More techno info and questions;
Back to another dose of ZBrush again, it’s addictive, you know ( but I guess I’m preaching to the choir) I’m making time to devote . . . didn’t expect the program to be that enticing ! Hopefully, Without sounding like a country song, This time I’ll give you a little insight to my outlook and goals (and a few questions thrown in).
I got a lot of pokers in the fire professionally / personally, these 25 hour days, eight day weeks aren’t easy. My profession(metal sculpture) was/is “old school” - 10% inspiration (theory, sketching, generally white collar)and 90% perspiration (labor intensive tasks, using sheet-metal working equipment, etc. - blue-collar) basically has been a pre-computer era. Fast forward 20 years, I’m now 60-ish, body parts are wearing out and I’m searching for an easier creative process to express my marketable skills. (there’s that country melody again) The reason I’m telling you this is so you know where I’m coming from and where potential I’m going to…(Z?) Now my life is being bombarded with computer graphics, CAD, Digital Art and yes, ZBrush possibilities. Instead of spending a lot of time looking for answers to my techno questions in the Zcommunities very vast and extensive “research Library”, I’ll throw them out to anyone who wants to “field” them. (Member input needed) to determine whether ZBrush can work for me.
1.) Can I design / create or sculpt an object (Zsphere, etc.) in ZBrush - send it to a 3-D program, manipulate it there or send it to a program that could produce a sheet-metal layout pattern drawing for me to cut out, form and weld up as a finished sculpture? . . . or similar variations thereof. - and if so, particular leads, programs, and “addresses”, would be greatly appreciated.
- completely different subject and process - Can or How do I(in ZBrush Paint) create a painting on the “canvas” that has a resolution so tight or high that when it is blown up to 24" x 36" or 36" x 48" or larger and not have pronounced “jaggies” or pixelization?
I know I’m probably asking a lot, but from what I’ve seen and read about ZBrush so far, it could be possible.
Thank you in advance for any help you can contribute to my questions, but I have to tell you, I’ve not had much opportunity to use this type of “community networking” process but from what I’ve been involved with so far in the “ZBrush World”, I have been truly amazed by the responsive quickness, accuracy and bonding of the members to members - and because of the typing involvement in it I was forced to buy one of these" voice activating" type programs, and for someone like myself at 5 to10 words a minute, it’s a godsent!
ArtistBob . . . . over
