I totally agree with you! BTW I have been on your website… So you are a real sculptor ! Do you plan to use zbrush to make some kind of 3Ds sketches before sculpting?
Basically it would mean that zbrush could become a professional tool out of the CG community?!
Actually I love 3D. There are sculptors who who do use 3D to give their clients an idea of what they will be getting, but I have not (or not yet). That site hasn’t been updated in a while I really should do something about that!
Do you use anyother programs or are you getting your feet wet with ZBrush?
Since this is a chance to show off I am uploading a couple of jpegs of my real world sculptures! 
No zbrush is the first 3Ds appz I seriously try to get into! I used to toy a bit with the 3ds Max Studio but it’s far too complicated for me. Despite the fact I used to be an art student nearly a decade ago, CG is a total new world for me to discover.
The funny thing is I used to sculpt too many years ago!
But the creation process was really frustrating! You are not allowed to make any mistake from the start to finish. I guess I am not patient enough unlike you!
Are you specialised in wood sculpting? Which other materials do you use? Stone? Marble?
No, just clay cast into bronze. With clay you can make mistakes. The only problem is that you do not have multiple undo so if you make a mistake you have to fix it the long way. Once I was working on a piece in clay while at the same time working on a project on the computer. When you do the eyes in clay you have to be pretty careful, my hands kept making the automatic motions for command Z everytime I wanted to ‘undo’, but there was no keyboard!
I understand too well what you say! Basically, this is the very reason I have stopped sculpting because it become very frustrating… especcially for so talentless a person such as me!:lol:
3D yeilds more instant results. Once you become used to Zbrush you will find that you are much better than you ever dreamed. The trick is to keep at it! Inspiration is only the beginning the rest is craftmanship. The standard for quality that you find in special effects and computer generated images is flawless! I can do good basic work on the computer, but I’m not that good yet. I also don’t get to practise as much as I would like. Just from what I’ve seen, you recreated that armour very well. For you it is just a matter of time; probably not that long.
Yeah, one of the coolest things about Zbrush is being able to alter large masses without killing all your detail. It’s nice to play around with different looks that would destroy a lot of your work if you were doing it in clay.
~Mike D.
True, the only drawnback is that you cannot touch or walk around what you have made! Who knows, maybe before we leave this planet they will find a way to do even that. This is truly an age of magic we live in. Imagine what our ancestors would have made of all of this! and its so much FUN! 
Well, there’s always stereolithography!
It’s still a little expensive, but the prices are a lot better than they used to be.
Thats GREAT! It’s not that expensive believe me. Its costs a hell of a lot more to cast clay into bronze! Can you tell I’ve been living in a cave? :rolleyes:
What is stereolithography?
Don’t know. :o They have a link on thier website which explains how it works. It looks a little rough but good. I remember seeing something years ago when they took a man and scanned his head into a computer and then lasers cut a model of him out of styrofoam. It was an insanely expensive process for a pretty poor result. I had no idea that anything like stereolithography existed, but I thinks it great. Lord Rugal, your english is pretty good!
Really? Well… I still can’t match yours! Actually I am not very confident when I have to communicate in English! It’s probably because I am French and we are definitively not good at all at learning foreign languages!
But it’s still enough to express my arguments on an English speaking forum!
Well if you keep posting this often you will soon be absolutely fluent. To be honest, I would not have questioned your english. It is very good. 
As a matter of fact, stereolithography could replace traditionnal sculpting in the next few years! Take for instance the improvements realised in CG over the last 5 years; it’s almost unbelievable! We are just at the beginning of an era in which CG will become ever more widespread… I would have never thought I would have been able to realise such a thing as a 3Ds armour a few days ago. :rolleyes:
It is amazing! We really are very lucky to be alive today!
I wish I would be already fluent! It would be a tremendous help for my career!:lol:
Damn right! But the best exemple is internet! We can communicate in real time from different countries!
Well, if you don’t defect to the French forum you’ll have plenty of chances to practice! Just do not look to me for spelling - my typing and spelling are both terrible! :eek:
I will reluctantly sign off for a while! 
Hopefully us mac users will get lucky before tomorrow!
I’ve never really chatted in a forum before. I have enjoyed it. Thanks!