I3ear, I recently completed a sculpt of Audrey II from the movie, Little Shop of Horrors, and I must apologize for not giving you credit for inspiring me to attempt it. I saw your posts here and immediately went to Zbrush and started sculpting forgetting in my old age what got me started sculpting that one in the first place. Sorry 'bout that, but I love the plant!
ahhhhh … alien plants… ahhhhh droooool… :D:D
will you be textureing this?
Have not been on in a while been busy with homework, sorry for the delayed response
Thank you Voodoodad! I checked out your gallery and think the Audrey II kicks a$$, nice work 
I will go on the thread and comment soon. It is nice to hear that my plant inspired you to do such a cool piece. This plant started as a doodle of a geometric flower that my older sister did on her homework about 15 years ago. I actually have the evolution of this plant throughout the years. this is my first attempt to make it 3d.
Tyrellcorp- Thanks! I will be texturing this but it might have to wait until summer 
As soon as it is textured I will add it to this thread. Checked out your gallery too. I like the textures and colors, my favorite was “inside a zsphere”, it looked very fleshy and the environment was cool.
Thank you everyone for the kind words!
okay so now I want to paint this monstrosity. Does anyone know how can I take this one big dynamesh and separate it into pieces that I can give different materials?
You don’t necessarily have to split it into separate subtools. You can mask and do mrgb fills or just material fills. In my experience that works pretty well, especially if you set your material blend radius up a little. Or you can do an autogroup on the whole thing, keep visible the parts you want to fill with whatever mats and repeat for each material. There’s probably a million different ways to accomplish this, but I’m thinking doing it by polygroups would be your best bet.
I tried to auto group but it crashes every time. I feel like I am doing something wrong. I have missed all of the lectures on the subject 
So if I use masking is it possible to have different materials and colors on a single mesh? Also, can I save a mask selection?
Thank you for your help!
You can use different mats and colors on the same subtool. I mentioned doing it by masking but you can actually paint mats onto your mesh as well, although in my experience that always looks like crap. You can also mask an area and do a group by mask. You might try that and see if it crashes. I’ve had troulble with the polygrouping options myself, but it’s about 50/50 as to whether it crashes.
I did try that and it crashed too 
I will test out the other options. Thank you!!
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Masking it off seems to work best for this one. Thank you very much!
Thank you voodoodad for all of your help! Here are some stills, turntable will be posted when vimeo is done uploading.
your staging is very natural, nice work to bring your creations to life. 
i gotta say, if you can render this on vray or anyother high tech renderer this scene will be amazing
here is a turntable. Does anyone know how to make this render look better? I do not have the $$ to spend on vray. Also my Maya would at least feel like crashing if i tried to import it.
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I have not posted any images from above. I remade all of the leaves. they are more leafy and less blobish
This has come out so great I cant believe it.
You have done a wonderful job.
As far as the render goes it looks great to me but a lot of people who know more about this stuff then I do recomend Blender and specificly something in Blender called Cycles.
Blender is free so that may help some.
I cant wait to see what you get up to next!
Wanted to start adding my zbrush sculpts to this thread. So this will from now on be where I post my work.
Here are a couple of sculpts that I did in the last couple of days. Trying to get faster at this because these were done in a few hours and that is too long.
They are unrelated, but added a sketch of Julie since I want to create her too. May spend a bit more time on her though. I know these are not great but I am practicing!
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