mantispa-final(TUTORIAL ADDED)

[vlad74]

I finally finished this image. It is a bit abstract. I didn't follow the mantis's proportions, colours ans shapes strictly. The whole image is 100% Zbrush. Only for the notice in the left upper corner I used different soft.

Thanks for viewing.




big resolution image

[_dado]

that's a really beautifull image vlad. great detailing. how did you get the transparency on the wing? no matter how hard i try, i can't achieve transparency in zbrush. also could you post some different angles of the mantis? or maybe some close ups?



dado

[aminuts]

Turned out fantastic!! I look forward to your next bug!!

[souleat]

the whole picture is beautiful - i like also the stem in the background !

[Svengali]

Vlad,

It's Iconic!

This reminds me of the many, good-old Zbrush posts from long ago. Well conceived, patient execution and follow-through. It glows.

Very nice piece of work

Sven

[vlad74]

Thank you guys.

_dado- For the trensparency I used the usual way. The transparent part of the wings is in a different layer. In the render pallete Flatten must be turned off. About the angles and close up . sorry I've converted it to pixols.

Svengali - thanks.

[vlad74]

For new version scroll up.

[vlad74]

later on i'll post a small tut.

[aminuts]

wow am glad you reposted this render!! it's much ligher and shows detail (at least on my old tank of a computer) that I had barely noticed before!!

I for one cannot wait for a tutorial from ya!! I only have one question.....does it also come with the patience needed to follow thru on something like this!

Just kidding!


Really I can't wait til ya do another so....while I would love to see a tutorial from ya.......I'd rather see your next work!!

[marciani]

Elegant and well composed!

Bye
Leo

[mmbenya]

Hey vald74, really excellent work with great detail!

Matt

[Frenchy Pilou]

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Pilou
Ps Maybe this can help somebody
Insects

[vlad74]

Hi guys. Here is a small tutorial I did:

There isn't anything complicated that's been done for this image. I concentrated on modeling, texture painting and shader tweaking.
For the lighting - 1 light was used.

Here is a picture showing the different stages of the modeling.




At stage 7 I separated the mesh(by masking) into 3 pieces for further refining and texture painting. At that stage the mesh was 1 728 512 polys.

For painting and adding small details I used projection master. The textures's size were 4096x4096.




After I finished the the painting I positioned the 3 parts and started on the wings. I combined 2 meshes both created using zspheres. One of them - the transparent one - I put in a diffrent layer.



After I positioned the wings I made the background. The grass I did using fiber brush. For the plant I used zspheres. Then I painted the plant's texture with PM.



After the final render I loaded the image back to zb and did minor changes of the sharpnes and shading.

[SolidSnakexxx]

Very cool bug indeed and nice tut as well.

Yong

[Dan-Burke]

Well done and thanks for the tutorial.