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#1

i was invited recently to provide backgrounds or the like for a great local artists catalogue - right now i do not know much but that it should look like 60s flowerpower popart and make use of solarisation. until i know more and can get started i am doodling and trying this and that. here are the first results which i hope some of you might like :slight_smile: i probably will update this thread now and thenā€¦

:ex: any tips re: solarisation in z, what its basically about, what materials to use and the like would be mucho appreciated!

  • juandel
#2

I dont really have anthing to add about the knowledge of solarization but both of these images are very kewl. The top one is more organic to me, but the second one is another one of those that really drew my eye into it. I saw something that was skeletal in the imageā€¦very kewl looking ā€¦and it looks like you definitely are capturing the spirit of what they are after. In this link I reposted Belleskiā€™s materialā€¦try using that with a quick doodle ā€¦its has that pop feel to me about itā€¦and as I have said before itā€™s one of my fav materialsā€¦

Keep us posted on these trulyā€¦sounds like a very promising project for you.

Sloshā€™s thread with Belleskiā€™s material file

#3

Jaundel, I do not know much about this subject but I will do a little research and get back to you.
These images look great to me.

:slight_smile: :slight_smile: :smiley: :smiley: :+1: :+1:

#4

Very nice and vivid images --I hope you put at least 30 ā€œupdatesā€ here they all Shine !!! :smiley: :smiley: :+1: :+1:

#5

hey good work juandel :+1:
i like how you got eye balls in the top pic on the right i see 4 of them :wink:

#6

nice one :wink: :smiley:

#7

Wish I could help out on the solarization, but Iā€™m clueless. Nice images though :slight_smile:

#8

Nice images Hansl, really cosmic eyecatchers. :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1:
Dave

#9

juandel i like the second one alot better than the first oneā€¦it really stands outā€¦very classic juandel artā€¦love to see some moreā€¦

#10

Beautiful work Juandelā€¦the second image
Looks like the circus of psychedelia,
Wonderful :+1: :sunglasses: ā€¦I also, dont know anything about solarization :frowning:

#11

:slight_smile: very nice juandel the second image has that comic book feel to it :+1: :+1: :+1:

#12

Great images Jaundel! I like both of them. :smiley:

Canā€™t wait to see more! :+1: :+1: :+1:

#13

Hi, Juandel- nifty images.

I know a little something about solarization,
so I thought Iā€™d ā€˜jump inā€™ here.

A solarization filter in an image editing
program is a variation on the ā€˜invertā€™ or
ā€˜negative imageā€™ filter. When creating a negative image, the color of each pixel in the image is replaced with its compliment,
that is, with the color directly opposite it on the color wheel. In solarization, the color inversion effect is applied only to pixels whose lightness value is above a certain ā€˜thresholdā€™ level. In many programs, the user can adjust the threshold value.

One way to create negative and solarization- like effects in ZBrush is to adjust the curves in the Render:Adjustments subpalette.
One suggestion is to start with the RGB level curve, add a point to the middle of the curve, and create a V-shaped curve, with the middle point all the the way at the bottom, and the two outside points all the way at the top. Also try the opposite, an inverted V, with the middle point at the top and the outside point at the bottom. You might also want to try playing with the Red, Green, and Blue curves.

Another suggestion I can make for your project is to experiment with the glow material. Try different values for the glow amount and radius settings in the S1 shader. Of course, you can also play around with the various modifiers in the S2 shader.

I hope these ideas will be of some help to you. Youā€™re off to a very promising start already! :wink:

#14

Hi Wayne,

What a great first posting! Very informative, and thanks for the tip about the glow material.

Hi Juandel,

I was just lurking around when I saw your topic and I was working on my response when Wayne posted his, which is most of what I was going to say. Solarization is interesting to me because I am a professional photographer and in college I got to study with the late great Todd Walker, who was a world renown master of solarization, or more technically whatā€™s known as The Sabattier Effect. These two links provide information about the actual photographic process. Hereā€™s some images that show what Wayne is talking about, plus what you can get when you use the GDI and GSI settings in the lighing panel


The first image on the top left is a straight render. Next to it is the Adjustment>RGB curves effect. On the bottom is the GDI/GSI on the left, and on the right a combination of both effects. ZBrush is great for creating this kind of effect and I can think of a few others, but I donā€™t want to ramble on too much. Iā€™m looking forward to seeing more cool images like yours above :cool:

#15

Zoid:

Wow, some great info there!
Thanks for that, and for the nice welcome.
Like you, I am looking forward to some more images from Juandel like the ones he posted at the top of the thread. The first two were really nice!
:+1:

#16

Great posts Juandel!! Really love them! And thanks to wayne and Zoid for the info!

#17

WOW!!! thank you all for the kind comments, Ron for remembering me of that :+1: :+1: :+1: material by Belle and Wayne and Zoid for these incredible insights, sights, links and suggestions :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1: kudos! what a great forum!!! :slight_smile:

especially for the second one i was already very busy in the adjustments section - mainly fiddling with contrast and the graph below brightness. as i also played with the fogeffect i experimented with here there was no way i could do a best render - as the negative fog will vanish when doing so. so upon exporting the pic to photoshop i used some blur and then a lil sharpen edges and unsharp mask filters. next time: with gdi/gsi, glow mat and all the great suggestions provided by you - it will be 100 % Z-Brush :slight_smile:

welcome on board, iLLu and Wayne! and Zoid: please ramble on :wink:

  • juandel
#18

top left corner of pic no. 1

#19

Hi Wayne Hoyt
Go there :slight_smile: http://www.cyber-webs.com/Floydvoid/juandel/
or more quickly here all of Juandel(of Zbrush) Images :slight_smile: http://images.google.com/images?q=Juandel&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=0
Pilou

#20

Thanks, Frenchy. Great stuff! :+1: :slight_smile: