Jan. 21, 2012
Thanks David :)…Just having some fun while learning by exploring with some new to me lighting techniques, while I take a short break from the boxers…Will be getting back to the boxers shortly…with fresh eyes.
Another light/shade and shadow study done this morning…This time I stuck a 3d model that I sculpted a few months ago into LightCap in ZBRUSH.Still pretty new feature to me, but I luv it, and the possibilities it affords.
Glenn
ZBRUSH / Corel Painter
Oooh … I think this is my favorite so far! Just curious what kind of light cap did you use for this?
It’s good that you are taking a short vacation from the boxing … you will come back to it with vigor and new insights! 
Cheer, David It will soon be Hair Time!
Nice lighting SD
I’m also curious how you did it.
One for sure, neither lightmat or multiple lights respect a ray tracing - like method.
One single light can be close to this, one only. This is why I export multiple passes with a single light and combining them in Ps. Everything else is rather a matcap trick.
Wow great images! I really love your dragons.
Jan. 21, 2012
Thank You David :)…The LightCap is just the setup that comes when you press LightCap…I just get rid of the little manniquen figure that’s on the grid when you turn it on, and put my own 3d tool in their…then play with the sliders in LightCap lights menue,…then press BPR…Only one layer on these. The material is the standard skin shader #4…it’s not a mapcap…It’s in the bottom section of the materials.
Thanks Michalis…:)I just like the cast shadow effect, so I get that effect in ZBRUSH with the LightCap feature, then export the image to Corel Painter. In that program, they have a lighting feature with lights that act the same way as stage lights act in a theater…You can direct the lighting to a specific spot on the figure or scene to get your focus point that you want the viewer to see more than anything else in the scene…You can make the lights come to a pinpoint beam of light, or you can expand the beam of light so it covers a wider area…You can adjust the softness and intensity of the light beam, and you can control each light beam individually and have as many light beams as you desire…Same as the guy controlling the stage lights in a broadway show or any theater does…Plus you can also change the color of each light when and as desired, as you light the figure or scene or both.
What you can’t get though in Corel Painter are the cast shadows that you can now get in the ZBRUSH LightCap feature…So that’s why i’m combining the two programs at present…Just trying to get the best that each has to offer, to get the effect that i’m after,…which is a painting…with Caravaggio and Rembrandt style lighting…I’m not an animator …I’m a painter, and look at lighting from a painters perspective, not an animators or sculptors perspective…Each has a different need and use for the way they use lighting…Mine is as a painter.
You can probably get the same results now as i’m getting using just ZBRUSH alone, with the new LightCap feature,…but i’m just more familar with the Corel Painter lighting system than I am with the new ZBRUSH LightCap feature at present…and I like only using one layer most of the time when I work…Just lazy I guess…
DLangley…Thanks Man :)…Hey, a fellow Bostonian…Small World eh…
Thanks for the feedback guys …Very much appreciated and welcomed.small_orange_diamond:)
Just fooling around this morning with this DynaMesh boxer taping his hand…Wips for him posted on the previous page in here…Top one is ZBRUSH LightCap only,…Bottom one is after exporting it to Corel Painter and adding those stage lights that I talked about above…
Glenn
ZBRUSH / Corel Painter
JAN. 21, 2012
Just a little further with this little lighting/shade and shadow study that I started this morning.
Glenn
ZBRUSH / Corel Painter
Hey SD
Everyone knows “color dodge” combined with a gradient in Ps. I hope so LOL
Try some real lighting. As possible.
Hey Michalis…No Color Dodge involved or Photoshop…Pure Stage lighting…Corel Painter…Get the book Dynamic Light and Shade by Burne Hogarth, and you will see that there are many many many kinds of lighting,… and they are all Real Lighting…Stage Lighting being one of them…Creates the mood which always trumps the accuracy…The accuracy can always be painted in later,…if really desired and felt needed that is…
Glenn
Jan. 2012
A little further along with this light/shade and shadow study of a boxer tapeing his hand.
Glenn
ZBRUSH /Corel Painter
JAN. 22, 2012
Another light/shade and shadow study this morning of a boxer tapeing his hand.
Glenn
ZBRUSH /DynaMesh/LightCap/Corel Painter
JAN. 22, 2012
Revisiting a piece that I was working on a few months ago this morning, and doing a little light/shade and shadow study on it.
Glenn
ZBRUSH / Corel Painter
Hi Glenn, This one is very interesting … looks like you included everything including the kitchen sink! :lol: One of my abstracts is made almost entirely of toilets! Cheers, David
Hi David :)…Yep …Most of my works in here are just a program learning tool and device, and something to practice on…That last piece posted started out with a relief sculpture done on a flat 3D plane primitive tool, and sort of evolved with my other 3d figure tools that I was working on at the time being thrown into the mix…:D…The same learning system that you are doing now with your abstracts…It’s a great learning system …me thinks I’m just using some of my older works now to study some lighting effects…Funny how much the lighting can affect the mood that a piece projects…Always amazes me,and still fascinates me…You being a photographer for all of those years, and after seeing your photo’s,… well i’m sure that you know what i’m talking about…
Hey, anyway…Always a pleasure having your input and your visit in here David…Thanks Man small_orange_diamond:)
Glenn
http://brainforest.cgsociety.org/gallery/
P.S…If you get a chance to, check out this artist works,…he uses alot of photo’s combined with painting in his work,…He has a really interesting style, to me anyway…Might be of interest to you also in some way…who knows…:)…Anyway, the link to his work is posted right above here…Enjoy.
JAN. 22, 2012
A little more done this afternoon on this light/shade and shadow study.
Glenn
ZBRUSH / Corel Painter
Hi Glen, Thanks for the link! Interesting but a bit to much bling for me … like Dali on acid! 
Hi David
Dali on Acid…LOL :)…Now there’s an interesting thought…:D:D:D:D
JAN. 23, 2012
Working on a couple of lighting /shade and shadow studies this morning of a boxer tapeing his hand.
Glenn
ZBRUSH / DynaMesh /LightCap / Corel Painter
Hi Glenn, looking good! This boxer looks a bit “long in the tooth” you must have been modeling him after me … good body though! :lol:
One minor suggestion … it looks like he is wearing slip on sneakers to me, knowing that you are a perfectionist, perhaps hightop boxing shoes would be more authentic and more pleasing to the eye. Just a thought!
All the best, David
I like this last one.
Somehow, a slave in chains comes to me. Not too far from your subject, I hope so.
Jan. 23, 2012
Thanks David :)…You are right about the shoes small_orange_diamond:)…I’ll have to find some good refference…can’t remember the details of them and how they look…been along time…
About the long in the tooth look…I am thinking of an older boxer, past his prime kind of theme for this piece.I think it might add to the mood/feeling that i’m trying to project with the dark lighting…lights out/last call kind of theme.
I watched Requiem for a Heavyweight with Anthony Quinn the other day to get some inspiration and feeling for what i’m going after in this piece…Great Movie on the reality and darker side of boxing.
Anyway David …Thanks Again for the input…Highly valued, and really very much appreciated and welcomed…Thanks Man small_orange_diamond:)
Glenn