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Hero Guy.

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#1

Here’s another Zbrush guy with a little fiddle in Max and Photoshop.

Grassy Noel

#2

wow! excellent expression in that face!!
did you render in Max or in ZBrush?

greets!

#3

Render in max.
I build my characters in Zbrush, bring 'em into MAX an respline them so I can animate a low poly cage, then export that back into Zbrush to keep modeling on that custom mesh. I build morph targets then and do the final render in Max.

Grassy.

#4

Congratulations,your figure is very nice. Im reading about your steps and when you said" respline them so I can animate a low poly cage" could you details a little bit more to understand, i’ll aprecciated.
Thanks very much

#5

Sure. I bring the mesh inot max and rebiuld it in low poly detail using the ZBrush sculpt as a reference.

I draw slpines directly onto the Zbrush mesh and connect them into a new mesh which is lighter in polycount that I can then animate and subdivide to bring back to the original density. This way the polygons are placed exactly where I want them and not related to the original sphere that they were pulled from.

It takes a little time but I think it’s worth it. I can then paint a displacement map in zbrush and use it in MAX also.

Grassy

#6

Thanks four kindly and quickly attention.
Congratulations again for your work.

#7

Nice funny character. And very well-placed expression on his face. Could you be so kind and repost him with different profiles, to get a feeling of his overall characteristics?
:b4:

#8

Here you go. He’s a little different now as I spent the night building morphs in Zbrush. I’ll attach a DIVX animation test soon. (once I get it under 500k)

Grassy

:smiley:

#9

Thanks a lot grassynoel. He actually IS a funny character, and I liked his Latex headwear. It makes him very suspicious! :smiley:

#10

Here’s a morph target test.

Grassy
hero1.zip

#11

cool animation, i love how the eyes jump around realisticly(sp?). cant wait till I can do that in zbrush without needing another software package.

#12

love that animation! :+1: :+1: :+1:

  • juandel
#13

That’s a great face grassynoel! I agree with nukage. A Zbrush Animation Studio!! Dare we even dream so much? 50.

#14

Looking great GrassyKnoll! Do you have Max 5? What tool do you use to draw splines onto the zbrush mesh?? Thanks. :+1:

#15

At the moment I just draw splines onto the mesh with 3D snap set to vert and face and edge. I then attach them together and use a free plugin called hspline (made by habware) to set the same number of knots in each spline. I then use crosssection followed by surface (set to one level). Ad a little push to inflate the mesh a touch and add a meshsmooth modifier to the resulting mesh. I adjust it in or out to match the original mesh with the push modifier I added earlier.

There is also a plugin called glue from Itoo software that projects splines onto mesh.

Hope that helps.

Grassy

#16

hey Grassy, AWESOME pic! i love your style! i went to your website and i can c that u have quite a bit of experience. it shows! i would love to see a zscript of one of your modeling sessions, it would help a ton! i m still trying to get the hang of things in zbrush. thanx! keep posting!

artboy :eek:

#17

Wonderful!!!

cameyo

#18

Thank you all for your comments. I am working on some animation that I hope to post in the next few days.

Grassy

#19

Very nice! I will be trying something similar with Animation Master once I get my computer back. :frowning: Great inspiration! :+1:

#20

Here is an update of my hero guy. I built the head in zbrush and animated it in MAX. All the morph targets were made in zbrush… Cool.

I have a new animation test with lip sync on my site…
web page

Grassy N