Artist in Action: The Venus from the Rhone River

[aurick]

This is a making-of article showing a reconstruction made by Pixologic French team member Thomas Roussel. The project was of a Venus head found deep in the Rhone River, in Arles, a city located in France and famous for its old Roman elements. Since the statue's discovery, the Arles museum has performed much research into its original appearance, from the missing parts to the coloration. (Most people don't realize this, but traditional Greek sculpture was actually painted!) Additionally, this project has been documented for a TV broadcast aired on a prime time TV show on French national television, showing elements of ZBrush to more than 3.6 million viewers!

Discover how ZBrush was used to work on the scan data of the head, rebuild the figure and finally paint it, in collaboration with the Arles museum and Eclectic Production / 2ASM.

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Be sure to also check out our many past interviews, which can be found in the ZBrush Artist Interviews forum and the User Stories page at the Pixologic website.

[Derek Frenzo]

Interesting read. Great seeing the work process video ,too.

[axisis]

Fantastic!! Classical Greek Sculpture is absolutly inspirational

[Beneto]

Great read! thanks for sharing all of this with us; it was very interesting

[klausknuth]

That's great, thank you for sharing!

I had a similar task lately, where I was asked to complete scan data. In my case the scan was missing the ears, back of the head, most of the hair and finally neck and shoulders. I was able to find the same workflow as Thomas here, which I find interesting after reading. ZBrush rocks. Thank you again aurick and Thomas. And to Ryan Kingsline for his kind advices... :-))

Best
Klaus

[kilik128]

before my mom see that's on tv ,he say what's i do is bad!Now she feel happy
so big up polysculpt.com is best place for learn Zbrush

[marianosteiner]

Now that's a great way to use zbrush. Pixologic must be proud !

cheers

[d-pan]

That was one of the most interesting articles i've seen, thanks so much for sharing the technique!

[Etcher]

Fascinating stuff, beautiful result -> look forward to seeing the print! !

[T.S.Wittelsbach]

you go Thomas....
nice to see you working...... hehe

[Ardox]

Excellent work! Forensics arts at maximun!
great details! well Done

[Frenchy Pilou]

...touch!

[Maya4fun]

Great article and nice to see some fresh work by Thomas. To finish, it's great to see some work made in Zbrush for museum.

Emmanuel.

[duhex14]

It is very splendid, having a traditional flavour for sculpture....

[jmenna]

Great stuff, Thomas. I spent a lot of years scanning and repurposing aquired data...this is very cool!