I was going to just practice relief sculpting with this one but, as always, I decided I also needed to practice the next phase of production and so on until I had accidentally spent all week on it. I've got a folder full of interesting portraits sitting on my desktop and this was one of my favorites. I thought it would work really well in relief since everything was in the same plane of perspective and it was already framed and flattened to a photo. I tried to use the same mesh throughout so that I didn't have as many faces on the back as on the front (which happens when you dynamesh) and so I could use divisions but this eventually led me to constantly fight the geometry as I tried to get the most out of each subdivision. In the end, the only place that was really lacking geometry near the final passes was the man's face which turned out fine anyway. The hands and faces were the main focus for me and I had to push and pull for a very long time to get them just right. Even if they look fine from the front, the fact that the top plane of the hand is shallower than it is tall gets complicated with such organic forms. It is probably much easier to completely avoid detailing until later but still use a higher subdivision level so that you can carve clean planes and edges for later. I also found that if I didn't enforce limits to the depth it just wouldn't work at all. When I tried pulling his knees out a smidgen it made his head look turtled down onto his shoulders. I did have to overlay the picture to get the main proportions a few times, looking too closely at details tends to make it hard to see those. It's a challenge just to render reliefs sometimes. You really have to force the materials and balance the physically accurate with the cavity and matcaps to get something that both shows the details and gives a sense of a real object. This one's mostly a depth render so you can see more or less what I've done with it. I kept some of the render passes on to keep it interesting but you get the idea. And because I was messing around with it, here's a more coppery material. Lastly, I was keeping some progress renders so I turned them into a quick gif to show you that it really does look pretty hideous for the first fifty million hours and then it just sort of magically turns out when I make the detail pass if I've done my homework and created a good base to work with. I didn't look up the source of the photo beforehand except to make sure I had the biggest copy of it but it's documented as "A Veteran with his Wife" by an anonymous photographer. They've got more than enough expression in their faces to easily make up your own story for them though. Here is the original.

Hello Guys, here's the new project we worked on here at Techno Image. We used Zbrush for Character Modeling, sculpting, texturing, BlendShapes and also for some props. The production took about 1 month and 15 days. Heres the spot: And here's some BreakDown. Here's The Print Version. For more details Check: www.technoimage.com.br

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Hey everybody love the new forum style.. I am currently working on a sculpt based on my favorite comic guy... SPAWN.. I made a quick clay render in vray of where I am at the moment. Still lots to do in details of the armor, cape, need to add some chains etc etc. And of course make the pose more cool!.. any tips and critiques would be more than welcome.

wow!! thank you very much! so proud to be featured inthe top row. can´t believe brian20 - thanks! i just add a photo behind and applyed slightly lens effects for his light pieces. the rest is all colors from the light sources in marmoset. nagulov- thanks a lot! yeah...i´ll work a lot at that character. especialy the legs and hands that need refining heres some more stuff

cg_xiaoqiang- thanks! NickNitro - thank you very much! the final renders was taking from marmoset toolbag 2 Marco Tiny - thanks man! Max-tx- thanks a lot my friend! to tell the truth i really didn´t expect to be in the top row. its like win the lottery. abração meu velho! Im really thankful to the moderators and community. i love ZBC! heres my finals for the challenge

Hello guys this is my new work that was done during the workshop Bruno melo Modeled with 3d max,ZBrush,topogun,uv 3d max and textures Photoshop,ZBrush I hope you enjoy! based on the artwork of Riiick http://riiick.blog.me/40182265565 http://eduartchne.blogspot.com.br

hey A very small update, nothing extraordinary. Color/render version of the last guy. First One rendered in real Time in Marmoset Toolbag Second One rendered in Max with mental Ray thanks General.jpg Final_Marmoset.jpg Final_MentalRay.jpg

Hello everyone! Time to start my own Sketchbook. I´m fairly new to ZBrush and on top of that I started my first female sculpt Since anatomy is such a hard thing I´m happy about any comments and critiques. Thanks!

the sweetest sculpt i ever did, from last year's project (CLOCKWORK VFX for HASBRO MONOPOLY JUNIOR commercial) sculpted in zbrush rendered from maya/arnold C712aNrjBUo