First attempts

[Dragon]

Now that's awsome. The texture is not 'over done'. Its got that nice eye appeal. I really, really, really like this texture. And now I can see the horse better too, man, what a COOL concept. I am digging this sculpt alot. Ah, I noticed the tail in the back. Man, your really putting that fiber mesh to use. Cool beans for you my friend. I will be checking on your progress through out the week. Keep going, keep going-

[voodoodad]

Thanks again Dragon! The mat was made by Edward Fleissing in his great tutorial here . There's a download link on the second page of the thread. I copied the shader to the reflection map material, changed the reflection texture to a plain brick picture and then modified the settings till I got what I wanted. Keep in mind that the worn paint effect only works in best render mode for some reason, but I found out if you do a best render followed by a bpr, you get the best of both modes.

Here's my nearly completed model. I have to do some tweaking in areas and add a few small details. Suggestions are welcome as always.

[voodoodad]

Test render. Made the chest area a little deeper, details on face/head area, added reins and fibermesh grass.

[blueferret]

Fine work on this mecha horse......relly cool concept and very unique....keep up good stuff......

[Dragon]

This horse would be cool as a bronze sculpture. I know your wanting to play with the new fibermesh, but you should give him a 'metal' base as well... don't know, gravel or something? Coming along real neat-

[voodoodad]

Blueferret; Thanks, man! I really admire your work as well.

Dragon; You're doing that mind reading thing again! The plane underlying the fibermesh already has a decent dirt road texture applied to it, so I'm going to go back and do the fibermesh treatment again only a lot sparser. I'm in the middle of creating an environment for this piece right now bit I haven't got anything worth posting as of yet. I'm pushing the poly count with 15 million polys on the horse alone, so I may have to create the environment seperately and photoshop them together for the end product. Not sure yet. My tank has over 40 million polys after I sharpened it up so my rig can handle quite a bit more, but zbrush has a tendency to bog down and crash a lot when I push it that far, so I'll just have to see how many polys I need for what I want to do.

[Araxy]

This is my fisrt attempt to create something directly on zbrush, i still don´t know how to illuminate or get the render in a better quality but im still trying. As soon as i can reach a better look i will submit it!! but for now this is my model =D

[voodoodad]

All I've had time for today is adding a water trough. Hopefully I'll accomplish more this evening.

[chalkman]

Very cool steampunk horse! Cheers, David

[voodoodad]

Thanks, David! I'm glad you like it.

Progress this afternoon/evening.

[voodoodad]

One more update.

[voodoodad]

As the title states...

[voodoodad]

Close to final.

[chalkman]

Looking very good! I love the reference to Lonesome Dove! one of my favorite books & movies! Cheers, David

[voodoodad]

Thanks again, David! I was hoping someone would pick up on that lol. I think the font on the sign is the same as on the original cover of the book as well. Now I've just got to figure out how to make fibermesh sagebrush and maybe even a tumbleweed or two and I'm all set!