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Oldies But Goodiesā¦
Had time on my hands waiting, so made good use of it by going over hi-lights of the first 65 pages here
(that I have printed out and put in a 3-ring binder)ā¦so much cooooool info!
So decided to continue mining the gold, and am up to page 76ā¦a great page!
Iām seeing it for the first time, and love the alien slugs!
BTW, are you feeling warm & fuzzy about Blender yet?
Take it from one who once scoffed & cursed at Blender,
give it time and it will grow on youā¦like a beautiful coral. 
Iām feeling a lot calmer about ZBrush nowā¦still fuzzy about a lot of
stuff yet, but getting there, thanks to you.
Anyway, got new inspiration(s) today, and want to combine your techniques with
Glennās greebles on a TopMod meshā¦then animate it in VUE (if the render times are
reasonable). :)
mealea,
Welp.
No.
I canāt stand it, but I will say this:
I hate using Blender but I love it for what it is: a real toolā¦I will learn, or keep trying to learn Blender.
I have to admit, I donāt use Blender for modeling, but do love to create physics sims or abstract animations with it, and like to use all the different renderers.
Blender was on my bucket list, and got very frustrated with it. But at some point, I hope youāll actually enjoy using Blender. It was something Iād put off for years, having already invested $$$ in other apps.
Itās the only app that inspired me to create a website for it, which I hope will benefit others.
TopMod is awesome, and I have yet to try this greeble pack, I will get around to it soon I hopeā¦
Yeah! Amazing what you can do with a few clicks! I think it may also help me with ZModeler.
The idea of you printing out this monstrosity of a thread is both alarming, flattering and amazingly cool, the ink and paper must be costing you a fortune!
Yeah, I do need to add more toner! :lol:
But well worth the small cost & effortā¦really, itās condensed to only a handful of pages of pure gold!
And Iām only 1/2 way! =O
Really, anyone who has not gone through each page is missing out on cool art, inspiration, and a wealth of great info & tutorials.
mealea,
on p79, #1173
āThis Is a Gearā ??? Best Use of ZB Gear Primitive Award! 
Would look great in teak, walnut, cocobolo, jade, marbleā¦even sandstone.
Iām fantasizing, imagining it about 500ft high, partially buried in the terrain
of a world circling a star in a galaxy in the Hubble Extreme Deep Field,
an enigmatic sentinel, like the Sphinxā¦awesome!
On this very cool image, p80, post#1188,
did you use brushes to create the spine, belt, etc details or displacement map?
Delving into KeyShot and pondering Blenderā¦
What a friggin trade off, ease of use for vastly less options.
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One last image:
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awestruck & speechless. =O
Fantastic im playing with panels and loops at the mo and this inspires me greatly
Striking! Really niceā¦ and elegant as usual.
Thanks Paleo!
heheheā¦ looks like we posted at the same moment!
Beautiful.
A Mealea style masterpiece.
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āeros anikate mahanā
google search about it
re: TallZoomedCrushedForZBC.jpg in #2006,
did you use brushes to create the spine, belt, etc details or displacement map?
Neither, I used the selection tools (Control Shift Click and Control Alt Shift Click with Rect and Lasso) and then use the Disp Slider under Edge Loop in the Geometry pallet.
I have been finding ZModeler very amusing because I have been able to do all the stuff it does, with a few very notable exceptions for quite a while.
I use this method all the time, for me its better even than panel loops which can look similar but results in all sorts of weird geometryā¦
Both those images use the same thingā¦
Making the gear is actually on youtube I think.
Yep! Found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JOhCjeJ1dU
I did another one like this with a lot of cephalopods but used the spiral, that was a lot of fun too, but the video is too bigā¦
Very clean linesā¦great modeling & form.
Love all the robots, expecially 1.82! :)
re: p 85, #1268 Gigerās (left one?) & the AutoSpank2000ā¦OMG! 
re:
pondering Blenderā¦
Actually, why bother with Blender? What do you want to do
in Blender that you canāt do in ZBrush?
You play ZBrush like Goya plays the guitar!
Beautiful.
A Mealea style masterpiece.
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Can I second that emotion? :D:D
well its still fantastic this programme makes you weant to delv in and create
@Megcal:
About Blender, and why I think I still need itā¦
Rigging, animation, rendering (its better than KeyShot by far) lighting, and as you mentioned, the simulation stuff.
To me Blender is a tool, albeit one that I donāt enjoy using, whereas KeyShot is a toy.
I didnāt know you were interested in animationā¦Iād love to see any.
Seeing Sintel changed my mind, and gave me the incentive to try harder to learn Blender.
LOL! Just like your art did for me vs ZBrush!
Alsoā¦
I thought Goya was a painterā¦
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/authā¦a.colossus.jpg
STOMP STOMP STOMP!
MOOOO!
iSi, Francisco! I was referring to Francis the classical guitarist.
Same comparison either way!
@michalis,
It could be applied to my war with Blender, if I win eventually I will love Blender as much as I love hating the fight to learn it!
I know you will! :)
I know you will!
HAHAHA!!!
Thanks, and so does Michalis!
This wont render fully it takes too long.
Oh my, oh my
now your going crazy
fantastic
Very nice Mealea! I really like the image in post 2011 too!