This is a character I’ve been working on for a new Gnomon DVD on Alpha Texturing, as well as a character for my Tethered Islands Project.
small_orange_diamondsmall_orange_diamondsmall_orange_diamond you own aaron!! good to see you here, big fan of your work.
This was a rough model that was made in XSI, then formed out and detailed in ZBrush. Also I did all the maps (color, bump, spec, trans) using ZBrush.
As well as the costume. The final render was in XSI. 
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I will also be covering all of this plus more at Siggraph
can you tell me how to get the tutorial on this…and maybe some info on it. I it mainly maya or mainly zbrush?
Wow, this is really amazing. Top row material for sure coming from the great artist like you. The final image rendered in XSI is purely amazing!!!
Yongkiat k.
Looks like another Gnomon DVD heading towards my letter box…
Excellent work Aaron, but you know that already…
No an Roman Emperor
Pilou
What can i say, Aaron?? Another jewel 
really amazing, man !!
excellent work ! no other words !!!
5 stars
Yeah ! Nice to see U here Aaron ! A great job there ! Cool character !
I have seen this in the “coming soon” area, it will be released on July 27th.
awesome !!! cant wait for the DVD, love gnomon stuff.
Absolutely inspiring stuff Mr. Sims! Just have to say that XSI render engine sure makes things look sweet. Now if we can only get Pix to revamp the ZB render engine 
Very cool! Thanks Aaron!
Ryan
Hi Aaron, Cool to have you here
I’m simply a big fan of your work … big inspiration to me 
Dizzy Boy
Aaron can you explain how you are using trans maps? Are you painting them to break the trans up so its not uniform?
LIke your style
Your work is awesome! I had thought of doing all of the maps in ZBrush, but I hadn’t tried it out. Now that I see what you’ve done I’m marching strait back to my characters and giving them some real quality maps!
Thanks!