Trying to get to grips with Zbrush

[mykyl]

Well I created a little base mesh and then started to play around with the tools in zbrush. (i need to do some more research on actually adding detail to the skin. The skin is just some shader I found somewhere on these forums with a little bit of tweaking. Nothins serious. Just playing around.



Cheers

Mike R
MuckAroundMan.jpg

[Tartan]

Not bad for just playing, Keep going!

[mykyl]

Well kept at it with this image. I know the collar is kind of not right. I will learn ... I hope.

Still plenty to go.

Cheers

Mike R

[andreseloy]

I like very much his expression and the skin material too
Is basic material?
Congratulations
Andreseloy

[Plakkie]

Wow... I like the style of this. Good composition already. You keep going!

[Ai02]

I reallylike the Style of the Render too ...

[Jason Belec]

Great! Perhaps one of the toon shaders would look cool on this...

[mykyl]

Andreseloy - It was a skin shader I found on these forums but I had to tweak them as they were too shiny and the colouring was not to my taste.

Tartan, Plakkie, Ai02 - Thanks for the positive comments. Any mistakes in this image are learning mistakes that I hope to put right in the next image I do. Leaving them in allows me to see where I went wrong as I attempt to progress with Zbrush.

Jason Belec - I think your right. Maybe the next image I will have a look at using a toon shader.

It is unlikely that I will do images that are photo real as I personally dont feel 'entertained' by reality. I get enough of that in my life. .

I will keep working on this 'learning image' and will post the results later.

Cheers

Mike R

[Jason Belec]

We played a lot with toon stuff awhile back on this thread and another...

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/zb_...21627&r=176694

Several materials wwere posted. Enjoy.

[mykyl]

I spotted that thread when you mentioned about toon shaders. Looks good.

Cheers

Mike R

[mykyl]

Decided I wont carry on with this image. Learned enough from it so I will leave it as is with the mistakes etc left intact.

I played briefly with the fibre brush and although its not the best I am fairly happy with the result of this 'learning' image. Now to think what to do next.



Cheers

Mike R

[Plakkie]

You'll think of something. Zbrush is your oister!

[Moochie]

Fun picture, nicely done.

The first wip .. the mouth and eyes made me immediately think of Dubya. Could be a cool caricature just waiting to be unleashed.

[mykyl]

If you only knew what the WIP files are named.

That similarity did kind of cross my mind and so from then on each file was named after him. I assure you it was unintentional.

Cheers

Mike R