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!
BTW, do you know lightwave? Wings 3d? Silo? Are they worth it as a complement for zbrush?
It was really fun to chat with you!
Good zbrushing!
I use lightwave. People say some of the others are better, but I saw some examples of displacement rendering in Lightwave that looked very good. Maya looks friendlier at first, but I have found lightwave easier to use. People have been saying very good things about Carrera and 3D Studio Max. One of the older hands could probably give very good advice.
Good Luck, and have FUN!
Cheers!
have fun too!
Good zbrushing!:lol:
Great friendly thread.
Beautiful job on armor!!!
Looks Good, I am new to - I think this would look cool if painted like the rusted idol project - make look old and warn - I have to start the mid section next myself
Lots of people are finding both Wings3D and Silo excellent modelling companions to Zbrush. They are ideal for box modelling characters and tweaking edge loops more easily than zbrush’s daft hide the polys method. The two are quite different in some ways but both are generally considered pretty easy to learn and use by people who are arty rather than techy.
Wings is free so why not give it a whirl? http://www.wings3d.com/
Silo has a free version and a demo version. The full version is cheap to buy compared to other 3d software. http://www.nevercenter.com
Hope this helps. Nice modelling on the arms BTW!!
Wow, this is really cool. Very beautifully modeled and rendered.
It’s not that hard to do something interesting with Zbrush…
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I made the armour from the tutorials… Thanks a lot Strike!
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To help myself with the arms, I have been using a drawing book (“Dynamic Anatomy” written by Hogarth (ever heard of the comix “tarzan”?) as a reference. I can highly recommend his books (especcially Dynamic Figure Drawing and Drawing Dynamic Hands), which are very inspiring! You will find a lot of drawings about the human body that can help a lot for modelling;) .
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The material used for the skin was found in a thread of this forum:
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The armour material is basically a reflected map with some tweakings. If you look at the picture with great attention you will recognize the textr 01:D !
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The color balance was done in Photoshop LE :lol: (you can buy it for 50 bucks / Euros with a nice Wacom Volito/Graphire 2). Pour les français je l’ai acheté sur Cdiscount.fr
Anyway I quite pleased with the results… Not too bad for a noob…
Have fun… and many thanx for your comments!