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Crystal/Ice Asteroids?

Hello Peoples,

I’m trying to sculpt some nice ice asteroids but alas, I’m new to zBrush and I haven’t entirely decided how I want them to look yet.

Still, having found some reference and considering a few ideas on which direction they could go I dived straight in with the results posted below.

I guess there are a few broad directions:

  1. Crystalline, hard edged and sharp.
  2. Slightly melted with smoother edges.

I started from the same low poly mesh for each and mainly used the MalletFast brush with a square alpha, flat brush, pinch and smooth. I watched the tutorial on the PlanarCut brush with both plane and line settings but I’m finding it difficult to get both a nice faceted look and really sharp edges.

Any tips/tricks and comments/advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks! asteroids.jpg

http://www.pixologic.com/docs/index.php/New_Brushes%2C_Settings_and_Behaviors#Clip_Brushes