Drawing on ( quick sketches )

[Tartan]

ok Now for the fun I have been having

I have always loved black and white imagery and have been exploring Sculptris and Incendia with that in mind. The first experiment was to render a scene in Incendia in black and white then use it as a background in Sculptris applying a black and white mat to my space shuttle, then taking a screenshot. It composited fairly well.


The second is a very rough sculpted Hammerhead shark I made in Sculptris and imported into Incendia as an stl file. I rendered it at 3200. Basic shape is there but the fins got distorted. I will correct that when I get my new Intuos drawing tablet

[Bas Mazur]

Hey dude, love that last one! Time for a new tutorial?

[Tartan]

I can point you to the tutorial I used Bas To keep an element from multiplying keep the base detail at 0. That way you can do scenes.http://www.incendia.net/wiki/index.p...ith_Baseshapes
The results of stl files imported into Incendia seems to be very Uneven. It distorts the geometry. Here is the castle I was putting together in Silo imported in. See how jagged the edges are? Take a close look at the Hammerheads fins and head. The geometry was distorted there also. When I get my new Intuos, it wont be a problem because I can Painter 12 it. But it does produce more problems with the castle than it did the Hammerhead. I can probably find a good fractal combination with the castle in it but it looks to me like it would be better to find the right Incendia setting and Then import the castle into it as i did with the Hammer. Results are so unpredictable but thats where the fun comes in

[michalis]

I love your B/W sketches. Especially this with the shark.
Well done. What about a comic? I have some ideas BTW
And already constructed some shaders for this.

[Tartan]

Thx Michalis,
The shark did come in well for the most part but as noted needs to be cleaned a bit in Painter, not much. It was a fun one to do. On comics. I considered going down that road back in 07 and again with the inimitable Dreamz with me as the writer. Heres an old thread I just dug up using Zbrush. http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=44447 What did you have in mind?

[michalis]

Fiction but a real story after all.
A great philosopher of the 20th century, Ludvig Wittgenstein (my favorite). Based on a real story. In front line WW1, "no mans land". There in the middle of no man, he started writing his famous book "tractatus logico-philosophicus"
This book drives me to the most dark places (and the most brilliant) of human soul. As many parallel realities you like. This is how we think, but it also makes us say "it makes sense" "senses" sense. Senses save us. Our humble 5 senses. More than enough.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractat...-Philosophicus

[Tartan]

Fascinating man Michalis but a very troubled man as well apparently. It seems like he retracted some of his conclusions in Tracatus in his posthumous work. I can see using it as the theme of a story arc of an ongoing series not based on him but incorporating his story as part of it's background. Something Neil Gaiman or Alan Moore (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) could handle with ease. It would also make him a contemporary of H.G Wells and Rudyard Kipling among many others. The fact he was at the same school as Hitler opens up story ideas also leading into Hitlers obsession with the occult and obscure philosophies. I doubt Hitler knew he was a Jew by ancestry. His relationship with Bertrand Russell opens up possibilities as well as the suicides of 3 of his brothers. But there needs to be a focal point and a framework outside of him. Something more to carry the story arc along in an entertaining if somewhat dark philosophical manner.

[michalis]

I could start posting some stuff but I'll spoil your thread. Any better option?
What about an open project thread? Start it and I'll follow.

[Tartan]

I will be sending you a message on that Michalis

[JoseConseco]

Those b&w render are very cool. I also googled Incendia and it is interesting little app. Thanks for sharing.

[Tartan]

Thx Jose Yes Incendia is very fun but sucks up system resources. I can tell the difference when I am in Sculptris while Incendia is rendering. It has its limitations but sometimes if you hunt hard enough you can set a scene up. Its a shame that the meshes come in looking so distorted except for the shark and a few other experiments I have done. Other times it just looks cool with completely unexpected results.

[Tartan]

Just doodling a bit.

[Tartan]

Just going back to an old idea. I was thinking about making the old Avenger's foe Ultron and it traveled an entirely different direction. 00 is the model after it came out of Sculptris. I was trying for a variety of different planes. I masked a number of areas. Pulled them out, smoothed and flattened them down, then I took it to Z. Looking at what came out in 01 there are a number of changes I would be making like rerouting some power lines but it was a fun doodle.

[Tartan]

Experimenting with forms while I try and home in on a final of this variation. All the base forms came out of sculptris except the headpiece and midsection which was an extract from the hip and duplicated 3 times, then merged in Z.

[Tartan]

I see the person who rates peoples works with low stars and Never gives out decent feedback or a reason why has struck again. I never thought of my work as top anyway. This subject has been approached before http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=32140