Let`s say I paint a background, I polypaint the colors, I model lots of tools and then "freeze" them in 2D to create a scene with lights, best render, some postwork with the 2D tools. I suppose that`s the 2.5D thing I`ve heard of sometimes. But that wouldn`t be a "model with a max 7000 tris" nor "made with any 2d package", it wouldn`t be full 3D nor 2D.
Again, I`m very happy with this wonderful program as it is (except a few buggies,okay :)) but I`m wondering if it could be useable in the aforementioned competition. Or if a Zbrush image would be called "concept art". Maybe it`s because my lack of experience, it looks to me that most of the works that fall in that category are 2D and I don`t see why a Ztool posed in front/back/lateral/etc view wouldn`t be a great concept.

If anybody had the patience of reading through this, I`m waiting for opinions.
Thanks in advance.

bicc39
02-17-08, 10:58 AM
You have entirely too much time on your hands.:D

silvaticus
02-17-08, 11:08 AM
Actually I don`t have.
I think that "wasting time" figuring out things may prevent wasting of even more time spent not knowing them. (Yeah, when I`ll be famous, in 666 years or so, they`ll write these wise words upon the entrance of an academy. Or a brothel, who knows? :))

spaceboy412
02-17-08, 11:11 AM
i'm having a difficult time understanding your point, language barrier maybe?
well regardless, one way or the other its all digital.
so zbrush is an illusion?
of course what are we? what makes a person? are we any more real than a 2d image? what is real?
to z or not to z, that is the question.

Antimorph
02-18-08, 12:33 AM
I understand what you're asking, I've read the dominance war advice for entrants.

I think that you're in 3D until you start doing "some postwork with the 2.5D tools." (and wasn't it 9000 tris)

I also feel that the contest organisers should get the chance to clarify their intent in so far as a ZB 3D goes.