Feeling of detachment

[Zoid]

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads0/user_image-995774209orx.jpg
I just tried playing around with modeling a face on a 3D plane, instead of a sphere. I added the skull courtesy of Atom_Art, and I was inspired to use the eraser tool after viewing Shinzaho's clothing zscript :)

[Kathy]

I really like this so very much.

[rhom]

This is a great concept image Zoid-I like it!
Is that gold texture/material yours?I thought I remembered atom_ed referring to it.
It really captures the metal feeling.

[juandel]

WOW! that is great! what a concept!
the material is simply fantastico, Zoid and... what du you mean: you have modelled the face/mask out of a plane, kind of relief-thing and erased the remaining plane then? great job! is that eye painted? it looks fantastique! and the Atom Art Skull is another wonder all by itself... bravissimo!

- juandel

[ed_the_atom]

Ditto to Juandels comments......inspiring.

[Stacey]

I love it Zoid!

[Zoid]

Thanks for the feedback everyone,

This material is the one that I sent to ed_the_atom in exchange for the skull that he sent to me. I always wanted to have a material that looked like gold. Southern has what looks like a very good one to download on his site, but I couldn't get it to work. I figured it was some kind of Win. to Mac. problem. That's why when ed was able to get the one that I sent him to work I was very excited. The golden/bronzey tones in my material come from a warm yellowy sunset image that I made in Bryce. I imported it into the textures pallette. Then I selected the chrome looking material #5 "Reflected Map" Then in the modifiers>S1 section I clicked on the little mountain/sky image at the bottom and up comes the textures images inventory. I selected my warm sunset image that I had previously loaded and the chrome has now turned to gold/bronze.

I wanted to model onto a 3D plane to give it that embossed onto a thin sheet of metal look, then when I used the eraser tool, parts of the image behind showed through the eye holes. I had fun doing this and it gave me ideas for many more versions :)