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A quick way to make ruined buildings?

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#1

Does anybody have any suggestions for making ruined modern buildings in zbrush? They don’t have to be terribly detailed, just some stuff for the background.

I hope you don’t mind me asking. I could probably manage this, but there are so many talented folks here who could get it done in about 10% of the time that it would take me to muddle through…

Thanks.

#2

how do you mean ruined? like a world war II england kind of ruined or more of a run down gotham city darkeness kind of ruined?

#3

i’m lazy, so i would do it this way : make an alpha image in Zbrush, using Ztools ( 2D mode) and then : Alpha make 3D …you can even use photo’s of real buildings.

sort-of-ruin.jpg

this is just one quick alpha…if you use 3 or 4, you can make nice ruins !

jantim

#4

Thanks Jantim, that’s good. I had come up with a couple based on primitives, masking, deforming etc. but that would be faster and I like the looks better.

Hi Aminuts. I’m thinking ruined like the entire social order has collapsed post apocolyptic sort of ruined. :smiley: Just some kind of low detail stuff for backgrounds. Thanks.

#5

…use some grids masking with negative gravity, inflation Deforrmations :wink:

#6

Thanks Frenchy. I have a couple done that way.

I found some pictures of buildings and brick walls such on the net and tried alpha skinning them. I had some success, but I think alpha skinning a picture is kind of a dicey proposition. The more I look at jantim’s alpha and other “sucessfully” skinned alphas on zbc the more I can see very uniform coloration on them.

Thanks.