NickZ Beta Blast. (8 movies added page 32) April 2013

[Bangers]

Hey NickZ, I’ve just been watching a lot of your tutorials on your vimeo channel, they’re really helpful and well explained, I’ve learned quite a lot from them.

Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge, cheers dude

[looprix]

Besides being a great sculpt the shapes and design are working well! (the alien with helmet)

[nickz]

Thanks guys for the kind comments! Here is a little more work on the alien. Not much progress because I had to optimize the scene…I was getting up to 60 million polys…crazy. So thankful for decimationMaster!

[loki_22]

looks awesome!!

[nguhoc_pro]

Love it…!

[chalkman]

Looks amazing Nick! Looking forward to the next step!

Cheers, David

[monstermaker]

Nice!

[SNARK]

Howdy, Nick! Question: On page 30 you have some Maya UV videos. There is no number ‘003’ posted. Is there a number ‘003’? Just wondering. Thanks. ~S.~

[nickz]

Snark,

Sorry about that, I had the naming convention all messed up on those videos. So I went back and re-named them all, but they are all there!

Thanks for helping me get this straight!

[SNARK]

Thanks, Nick. Great vids. Have you ever done a series on how to create an illustration using models made in ZBrush and comped in Photoshop? Something with more than one character, some props, a set and more than one light source? ~S.~

[nickz]

I’ve been looking into ZBrush for it’s hard surface abilities after watching a bunch of the ZB Siggraph recap videos.

I must say making shapes this way in Zbrush is a lot of fun. Just a WIP but I thought I would share! )

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[nickz]

Here is something new that I am working on. I am currently finishing up the purely “hard surface” modeling on this, I plan to post that up after I finish things up.

This is the more organic part to the model creation:

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[Santis]

This is really cool Nick love it! Thanks for sharing a great time lapse!

[nickz]

Thanks Santis…looking forward to see what you create for 2014!

[groatman]

Awesome stuff as always, Nick - definitely looking forward to the final result!

[remcv8]

Awesome Timelapse NickZ!!! Don’t get to see enough of your work!!!

[Bangers]

Hey Nick, I’ve just been watching your latest vids you put up on vimeo, I’ve learned so much from them, so many great tips & tricks I never knew about, much respect, Cheers :]

[Corpus]

awesome vid and updates!!

[nickz]

Well Pixologic has done it again. Tonight they showed off the first changes in modeling for ZBRush 4R7. I never felt comfortable hard surface modeling but the latest additions to ZBrush in terms of panel loops have really changed things for me. I can now think of things as form, shape and lines. So much fun.

Here is something that I am working on for a UE4 level. I can’t wait to see the new changes in 4R7.

[nickz]

Here is the main character for my new UE4 level called Incubation. It’s a little baby alien!

Here are some current WIP shots of the level inside of UE4.

I’m hoping to have all art wrapped up in the next few weeks and release this as little art experience.

Hope you enjoy!