Derek Annan Sketchbook

[DerekAnnan]

Blocked out Gladiators. Started sculpting some of the weapons this week. Will post sculpts soon.

[DerekAnnan]

Sculpted gladius and applied detail as a normal map

[Nemes1S]

Nice! Was this sword done only with ZBrush? And did you use alphas for making the detail ?

[DerekAnnan]

thanks Nemes,
This is my first completed zbrush project.
The base mesh was created in Maya

I used a lot of predefined alphas from the Zbrush library for the sculpts. mostly the circle and squares. a lot of the more extensive detail was made from custom alphas that I put together. The textures where polypainted and then retouched in photoshop. After generating a normal map from the highest subd level in Zbrush the completed render was produced in Maya.

[DerekAnnan]

Some Zbrush Renders of my first gladiator

[DerekAnnan]

thanks Nemes.

Caves in too much?

should taper outward from the center of the spine?

or

just crooked?

[Nemes1S]

Maybe a little bit of smoothing would work that bad guy out.
Did you use any reference images while sculpting the mesh?
If no , then you should. There are worth useful when you want to get a clean result and right proportions, at least.
P.S. It's Nemesis, "nemesis" was already taken so I had to improvise