Hi all, I've been lurking around for quite some time and thought I'd start up a sketchbook on here as ZBrush is one of the primary weapons in my arsenal. Lately I've been delving into ZBrush's rendering features. Takes a bit of work to get the best results, but the quality is good. Enjoy!

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.

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Thanks again Dragon So here's this weeks lunchtime sculpting Batman Bust, definitely enjoying doing these!! and here is Bruce Wayne

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

Timelapse video on youtube: http://youtu.be/zKgHr_mIDRA my cghub page: http://pierrebenjamin.cghub.com/ Concept Art by Adam Ford, Speed Sculpt done in 3H30 in zbrush with dynamesh and zremesher by me;-) Video link : http://youtu.be/zKgHr_mIDRA More renders on my Face book page here: http://goo.gl/eokNdu Adam Ford page here http://adamscreation.blogspot.co.uk/

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

Update model (fan art) of Thane Krios from the 'Mass Effect' franchise. Modeled,sculpted and textured in Zbrush 4R6, basic HDRI render setup using Vray for Maya. Still working on this guy but suggestions are always welcome. Hope you guys like it

There are few solid facts about 3D artist Andy Jones. Things we know, traditionally trained as sculptor, turned 3D artist admits a bloody revolution. His mandatory service twisted a once lighthearted sculptor into a brutal engine of poly destruction. He lives in the deep woods where it is rumored that he has developed a computer that runs on fear. URL: http://www.andyjonescreative.com

Ioannis Karathomas is an Environment Artist who works at Zenimax Online Studios and is developing the new next gen MMO The Elder Scrolls. He has worked on Diablo 3, Starcraft 2 and World of Warcraft while at Blizzard Entertainment developing his experience in both ingame modeling and hi-res cinematics. Ioannis knows the value of production and always strives to create the best work possible. URL: www.jkarathomas.com

Haven't posted in a while. Sculpted in Zbrush - Retopologized with appropriate maps and viewed using Marmoset Toolbag 2. This is a game-ready creature head. Piece is not finished but I wanted to send it out for thoughts and crits. Hope you like it!