Hi, i did this in september but other studies diverted my focus off of this.
As for the material part, ive been experimenting with high resolution photograps of my own since im also into non 3d arts. which to a suggestion of a friend i wanted to incorperate them into my art which translated into materials. i oroginaly was going to post the materials as a "trick or treat" goodie bag but since the combide data amount of all of the materials has prevented me from posting them for the past 2 months since i havent found a host yet for this pack. the more recent creations of materials are a huge file size of 11mb on the extreame volume since the rich color and raw photo used as a map is 22 inches, so you can really expand their use. i will be posting samples so that hopefully the wait to get you the materials will be over soon. i expect the total file pack uncompressed to be at least 150mb+. i have no money right now to host such a file. i would really like to give these for free to the z comunity but i lack the resources even hosting the huge amount of alphas and textures that i want to upload also for free. these are a small fraction of what you will get. the one also on my hat is a clay material that some in this comunity already have so, ive got lots of work to do, and uploading my sss tests which i came close to in some instances. with my forms and color thread i also have a material in there that wil be included.
you know what, ill just post whatever i can also in the form of mats on the hat, after all witches are magical =)
i am a amature modeler i know that, i am trying to improve so much, but i also want to give back to zbrushers. i want to also out of respect for fellow artists. Ive been trying to host this steadily growing collection for 5 months, the total files size is prob 1gig or more of all the resources that i want to giveaway for FREE yes FREE. 6 gigs of raw photos to convert to z resources, lots and lots of stuff. its frusterating, zbrush is so awesome that you all inspire me with all your posts, i want to give back, i want to make zbrush even more powerful, but hosting it myself is impossible right now.
and please comment on these materials, its vital to putting out even greater quality!