nagulov - Thanks man, yeah that's the only reason why i haven't stopped posting on this thread, I really like to keep a constant reminder of where i've come from and it helps me to not get frustrated when i know the level of i want to reach is not there yet. I don't think I'll ever be satisfied, the cursed of the artist. . I'm really glad you dig this last piece. Take care. WaveForm - Thank you, I will surely keep it.. So I did another render without the shaders, I hope you guys dig it too. Have a nice day.

Hello, A new character I have created, I will post a full bio later on. This 3D Character is also a real-time 3D character and screen shots are GPU real-time renders. I spent a bit of time making this characters real-time shader, I wanted a real Alien Skin look. Sculpted in zBrush. I have also rigged this character for animation. See more on my blog www.starrshaw.com Thanks!

Finally finished my "digital stop motion" short "A Victim of Duty" adapted from a story by the master of absurd theatre, Eugene Ionesco. Software used: ZBrush (modeling & retopo) and Animation Master (animation and rendering). Enjoy! https://vimeo.com/100828440

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A small update on my progress. Started with the dog mannequin and built out to make and pose the horse and dog for my scene. I'm only using them to develop the pose, not to actually control the geometry. At this point I was mainly considering which positions to hold the legs and the twisting and balancing of weights in their forms. After posing a basic frame, I dragged out some of the major muscle boundaries to represent the stretching of muscles between bones. I wanted to really try to understand some of the smaller details with the pose, like knowing which scapula is higher (a lifted leg hangs from the torso and the torso hangs from a weight-bearing leg), how much bend might be expected in those buried upper arm and upper leg bones, and how far under or away from the horse's center of gravity to angle the legs to create the right impression of speed. The horse barely lifts its legs off the ground, enabling it to hold itself lower and to allow for a slower but still playful gait. The dog is lifting and pulling with its neck and exaggerates its steps to imitate the horse (both are taking alternate steps with their front feet raised). The horse does lean in towards the center a little bit to give the impression that the horse is still moving quickly, almost as if lunging around the dog which is moving more slowly and consciously. The neck position is probably the hardest thing for me, especially with zspheres. Necks don't seem to bend too far out of their way and horses tip their noses down to look out from the side of their heads to see behind them (eyes on the side of the head). Most of that pivot is probably going to happen at the start and end of the neck, so I'll have to play with it to find something that seems to work best. The overall feel I want is to contrast the gentle giant of a horse against the proud yet small dog. Any suggestions on how to emphasize that even more (either in the pose or details) would be helpful. Is there any way to control zspheres so that you can create mannequin style connections (which has solid cylinders, weird tapered bits, and chunkier end pieces)? I can alt-click the connections to turn them into normal zsphere connections but it doesn't reverse. I saved out a minimized mannequin so I could build from that if I wanted too. DougJones -- I had the polyframe displaying the first subdivision level out of six (divided it early so I'd have the levels when it comes time to pose on a layer). For the render I turned polyframe on and then increased to the max subdivision level so it would display the wireframe smoothly. The lowest subdivision level has 1,917 active points. I keep the visibility and saturation controls for polyframe up on the top of my interface so I can mess with them from time to time. Don't know what I had them set to.

Hello everyone I've not posted here in some time and just wanted share a couple of images that I've been working on. This is the face of a future low-res character I'm working on and I wanted to do a quick test in vray and some displacements maps. I got some pretty good Advices on this one and I will sure as hell work on those sections as I go. 5.jpg 6.jpg Well this guy it is one of my favorites and one that I work the less on. It is inspired by the art of Starcraft, and I is my own design to fit that universe. Probably a couple of days a month is all I work on this guy, I'm not planing on texturing the whole thing is more of modeling exercise. Well I still hope you like it. 8_Zbrush.jpg 9_Zbrush.jpg 7_Zbrush.jpg This is my most recent muscle anatomy study and what can I say, you can never get too much anatomy if you are a serious artist. 7.jpg 6_Zbrush.jpg 5_Zbrush.jpg Thanks everyone and I'll keep posting as I go, I love how I can go back to my 2008s postings and I can see my improvements in my recent art, and how much I still have to learn. Man learning all this stuff by yourself is tough, Thanks god for tutorials lol.

Finished off this Blastoise model so I could move to another sculpt and to make more mistakes. This was a model I have been working on and off for a couple of weeks now. I am open for some critiques and advice. This is my first post on Zbrush Central and I am excited to be part of this talented community. -Darrel