cave

[marcel]

:) Hi! i just come back from an holidays week, in the center of france, where there is a lot of cave with drawings and paintings, the most known being Lascaux...i'm always amazed by the similarities with 3d work: i've been in a small cave, rather confidential, where a guy has painted and carved a lionness, about 18000 years ago, on a stone having more or less a felin shape; with the moving light, the lion is always different, the color (texture) and lines engraved (bump) reacting diferently at the direction light... ok; i don't work a lot,but did a sort of magadalenian, didn't know until the end if i want him fun or not; everything is z brush, zsphere and alpha for the stone weapon.. the stone bitmap is from a real prhistoric cave, but the stones in my garden are exactly yhe same... ;) Friendly M. http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200304/user_image-1051098387ubt.jpg
http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200304/user_image-1051098432xaz.jpg

[marcel]

:) the drawings "around" http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200304/user_image-1051098522qtn.jpg

[marcel]

i have a sort of method of modelling, when i want a very controlled modelling, like anatomical drawings; usually of course i mix this method, based on mask and inflat deflat, and smooth, with zadd and zsub, but here i just use the masking procedure, and m for a little push pull; i have the script but it is very annoying (boring?), cause it's a long procedure; and more, when Mr Alon is going to release the new brush as on his sword, this script becomes obsolete!well, if somebody try: Warning: at the end of the first script, on zsphere, (it is very fast, this one)save the tool AFTER increasing the size by 100% (a whole size) in deformation palette, and in the samepalette, after pressing divide!(it's like that i use in this technic, but i didn't save this way :confused: :confused :)and let me add that playing the modelling script, i was asleep at the first third! friendly M. http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200304/user_image-1051099279iio.jpg

pattelionnezsphere.TXT (http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200305/user_file-1051099328vcs.txt)
pattelionnesculptée.TXT (http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200305/user_file-1051099379drq.txt)

[marcel]

:confused: don't know why, one is missing...pattelionnesculptée.TXT (http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200305/user_file-1051099632yoj.txt)

[+Lazarus+]

Marcel, your work style very much resembles a favourite illustrator of mine, Ron Tiner. Is there any connection between your work and his?

[marcel]

no Lazarus, i don't know him... Have you a link , where i can see his work? k you...M.

[Frenchy Pilou]

Hello Marcel
Tiens voila le père de Rahan, ce fils des âges farouches ;) Bravo ! Great realisation !
On dirait du Platon :D

Pour Ron Tiner Ici (http://www.patriceaudet.com/theillustrator.html) un illustrateur canadien en parle comme d'un de ses inspirateur !
Il donne La bibliographie du Ron :)
- Figure Drawing Without a Model (http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0715306464/patriceaudet-20)
- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Science Fiction Art Techniques (http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1561385344/patriceaudet-20)
Et là, La bio du Ron ! (http://www.papertiger.co.uk/bios/ront.html)
Pilou
Ps Toujours néanderthalien avec les "post" ? :D
Pss
et Rahan of course (http://www.rahan.org/) :D

[shserge]

Stunning work, marcel. big vitality of model.
Are head and body diffrent parts or you merged them :)?

[marciani]

Marcel ,C'est un de premiere nom que je vais chercher quand entre dans ce forum....
Bravo
(i hope no mistakes in my scholastich french)
Leo

[The Namek]

very nice image Marcel , I was wondering if you paint the eyes or do you actually use a textured sphere as eyes. Because your headmodels do have eye-sockets , but your final image never had those spheric eyes you see in all other heads. I dont really know how to describe it ...

[DLee]

Thanks for the scripts, Marcel. I didn't find them boring at all. Learned all sorts of good stuff. ~G~ Thanks.

[Evoken]

Thats so cool, i too would like to know about the eyes :eek:
::E

[PusGhetty]

*bowing and scraping* ...we're not worthy!!
You are an amazing artist Marcel. Thanks for sharing your work with us!
Best regards,
Michael

[marcel]

:)thank you ! the eyes are on spheres, put in the eyes socket; most of the time the problem with eyes is always the classical problem in drawing: all of us have a tendancy painting what we know, not what we see: eyes in real face are small, they are usually shaded by surrounding flesh, the white areas are everything execp white, and if they bright, it's a small highlight! but we look at others trough ours and theirs eyes, so often OVERPAINT them !: Friendly
M.

[s o u t h e r n]

Cool tool use. Inspirational as ever..

Glen

[Grub]

Very fine and charming work, Marcel. Your style and approach of ZBrush is first rate. :tu: :cool:

[Bobono]

Great work as ever M. He's got a bit of a "Gainsbourg" thing going on (the eyes)
deffinitly a French bloke :D :D
Greetings
BoBoNo

[artboy21]

AWEOSOME pic! i love the textures (skin, hair, fur, etc.) the eyes are really great! Even though those sketches are probably not much to alot of people, i absoluetly love them! i really enjoy seeing your sketches as well as your finished pieces. just 2 questions, in the sketches did you use a tablet? and if you did use a tablet, what kind is it?

artboy

[wenna]

This is just fantastic! It looks so real; it's as if someone is off on an adventure and discovered this cave person and asked him to pose for a pic.. I can only imagine that your trip was great!

Also, thanks for the tip about the eyes.. I've looked back at my heads, the ones with eyes and realized I have definitely sized them way too big.

[50'sKID]

Hi Marcel, Pixologic should hire you full-time as an instructor. Richard. :D Not kidding.

[DeeVee]

Well done...thanks for sharing your technology!!! :) :tu: :tu: :tu: :tu: :tu: :)

[Jaycephus]

Excellent! :tu:

Marcel,

how did you do the fur? photo-based texture on top of the warped 3D plane? Painted? It looks very real, yet it blends so well with its background. I'm guessing that it is painted in. Was it done in ZBrush?

Thanks,