Dystopia

[Deryck]

Hello
I`m here to share my last personal project Dystopia
I started this character to try and practice the new amazing features of ZBrush 2021.6
And oh boy I couldn’t be happier with the new features
But especially with the new mask brushes
Mesh Balloon, Mesh Extrude and Mesh Project.
It is really amazing to play with these brushes.
I had a lot of fun creating this character and the possibility of adding geometry instantly using the mask brush greatly facilitates the creation process.
The name o this character is Alpha, and as you guys can see he is not that complex.

My plan here was to get the overall shape good enough to convince the idea I had in my mind.
I was playing with the forms and having fun.
This worked much more as a 3D concept than a actual production model.

Since I wanted to create this teaser but I didn’t have enough free time to go to all the right steps of the pipeline to produce a character.
(which I already do everyday at work)
As soon as I found the design I wanted my next moves were: decimate the high poly model using Decimation Master, open the uvs using Uv Master.

Then jump into Substance Painter to create some cool textures for my model.

With that done I could play around with my model inside Unreal Engine and using Maximo and Megascans I could created this Teaser Film called Dystopia
And I’m planning on expand this universe it will be a lot of fun.
For now I did a bunch of movie poster I really enjoy to do this, Kojima Style

If you watch the teaser, let me know…hope you enjoy it.

Cheers.

[freakineken]

Nice work Deryck!

[Jaime]

Congrats Deryck, like the style of your character, sort of both, retro and futuristic look! can’t wait until the next teaser
Jaime

[Deryck]

@freakineken thank you, glad you liked

Hey @Jaime thank you for the support, glad you enjoy the design, there is more of those characters on the way.
Now with this new mask brushes became even easier to create using ZBrush, especially to make quick prototypes like this.

[brudva]

Great work Like the armor design!

[Geert_Etcher_Melis]

Really, really cool work. I understand that you see this as concepting (sketching?) to get the initial idea visualized, so it’s impressive to see that the imagery packs power - but that’s probably what a good concept/sketch should be all about. Look forward to seeing the updates! !!

[Deryck]

thank you @brudva, I’m having loads of fun creating with this new mask brush
Thank you very much @Geert_Etcher_Melis
That is exactly my goal, create those 3D sketch concepts and put my Ideas out of my head. And nowadays we have the tools to achieve so much.
I am just trying to create my small worlds and play with ideas.
I wish I had had the technical knowledge I have today back when I was a kid
thank you for the five stars

[PixoPaul]

Love it. Glad to hear you are enjoying the new brushes. Great job on the video as well.

[Deryck]

Thank you @PixoPaul I’m really enjoying I did the entire character using the same technique
I saw your presentation doing the armor on that character and thought Okay, I want to do that too
I will still have a lot of fun with these new brushes.

[Deryck]

[ZMichael]

Great job on this one, thanks for sharing!

[Deryck]

@ZMichael thank you.

I invested the last days finishing my wife’s portrait
Last night I was able to play a little with ZBrush and the result was this sketch video.
I’m just having fun with this series.
As a side note, occlusion on ZBrush view port is the best thing ever

[Jaime]

Awesome update Deryck! What I like most is the prototyping of the character, uneven, banged up, quick experiments with the new tools and features but it does resonates visually. Very cool and different.
Jaime

[PixoPaul]

I agree, great update.