First material blending/ fibre mesh test

[MINTY]

Hello all,I was looking through the gallery earlier and something that monstermaker mentioned regarding blending his materials for his recent wolf image made me fire up ZBrush straight away and see how this is done. All I can say is cheers monstermaker for introducing me to this as I didn't have a clue you could do this with ZBrush. Wow, Pixologic. Just, WOW!!! lol.It seems that every time I open up the latest release I am finding new things to play with, inlcuding the new fibremesh options which I have used here for the first time.Cheers for having a look. Have a great weekend.

[Moga]

great!! you learned it very well.. Can you use more than two materials? i dont play yet blending materials, would you main to explain in a few words (or many as you want) how to..?
Thanks!

[monstermaker]

Glad I could turn you on to something. Did you watch the video on it in the ZClassroom?
It's fun playing with all of the new stuff isn't?

[MINTY]

Moga: Cheers mate. I'm not sure how many materials you can blend together. I don't see why you shouldn't be able to blend more than two materials. I'll have to try that out some time.


I basically looked in the ZBrush documents pages for help. The 'materials blend radius' options are what I came across (I am sure there is probably more to it than this to perfect the look). You can find the page I read here:

http://www.pixologic.com/docs/index....r_Improvements


monstermaker: Fun is too small a word to describe it! I just wish I had more time to play with the features. I'm currently busy working on my final year CGI course major project and the deadline is looming. I couldn't find any videos in the ZClassroom for material blending, it looks like the ZClassroom has changed a lot since I last looked at it. My workflow for finding out how things work usually begins with me hitting every button in ZBrush, drinking too much coffee and seeing what happens lol. Cheers again for opening up the idea of blending materials.

[KC-Production]

Great job on the material blending and really nice rendering, really nice zombey mate!
Looked at your portfolio anthony and there are some nice works aswell!
Keep up the great work!
All the best,
- Kenny

[monstermaker]

Yah we pretty much have the same working methods, except i drink tea.

[MINTY]

Kenny: Cheers for the kind words Kenny, I really appreciate it.

monstermaker: It's the day that hot beverage turns into gin that I dread. Working on this University project, I don't think that day is too far away lol.