My beta testing doodles

[michalis]

still way to go.

Indeed! for cycles, mostly.
We're just learning the nodes based UI. That's all we can do for the moment. Waiting.

[Knacki]

O.K. I meant myself but ...ja maybe also cycles

[michalis]

Long time not posting.
Not enough free time, you see. I spend most of it learning and loving latest blender builds.
The new skin modifier is incredibly good and compatible with sculptris. Far superior to Zspheres, it can join vertices (torus for instance). An excellent assist to Sculptris as you can have base meshes with holes etc.
Great new implementations to cycles as well. Here, the experimental blended box mapping. The faster way for presenting your sculptris work.
A 20 mins doodling then.

[Bas Mazur]

Nice render and material. The sculpt came out real nice

[michalis]

Hey Bas, thank you.
Nice to see you here.
Messing with blender and ZB all these days, I almost missed the simplicity and effectiveness of Sculptris.

[Serek]

Welcome back, Michalis. Where's the skin modifier, on the 2.63 Release or the beta? Any news of normal maps and Cycles?

[michalis]

Hey serek!
Please, always try one of these official latest builds.
http://builder.blender.org/download/
Skin modifier is in trunk now. It's ... in modifiers panel

[michalis]

1. Skin modifier
2. sculptris
3. Cube blended texture mapping (cycles)
4. I found this excellent tutorial on how to implement dirt in cycles. Using blender vertex painting, similarly to the zbrush technic!

300 passes, ~3 mins at 1600 px, hdri + one light.
The fastest way to render your sculpts and have a decent presentation.

[kokoro]

wow, michalis, that skin modifier is awesome ! this is a fun way to create a mesh ... and the new mapping options in blender too, very excited :-)

[michalis]

Thanks kokoro.
I didn't quite understand why I'm posting on this forum, most replays came from zb users.
But it's a sculptris-blender project. Anyway.
Here an updated version, same shading method, heavily tweaked.

[michalis]

Some work on the shader.
A more antique bronze look.

[sketchguy]

Amazing work Michalis!

Stumbled upon the thread and worked my way from the beginning.

-Steve

[Knacki]

Michalis - your renderings are always a sensation!

[michalis]

@sketchguy
@Knacki

Thank you.
I do like rendering but not more than just sculpting. It's just that I wasn't in the sculpture mood, two months now.