Now Im having fun

[MealeaYing]

Hey! How did you know what I look like every morning before my first cup of coffee?

Another great sculpt!

HAHAHAHA!!!!!!
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I shouldn't have to tell you what you were doing last night.
But thanks!

i like these a lot, especially the second one! Cheers, David

Thanks David!
Those are the same thing actually... well the same base object, I was screwing about with using the hair tools on a dynamesh object (very fun by the way and seriously different, these tools remind me a LOT of Sculptris brushes)
Anyhow they are just different masking and hair settings..... I like the last one too but the top one is actually more interesting in a way.



And now here is Voodoo CupCake:

[MealeaYing]

The Priest made a bunch of seriously neat mechanical brushes that are available here:
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthr...-style-brushes
Thank you Priest!!!!


They inspired me to try something new and for me sort of counter intuitive, this took less than 1/2 hour, its low rez but I can make it at MUCH higher rez and the details would be more crisp.
I did not use The Priest's brushes in this but was simply inspired to see if I could make my own based on what his look like.
Now I can do this:

[michalis]

And a pre colombian art came from this experiment.
Goood!
A little texture painting and a jungle foliage around.

[chalkman]

These are looking good! As michalis said ..... All you need is a jungle and them borrow a beast or two from spirit dreamer, you are in business!

Cheers, David

[KC-Production]

Wow! These last ones are really great!
Pretty interesting style, people will remember that mate!
Cheers and best regards,
Kenny

[MealeaYing]

@Michalis:
Thanks!
That was part of the idea with this, and your idea of Jungle stuff is a good one, I know how I can do that too I think... Im going to start need to dig into Blender again very very soon.
GRIN!!!!

@David:
Thanks!
That gives me some neat ideas... Pre-Colombian and mechanical.
I think Im going to make a tutorial for this stuff its amazingly easy...
Its also good for 2.5D and I will have a quickie example of that up in a moment.

@Kenny:
Thank you very much!


Ok... here some more, this stuff is amazingly easy to do and I will try to make a sort of tutorial on it soon:






And a fuzzy thing:

[chalkman]

Wow mealea! I especially love the hard edge mesh insert work... Really awesome! Looking forward to the tutorials! Cheers, David

[MealeaYing]

Wow mealea! I especially love the hard edge mesh insert work... Really awesome! Looking forward to the tutorials! Cheers, David

hehehe! thanks!
Personally I like the fuzzy stuff, but thats me.
That big one was 18.434 million polygons, my computer didn't like it much!
The tutorial is going to be in two bits I think.
The first bit will be text describing step by step how to do this stuff (its seriously easy).
the second bit will be a video, hopefully with music, that is actually very hard for some stupid reason.
I had a little free video editor on my old Macintosh IIFX that could fit quicktime movies to sound under system 7, this crap with that being this hard to do now irritates me to no end.

Anyhow heres another one of these thingys, they are rather fun to make!

[MealeaYing]

This is very cool:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16907104

[MealeaYing]

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[chalkman]

Hi Mealea, Cool new work, I especially love the ones that look like Art Deco paper weights! cheers, David

[bio-designer]

Hi Mealea

Just been looking at this thread and i really love the stuff with Fiber Mesh, but most of all i like the mechanical hard edged thing with legs, very nice indeed...

Was this done with ShadowBox or some other procedure ?

J

[MealeaYing]

Hi Mealea, Cool new work, I especially love the ones that look like Art Deco paper weights! cheers, David

hehehe!!!
Thanks David!
I like those too, I had a lot of fun making them. They are the result of another thread (which I'm annoyed to say I lost) where someone was trying to use curve tube brushes to make vines.
It didn't work, but at least I learned how to make those little thingys!

Hi Mealea

Just been looking at this thread and i really love the stuff with Fiber Mesh, but most of all i like the mechanical hard edged thing with legs, very nice indeed...

Was this done with ShadowBox or some other procedure ?

J

WOW!
You like my stuff?? NEAT!
I love yours!
I did not use Shadow Box at all (I have never had any luck with it, it crashes me constantly). After seeing what you do with Shadow Box I spent a few weeks restarting ZBrush and being frustrated.
Mostly I used the mesh insert brushes, the Inflate slider in the deformation pallet (with masking) and a little bit of the transpose tools (and a bit of masking), specifically move as the others do totally random stuff.
Also I had symmetry turned on using radial at various levels like 4 and 8 if I remember correctly.
I'm going to draw up a couple of tutorials for making things like that one a step by step in text and the other a video, its just taking a while as the new ZBrush is not behaving on my computer and is nearly impossible to keep running.



Cheers and thanks you guys!
Mealea

[MealeaYing]

Heres some more of that stuff from above....
The first tutorial for this is going slowly due to random problems introduced by 4r2b but I'm getting the hang of not using some things (like the frame button) so it should be along soon.

[chalkman]

Wow ... I love these Mealea! The first two look like some steampunk Coat of Arms! All the best, David