Spring "Come out and Play"

[DMerchen]

Here is a model I built for the 3darttopart.com contest. I am not too sure about it, but it enabled me to get back into ZBrush. I am so psyched about new projects I have planned now. I have had Zbrush for a while (since 1.23) and I am still learning. This one taught me a lot. I still wish ZBrush had booleans. Perhaps in the next release? Anyway, I hope you enjoy this one. This is for Spring. It shows a bird waiting for the worm to Come out and Play, while the worm is right behind him hiding behind a couple of mushrooms. Enjoy!!

[aminuts]

hi,

That turned out great!! Good luck to ya.....it looks like something they would definitely choose!

makes me wanna go out and play in the mud...er...garden!

[ilusiondigital]

hahahah, it´s a funy and lovely bird.

[cosmic*f00l*]

lookin good

[DMerchen]

Thanks for the replies. It was pretty fun to do. I had to multimark each separate piece and then generate the new mesh from the marked items. SO, the model grew to be a HUGE amount of polygons and the file size was huge also. If anyone can help me figure out how you guys get such smooth models with a lower polygon count. Mine was absolutely outrageous. Anyway, thanks for stopping by and taking a look.

[Dickie]

What a fun scene you have here! I like your character designs a lot...

As for keeping the poly count lower, the way most folks do it is to model the base shapes in Lightwave, Maya, or any other poly/nurbs modeler. That way
you can optimize the model as you go. The great thing about Z-Brush is the fact that we can have multiple-millions of polys at once.

A way to save ram is to build up your pieces and save the document. Then restart Z-Brush and reload your document. THEN load up more of the high poly pieces without having all of them loaded at once.

Hope this clarifies things a wee bit,

Dickie