ZBrush 4R2 Betatesting By: Geert Melis

**Etcher** · 09-20-11

"I bought a Porsche last year. Today, the new model came out and guess what... they gave it to me for free... full option and all... . How cool is that!!!!!!!!"

I was awestruck when I started working with the new ZBrush - I needed to flesh out a new Beast character for "The Thin Veil of Reality" and with all these new features at hand it was a great experience. Again, technical barriers are lifted, giving our imagination and creativity unprecedented freedom.

Betatesting Z4R2 was awesome!

Thank you so much Team Pixologic

Noisemaker Fabric Creation Walkthrough:

Here's the vid showing the workflow:

Here are the sheets showing how to create the tileable chainmail alpha:

A Great Collaboration:

For this next project, I had the honour to work closely with a very talented artist/ZBrush artist, fellow betatester and good friend Julian Kenning (ZBC name Julian_K). Not only is he a great visual artist but he is also a great composer. He was kind enough to create a piece of music especially for me to go along with the videos. I love to bring something extra to the presentation of my videos and it was great to "hear" this piece come to life while I worked on the vids. I need to thank Julian for that, and for the good advice and constructive criticism on my works.

ZBrush 4 hardsurface modeling: The weapons below where modeled entirely within ZBrush 4.
The videos below show the entire modeling process of the receiver. Follow THIS LINK to my Etcher_Sketcher thread to find new Step by Step sheets, reference sheets, alphas and a .ztl for download.