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ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

Hello I know nothing of the possibililty’s of zbrush ,and and want to know if zbrush will work for me.

! can i take color from a 2-d pic and give them depth valu to get a 3-d rendering?
this is a pic of some art that I would like to make 3-d
as some might see there are some nice demon like shapes that can be found thruout this and my other pieces of art

now to show a demon I did dida neg of a part of pic to bring him out

if you you dont see it this might help

and can you get fine detail when rendering in alloy"like 6061 t-6?

I am wanting to make modeling to adorn working bike parts
like take a blank bike stem

and have the structure with all the drillings it needs but have a skin of zbrush demod figures or …

thank you all for the inspiration

bdcain

#2

For the first thing that you’re doing, you could use a technique called texture-based masking. Basically, any time you have a texture applied to a model you can use the Tool>Masking menu to mask the model based on the texture. There are several options such as masking by hue and masking by intensity. Once masked, you can sculpt or apply deformations that will then be restricted by the masking. It’s a great way to start building out details that are true to the applied texture. Your model will need at least as many polys as the texture has pixels in order to get the best results.

For the second thing, you will find it difficult to create those sorts of objects in ZBrush. But once you do have them as an OBJ (from any source) you can bring them into ZBrush and detail them to your heart’s content.