Digitaldecoy's ZSpace

[Ecthelion]

This seal is friggin cool man.

[digitaldecoy]

Thanks for all your kind words, guys!

Sorry, no huge thing for this update - only a small doodle I pimped up a bit in photoshop.

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Maybe an interesting side note: the base for this one was a Unified Skin Mesh. I modelled the form with ZSpheres just like you would do with metaballs and covered everything with the Unified Skin. That comes quite close to volumetric sculpting with which I’m experimenting at the moment. I built this junkyard here in 3D Coat with the volumetric sculpting features and I would really love see this feature in future ZBrush versions:

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It reminds me a bit of the junkyard in front of the goblin town in ‘Labyrinth’.

[AVTPro]

Extraordinary work and workflow.

Thank you for sharing is very inspiration to so my work brokendown in a methodical way.

[digitaldecoy]

And another little sphere doodle for the dump:

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[remcv8]

I’m always checking out your thread for more progress. I love your ideas!!!

If you have some extra time could you share a bit of your technique in tree making. You make the best Z-Brush trees.

My ideas that I would like to express are that of trees or should I say tree characters. Kind of Treebeard-ish Green Man-like characters of nature. I spend a lot of time sketching them out on paper, but haven’t been completely satisfied with anything that I’ve tried in Z-Brush.

Tips would be most useful and appreciated.

[mcteapot]

amazing work, truly inspiring! Would love a better demo of your work with trees and the deco brush.

[Sazdum]

Great thread!

[sko25]

nice man really cool characters

[digitaldecoy]

Thanks for all your comments! Unfortunately, for quite some time now sculpting was not a big part of my life. I did an ‘Introduction to ZBrush’ workshop last year and created a very quick and sketchy sculpting as a demonstration:

[<!--[attach=184274]ZBrush_Kroetenoma.jpg[/attach]-->] I needed something for compositing a render in Photoshop and didn't care about details or surface polishvery much. That said, it amazes me everytime again how quick you can create something from scratch in ZBrush. Nowadays I'm working on an online graphic novel. I hope to be able to publish the first chapter in the next two or three month. I recently had to work on the main character and in order to get a really clear image of him, I decided to make a concept sculpting. The graphic novel is based on my painting ["The Journey Begins"](http://www.daniellieske.com/exhibitions/the_journey_begins/exh_journey_begins.php), so perhaps some might recognize the little guy. [<!--[attach=184277]DLCOM_WWSGN_ZBrushSculpting_03.jpg[/attach]-->] I also took the opportunity to play around a bit with ZBrush's layers. It's a very convenient way to mix the deformations of the different face regions and combine them to different emotions.

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The graphic novel will be fully painted but the concept sculpting really helps me to get a clear picture of the protagonist in my mind. If you are interested in the project, you can visit the project overview exhibition on my website: The Wormworld Saga Exhibition

And if you want to keep in touch with the progress of the project, you might be interested in my blog at [email protected]

[julien_n]

heyyyy off course i recognise this boy, i loooove the work you are doing on the wormworld, great to see your work here, keep it up!

[nickz]

I really love this style, can’t wait to see your finished work. I was doing some 2d work as well but 3d just keeps calling me back, I just love to sculpt. I have a feeling you just might get a kick out of it’s well!

thanks for sharing your work again!

Peace-NickZ

[Al.Tintop]

i like this one a lot. your painting skills are great. i really like your black
and white concept drawings and photoshop works. you do a great job
on this. keep it goin.

[dorimster]

Great works! I like the colors in your renders and comps…

[ghost_rider]

Love the Kid Sculpt! He reminds me of the kid from Never ending Story.

[KrakenCMT]

Love your work, Daniel! Truly great stuff!

[Eiad]

Very creative work. I love the junkyard really cool stuff man.