ZBrush 4R2 Beta Testing By: Nicolas Garilhe

[BenjiCS]

Hey Guedin,

I see you've received many thanks for your work on this thread, and I don't mean to be redundant, but truly a great workflow breakdown! When I first saw the initial images I thought, 'huh, Hardsurface tutorial from Eat3D,' but when I started reading the actual text, it's quit different! I really like your work flow! Keep it up!

[Webhead]

Nice work! Congrats on having your sculpt used in one of the Z4R2 classroom movies, too.

[tobbeo]

I'm curious as I am about to build a bunch of space-ships, would you say that it's faster to model these sorts of models in Zbrush? Before R2, despite the shadowbox and hard brushes I didn't feel it was fast enough. Now with Dynamesh, Insert Mesh and Clipping brushes I feel that it might start to get to the point of being faster than modeling with polygons. But even the retopo that you had to do is something you wouldn't have to do if you built it with polygons in 3dsmax/Maya and that takes a bit of time. One positive is that you can sketch out the forms fast that you wouldn't be able to in a traditional 3D software. But the overall time spent from start to finish, which comes out first? What are your thoughts on it?

I'm only talking modeling as I wouldn't use BPR. BPR is a nice presentation tool but for everything else I don't see much use for it.

[CGPoto]

Nice work!

[Guedin]

Thanks everybody

@tobbeo : That's something I also asked myself. The main goal of the retopology in my workflow, is to obtain simple, but perfect, shapes. After that I can cut in it, and add more details on it. Even if building those shapes in Max or Maya is as simple as if it was done in ZBrush, I feel like, the more the shapes come complex, the more it difficults to handle topology and avoiding artefacts and pinching issues. In fact, in Max and Maya, you have to think entirely your model before modeling it, because when you layed down the topology, it became difficult to change it shapes. I feel like it is less painful to work without worrying about topology

Here's something I did for fun, I don't know yet where it will end. I started from a simple sphere with DynaMesh :

[Arran J Lewis]

This is a great thread and a show piece for the latest update to Zbrush. I found your explanation of the your process very useful and very clear. I imagine the pixologic guys are very grateful to your for your contribution in showing the valuable additions to V4. Your model is great and well constructed, and I love the comp with it in place, making full use of the new rendering abilities. Well done, totally awesome.

Arran

[zenonithus]

I noticed in one of your videos you inserted a cylinder into the body of another mesh. I understand you did this through the insert mesh tool, though I cant seem to understand how you then managed to integrate the two meshes together so that you could smooth them together. Can you explain a bit more how this works?

edit: actually I just figured its dynamesh!

[ke]

Super tuto: un très grand merci!!
J'ai essayé de le suivre au maximum parcontre impossible de mettre la main sur le "Noisemaker plugin" . Donc impossible de générer une espèce de camouflage: il n'est pas sur la page habituelle des plugins tel que master subtool etc... tu l'as trouvé où??

A part ça ben c'est simple:
Awesome!

[Guedin]

Merci pour les compliments,
Fais un tour dans le menu surface =» noise, du menu tool. Ça devrais t'ouvrir la fenêtre du noise maker plugin

[ke]

Désolé, j'ai pas été assez clair.
En fait j'ai un message d'erreur quand j'essaye d'activer le bouton "NoisePlug".

Et j'obtiens ça:


C'est pour ça que je te demandais où je peux le trouver ce plugin

[rodrigoj]

Thanks for sharing your Knowledge.
I was needing some instruction about how to do geometric models in Z-brush.
Now i feel prepared

[jeris82]

Really great work man, thanks a ton for taking time out to post how you did it.

One question though, and sorry if I missed it but....what exactly are you doing when you merge the two subtools together on the plate to make the spherical insertion area ? It came out really clean and you seemed to use a shortcut ? Merging doesn't have that nice of a result for me and I was really curious.

Again, great work and thank you.

[Guedin]

Thanks a lot guys !

@ke : Hmmm ... Ton message d'erreur est plutôt étrange. Je suis désolé mais je pense pas pouvoir t'aider sur ce coup là :s

@Rodrigoj : Glad to hear it, good luck for your next project

@Jeris82 : Thanks man. I'm not sure if I understood well but, have you tried to bump the resolution before remeshing your subtools ? quality depends on the resolution you put in the dynamesh menu. Also, when I want to have clean cut, I use clip brushes. That may come in handy. I hope it will help you

[Kors]

Brilliant work Nicolas! Once again confirm the highest level of the Canadian school of computer graphics. Thank you!

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthr...7-Bronzozaurus