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    What?!?!
    Did I make you notice that you have an addiction to ZBrush?
    GRIN!
    I have it too..... it wakes me up at outrageous hours and makes me try things.
    I think I understand some new stuff as a result of last nights insomnia.
    If I'm right there will be a new tutorial in my thread soon, partly this is your doing.
    I have been looking at your stuff a lot (I know I haven't commented much, and that's your fault too; you keep giving me ideas!!!)
    nope...
    I don't know what I'm doing but I'm doing it anyway.

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    I knew I was having trouble with your threads, I posted one thing and it never showed up so I posted another and POOF they both show up.
    This could get confusing.... and its been happening for a while.
    nope...
    I don't know what I'm doing but I'm doing it anyway.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MealeaYing View Post
    I knew I was having trouble with your threads, I posted one thing and it never showed up so I posted another and POOF they both show up.
    This could get confusing.... and its been happening for a while.
    Weird. Maybe that explains the lack of reaction to my fantastic work! Anyway, here's the latest update. Still looking for the elusive perfect angle. Finally added some more detail to the lodge. Changed the angle slightly although I'm probably going to change that again because I want to see the water in the background as well as the foreground. Also resized the arches to make them scale better with the rest of the scene and did a minor update to the gazebo. Still working on the water a little.

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    Pretty close to final here. Thoughts anyone?

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    Even though the model and background don't match up that well in this angle, I'm really fond of this one.

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    Switching to Dwarves now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by voodoodad View Post
    Switching to Dwarves now.
    That is a very rectangle dwarf!
    How are you doing the lettering, is that an alpha?
    That looks very good.
    nope...
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    Hey ! Thats looking pretty good Love that river view..............
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    " In Life like Art one must allways search for the connected Perspective " * D.J.S.

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    Great outcome on this river scene piece VoodooDad....Has That Enchanted Look and Feeling about it..Excellent..


    Really looking forward to seeing where this journy and adventure leads you to next..
    Glenn
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    Mealeaying; That's the top of Balin's Tomb from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Yes, it's an alpha I made from an image i grabbed somewhere. Unfortunately, Zbrush decided to do a crash and burn while saving the tool last night right after I posted the render here. Luckily it was about 5 minutes of work lost, with three minutes of that counted towards making the alpha in Photoshop, so it's not a big deal to go back and recreate it. I got frustrated after that and decided to use the frustration to face a different frustration of mine, organic sculpting.

    I posted my three favorite renders of Rivendell in my Finished Works Thread so if you guys would go there and give me some feedback, I'd really appreciate it.

    Here's what I started working on last night. I need to elongate the neck and legs more because he looks a little too humanoid for what I want right now. I'm trying to do this the right way, and for me that means not touching Dynamesh unless I absolutely have to. I started using Zbrush right about the time of the dynamesh update and while it's a fantastic tool, it always seems to push me to want to finish things up without getting the basics down first. So I'm doing this one the old fashioned way. Started with a Zsphere base which became an adaptive skin. This is really the first time I've been at less than a million polys this far into a sculpt, so feedback is a necessity at this point.
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    Hmm. The avatar selection thing is giving me fits. Let me see if I can figure this out.
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    Small updates.

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    Progress? Hell, I can't tell.

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    Hi VoodooDad...

    http://kerembeyit.cgsociety.org/gallery/

    Above is a link to some great dragons....Check them out when you have time..He has them scattered throughout his portfolio...You might draw some inspiration from them, and they might give you some good ideas for the one that you are working on....Who Knows..

    Glenn
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    Hey! Love the River scene! Looks really awesome. The dragon looks pretty neat as well. Looking forward to seeing him completed!

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