I have seen this arguement before on numerous occasions. There are a lot of things created with Z2 at ZBC. There have been many landscapes created, Gary Komar has been doing “normal” (no offence Gary) females for a long time, there have been Zmachines created over time, normal animals and insects, normal muscled hard bodies, normal faces…etc etc…you just have to search around.
Personally I do the zombie theme etc, over and over and over…simply because, the monster and zombie thing is what I have loved to draw on paper for years since the mid 70s for the zombie thing…but that is what I enjoy making. Though I draw normal stuff…the scary stuff is just more interesting to me personally.
When I found zbrush v1.0 I translated my love of the twisted from the paper to the computer. It’s not all I model or can model, it’s just what I prefer to model at this time.
I always say, I will leave puppy dogs and butterflies to other people to create. Nothing wrong with it.
I have done some erotic stuff that I have posted on Renderotica. I get asked alot what program I use to make my pics, so I guess I do promote zbrush alot. I know I do in the real world with the circles I travel.
And it’s not always about anatomy knowledge for me, or lack of, it’s just a matter of creating what floats into my own brain pan and out onto the digital canvas.
Though Zbrush is just a fun modeling tool, why would I want to use it to create telephones and or cell phones…tons of free 3d models out there to set up props for a scene…Z is the ultimate in organic modeling imho.
I draw heads on paper mostly, and do the same with Z2…it’s relaxing to me.
To me there are alot of things that are best left to regular ole “take a picture” type mediums. And alot of that can be translated into z, but since monsters at this time don’t seem to really exist, I will continue to crank out distorted, mutilated, phantasmagorifical (sp) and nightmarish images…simply because, it’s relaxing, fun and it’s what I do.
But if you want cellphones and vehicles or inanimate objects, you can easily post your own challenges to the community in the challenges area and see if you get any takers. That type of a challenge might just take off nicely, who knows.
Saw this thread and thought I would add my piddly 2 cents worth.
I am not offended and I hope I didn’t offend, but honestly from the original tone of things you haven’t gone through many of the galleries of the users here to see what has been produced over the last couple of years. You might just get astounded. Click on Search and type in a genre of choice.
One other thing I would like to mention and throw out for maybe more views and discussion are the movies. Most of the time in the past you have people in rubber suits and rubber masks playing the characters in fantasy, sci fi and horror movies. Today you have alot less of the special effects makeups and more use of CGI. With the exception of the LOTR movies and a very few others, most of the cgi created characters used and imposed in movies are still pretty low budget looking creations imho. The barrier to realism just isn’t crossed that often and you can tell it’s cgi. The Dawn of the Dead remake married both the old rubber ways and enhanced cgi effects to the finished picture, which really made for a effects experience. Cgi to me should enhance movies effects for added realism and budgetary restraints. No offense to the gaming community but most cgi characters in the movies have that “look to them”. Though I still enjoy the movies like that, the cgi characters for the most part lack that aspect of realism, (with few exceptions "Star Wars added somewhat imho). Do any of you agree with that? Do you think at the current stage of 3d technology actors can fully be replaced without having that Poser look to the characters? Should they be? Those questions I think are reasons why there are also so many creatures, monsters, zombies, shreks etc out there. Do you agree or disagree? What genre should the average Joe be delving into in their works and why? Just some fat to chew on. (Ron stops his ramble)
Interesting thread, ChrisG.
Looking forward to your future postings.
kind regards,
Ron
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