Close-up Forest Photograpy

[KingSalami]

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200402/user_image-1076356138psi.jpg

[50'sKID]

Ha! That is great! I think you have achieved 'leaf perfection' there. Love the slime trail. Great pic all around. Z ya. 50.

[zerobio]

Hi King, that's a very cute little snail. But I'm transfixed by the leaf. Did you model that? How? Amazing. But the snail is very nice.

~zero

[KingSalami]

thanks

the leaf is just the leaf texture used as an Alpha and then made into a 3d object with <Make 3d> in the Alpha pallette.

Next I apply the texture and use the <Deformation> pallete to bend the leaf, then stretch it how you want.

The material depends on your leaf, shinyness etc, but the best enhancement I found was playing with the <Color Bump> to get the details to look 3d.

[froyd]

Hi KingSalami!

i saw your really beautiful work and remembered: I´ve tried to do it in almost the same way some time ago.

I cut a single leaf off my favourite plant (she is still alive! :) ), scanned it. I formed a simple leaf out of a Sphere3D, textured it and exported the textture to make a alpha to use as a bumbmap.
The texture and two of the results:

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200402/user_image-1076365818oxx.jpg

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200402/user_image-1076365850kvc.jpg

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200402/user_image-1076365908las.jpg

greetings!

[Frenchy Pilou]

A second life for a green leave :cool:
Pilou

[bicc39]

As I read this, I am starting to itch.
Does anybody have calamine lotion.
Talk about realism.

[Aztec...soljA]

Very impresive! well done! :p

[cwahl]

Great work King Salami and froyd.

I love the psychadelic snail shell.

...and as everyone has already stated, those leaves look very realistic. :tu:

[KingSalami]

awesome plant froyd

[Rhumen]

And the snail is impressive too :D !
Keep on in that way ,King! :tu: