Alien thing.

[ambient-whisper]

just made a doodle last night. took about 1 and 1/2 hours to get to this stage. fun stuff.

( UPDATE, scroll down )
http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200307/user_image-1059233739lto.jpg

[andreseloy]

Hy ambient-whisper i just want to say that you have a very special way to get your models...are very impressive in their expression. Is possible to know how you reached that impressive folding in the thorax? I am very curiosly and intrigued how some of you reached this spectacular figures. I have maked a lot of exercise and can not get more o less a good images... I have a lot of modeled head but without body¡¡¡
Congratulations again

[Mentat7]

Cool beans :) Did you do all of it in Z? Use the beta?

[50'sKID]

Hi Martin, that's great! Wonderful control of anatomy. Let's see more of this guy! 50.

[Mahlikus The Black]

Really nice work!!
Yeah, I too would like to know if this is beta work.
You know what, I really think it is. Especially considering the mesh generation of the zif...seems cleaner. :tu: :tu: :tu:

[Kircho]

Yes AW that is the best thing about zb its really fun and quick to use and in most cases the result at the end is a surprise :)...

nice one BTW

Kircho

[DMerchen]

Thanks agin for sharing some of your work. Very nicely done! :tu:

[Ron Harris]

very kewl looking model. Alot of detail and expression of emotion in this so far. I hope you have plans to put him into a full size image. You worked quickly too to get such a fine model. I take my hat off to ya'. :tu: :cool: :tu:

[ambient-whisper]

hey guys. a bit more on this guy.
ill get back to your comments later :)

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200307/user_image-1059348902zbw.jpg

[Ron Harris]

I love the update. I hope you plan on running this guy thru texture master and dolling it up good.

[ambient-whisper]

hand update.

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200307/user_image-1059590587qil.jpg

[Mentat7]

:eek: It's a Gary Coleman from an Altnerate Universe! :eek: :D But seriously...I like the way the hands are turning out. The webbing between the fingers is particularly appealing and I am very interested in seeing what you do with those feet.

[andreseloy]

Hand update is beutiful....is possible help update?
Thanks very much and congratulations..your modeling is very realistic.

[Mahlikus The Black]

This is totaly awesome! :eek:
Thank you sooooo much for these lovely teasers! :tu:

[Ctrl-Z]

MtB:
You got me curious, so I did some testing. I don't think this is beta.

His ultra-clean mesh is just an adaptive skin with a density of 1. You can reproduce it by following the contour from his ZSphere screen capture.

From there, I imagine you'd divide the mesh where needed rather than increase adaptive skin density. But after that, it's back to however you worked best before.

I think the adaptive skinning may be more intuitive this way. More predictable; much closer to your arrangement of ZSPheres. It's almost like you're creating a low-poly unified skin...

[DeeVee]

Well done! it is always interesting to see the transformation of ZSpheres to finished model! impressive..

[Ron Harris]

love the update. This little guy has attitude :)))

[Mahlikus The Black]

Ctrl-Z, let me give you the reason behind my statement. I know about the density 1 setting. I love using it for weapons and well anything else with a hard edge. Its the way his zsphere are generating the mesh. Thats what I noticed. Also, why would he use 1.55b if his job is to beta test...doesn't make sense. There are other factors which I am not going to get into but the only real way we would know is if Ambient came in here and said so himself (I have a good feeling though).

As for you saying subbing is better then density setting...it really doesn't matter save what your end result will be. Make a fork, use density 1 and sub later...make a tree...doesn't matter if you use 1 and sub or if you use 4 first.


Finally, yeah..I could be wrong..lol. Like I said, ball is in Ambients court now.

[Ctrl-Z]

Yeah, it seemed unlikely that I had figured out something you haven't. But, rebuilding the shape based on his ZSphere screenshot did produce a very similar mesh in 1.55b.

It wasn't exact - the elbows in particular had to be handled differently, but the rest was so close, I just attributed these differences to a gap in my knowledge.

That said, it seemed to create the same number of vertices, just placed where I didn't want 'em. So, rather than adjust the ZSpheres to produce a different adaptive skin, I should have switched over to Draw mode and refined the low-res mesh by hand, as I would in a traditional polygon modeller.

It's an extra minute or two's work, but it'd give us an elegant mesh like this one without waiting for the new version.

That's all I was trying to say, really.

[PusGhetty]

Outstanding attention to detail!
You Rock!
Best Regards,
Michael