Hello Marcus, (yes, I visited your website )
thank you for the nice words! It has been a while since I last posted in this thread, and it is very encouraging to see people still appreciate this work.
This has truly been my first ZBrush work. I tried learning it before, but felt quite frustrated in all my attempts… Had little time to study, and the interface seemed too “weird” to me.
When the opportunity came to do this project, I was thrilled because I would finally have “work-time” available to sit and learn ZB from start to finish.
The Ptero gave me the perfect opportunity to develop some useful ZB skills and work out a pipeline in our studio to take advantage of a ZBrush/RenderMan workflow.
I think your ptero is not bad at all!! With a “rougher” shader, better illumination, some “erratic imperfections” in the flight cycle and emphasizing a bit more of the body weight in every flapping of the wings you’ll get yourself a winner ptero shot!
Keep up the work, and show me some progress if you choose to work on it!
Cheers!