Hi All, first post to this forum. I wanted to push my zbrush skills after seeing all the amazing work being done with it.
here are the results, for now. I have to put it down but will pick up later to make a surrounding environment. Modeled in Maya, textured mostly in photoshop, with cavity, smoothness and peaks and valley maps pulled from zbrush.
Crits most welcome! thanks
Brian
perfect, some more infos on this excellent work ? I mean some screenshot from zbrush on how you have texture and modelled it? would be very apprecited, keep on posting 
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Looks very nice. Excellent work! small_orange_diamond
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THanks guys. will post some additional stuff as soon as possible
Brian
k, here’s the whole sordid tale. first couple are the reference pics I found of this place, which is in Algeria.
i did a drawing in photoshop, then a black and white painting based on the drawing.
then I decided I would model and sculpt it. I modeled a brick in maya, and basically bricked the whole thing out. Crazy? maybe, but, this allowed very easy sculpting in brush, as I grouped the bricks (which I culled the backs and sides of as much as possible) into sections, imported in zbrush, then broke into subtools based on poly groups. Then I just moved from brick to brick, loading up alphas to get a general, subtle rockiness, and wrecking the corners of the brick.
contintued…
then on to text. painting. isolating each group, I grabbed cavity, smoothness, and peaks and valley maps, exported to photoshop through zap plink. Fill with a dark color first. Using base rock textures for color and grunge maps + pulled maps from geo as masks, texture it up. Since I did mainly front projections, I had to go back and polypaint touch up the sides of things. Could use some more love, but, probably as far as I’m going to take it this time 
This deserves a whole lot more attention, amazing work … im going to bookmark this thread. Nice small_orange_diamondsmall_orange_diamondsmall_orange_diamond
Thank you for posting this wonderful piece.
Thank you for the workflow.
Excellent work.
Thanks guys! as far as attention goes, I didn’t really expect much, as environment pieces don’t seem to be what sells here 
but, it’s the work that’s important. Thanks again for the kind words. I’ll post more later, but, it will be a few months.
Brian
as environment pieces don’t seem to be what sells here
I wouldn’t say it. You never know.
Cheers, keep the good working.
您好！可以将您这个作品发给我学习� �习吗？！谢谢！
Hello! Can you send me this work to study? ! Thank you!
