Hi there
I was asked to post this thread to show some of my models done in my spare time in the past 6 months I have been a member of these forums and talk about how ZBrush was used. My sketchbook thread had nudity front and center first page so this is my new start. Everything done with Zbrush and 3DS Max. Many thanks to everybody on the forum for their advice and support and Aurick for the chance to do this.
This model of a Galapagos Giant Tortoise was done for practice modeling unusual anatomy and just because tortoises are pretty neat. I used a really simple basemesh and sculpted it into the general shape I wanted. I then retopologised the mesh in 3ds max 2010 and brought it back into Zbrush for detailing. I used some alphas made in photoshop and some scale-by-scale sculpting by painting masks. Once the shape of the scales was established I used some inflate and clay and standard to make them look a bit better, if I had used better alphas I probably could have skipped this a bit. I also used Damien Canderle’s excellent dam_standard brush for defining wrinkles and folds and the space between scales. The layered look of the shell was acheived by painting overlapping concentric strips using the clay tubes brush. The sculpt was 3 separate ztools, the head and legs, the shell, and the back legs and tail area, each was subdivided to around 6 million polygons. I exported 32 bit displacement maps for use in mental ray for max and did my texture painting mostly in photoshop making use of cavity maps exported from Zbrush along with Zbrush polypainting for various masks and colour blocking. I made a simple rig in max to pose and animate the model and I am working on a walk cycle animation at the moment.
Base mesh
Retopologised mesh
Sculpt
Sample Alphas
Some other models from the last few months.
These have pretty much used the workflow of simple basemesh > basic sculpt > retopologise/UV mapping in max > detail sculpt > displacement maps and render in mental ray.
A single mesh with an 8K displacement/bump map rendered in mental ray.
Posed in ZBrush. I painted some alphas in photoshop as well as using photographs of rhino and other animal’s skin to create alphas.
sculpt
All anatomy done completely in ZBrush, all costume elements blocked out in ZBrush and retopologised in MAX.
Concept sculpt for a friend’s short film, basemesh done in MAX, sculpted in ZBrush.
Thanks for looking:)
