(Nudity Warning) Hello Zbrush, I'm Cherub rock, pleased to meet you

[voodoodad]

Hi! Thank you very much

Here's a new sculpt and fibermesh ordeals. I found out that with each combing I increase the chance of fiber tips getting deformed (vertices moved from each other) resulting in a wider tip than root, doesn anyone hnow a way around it other than individually correcting each tip with this bug?

All Zbrush dynamesh, with 3dcoat retopo. work in progress...but I'm getting more and more frustrated with realistic rendering in Z, especially with skin and eyes, that I just might leave it at this.

Hey Cherub. Beautiful work on the old guy bust. I've noticed the bug you're talking about after moving or smoothing (to shorten) the fibermesh. I've found that using the groom lengthen brush lightly on the effected area seems to pull the fibers out to their original width. Hope this helps.

[cherub_rock]

Thanks guys, thank you voodoodad, I'll give it a try!

Here's what I've come up with, Zbrush render single pass with BPR filters. WIP

[voodoodad]

WOW! You've hit another one out of the park! He looks like a dwarf from the LotR movies. I take that back. He looks BETTER than that!

[polaroid29]

Wow, your skin detailing is just on point man. You're a master at it these days. Also, those eyes are a zbrush render?! Looks great.

He reminds me of the old man Jafar embodies when he tricks Aladdin into going through the cave of wonders

[cherub_rock]

Thank you so much guys! Really he looks like that old man

The eyes are a Zbrush render, toyplastic material tweaked a little bit for them and on the top of the lower eyelid is layed out a longitudal sausage shape extract with the same material applied and transparency on for a bit of a wet effect
BTW I've tweaked it and edited the alst post not to be too boring with much posts. Tweaked the skin and eye shaders, as well as trying out different ways to render out the fibers. I'm now much happier with the skin and eyes, but would very much lilke to work on the fibers from scratch when i find the inspiration for it.

[Jerick]

Real wet/oily looking skin ! A very convincing render!

[cherub_rock]

Thank you Jerick! That means a lot.

Here's the final, same man, shaved. Zbrush for modeling texturing and rendering, photoshop color correction.

[monstermaker]

He is cool. I am glad you changed his hair it looks much better short. Shorter fibermesh is easier to control isn't it.

[cherub_rock]

Thank you for stopping by! A lot easier

[SammehSAMURAI]

From Gandalf to ser Gandalf that is a really good sculpt, he has a lot of character, I would like to be his friend.

[cherub_rock]

Hehe, thank you. And he yours

[f roldan]

Hey man, you were featured on stan winston school of character arts facebook page, they didn`t know your name, i posted the link to this thread in the image, hope they put your name there soon, cheers. https://www.facebook.com/BDFGRG#!/StanWinstonSchool

[cherub_rock]

Thank you so much F Roldan! That just made my day

[cherub_rock]

And now for something completely different Inspired by Paul Kidby, sculpted in Zbrush, additional modeling in 3ds max. Rendered in Zbrush and background in photoshop.

Render


Base and shaded final

[voodoodad]

Just another "holy crap" moment compliments of Cherub Rock. Awesome!