Hi Guys,its my very 1st post here,i am a student studying 3d modeling in 3dsense media school. and this is my term 1 assignment.i call it "Rock dino" this is also the 1st time i use bpr render pass to composite.i feel the final image is a little too dark. advice and critics are very welcomed so i can improve more. Thanks!

With just Normal Maps Gun Wires Textures (Diffuse and Normal Maps) Enjoyed creating this character from my favourite Horror Film. As usual upon reflection there are things I could have changed or done differently but happy with the result. Thank you for viewing

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.

Hey guys~ Glad you liked it~ The video is actually a recording of the undo history of the subtool so I dont control the camera movements, the original recording got corrupted. I'll try setting up another video sometime thats more informative. @accesskb I actually dont use projection master or place alphas or anything like that because its too much cleanup work in my opinion and as I'm an abstract artist I dont need to get exact and discernible designs out of things. I do everything by hand with the occasional exception for things like complex holes or screws where its just more efficient to place the part instead of trying to sculpt it out perfectly. To make the band in the top left I just used the Orb Crack brush. You can find it by searching it on the forum. @beneath_the_surface Try adjusting the sensitivity of your tablet I use an intuos 4 so I'm not sure what you can do with a bamboo but that made all the difference for me~ I also use a LOT of custom brushes. As you may have noticed though, they are all different versions of clay brushes with settings mixed to work with my tablet to help me overcome my lack of drawing skills. I do use a few custom alphas for stroke brushes though, simple stuff like diamonds or trapezoids. Its a good idea to set up you're tablet and brushes to match each other and compensate for what you might have trouble with and accentuate things you like~ And here are my finished mens bands, I say finished but I'm still playing with the one on the far left.

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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

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.