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You can import image! 
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You can of course use Zbrush for make any volumes! 
Eneroth RailRoad by Eneroth free
You can simulate any steam or electric rail even roads!
But the more funny is ttha ou can use it for animate anything on a path! 
Just hide the rail (or not) 
Little trick when you create a new volume : make the 7 clicks asked in diagonal front/behind, left/right …else that unsuccess!
This new volume created, it can transport anything!
Just put anything volume inside the groupe with the Menu Window/ Onliner
Another little trick : for inverse the way of displacement,
put the speed cursor to 0, click the double arrow, put the cursor at another speed
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My little test
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Example more elaborated (not by me)
New version 0.99.u12
Speed portrait by Taron
I’ve talked about figuring out proportions first, getting the lay of the land, so to say. Then gradually to work inward to the details themselves, but always keeping an eye on their relation to the surrounding elements.
In this example I found a picture of the aging Spock on the web. I figured he would make a nice subject.
- I started out with a simple sketch to get the placements and proportions right.
- Then I blocked in rough shadows mostly just to confirm that my eyes are not fooling me and to make appropriate adjustments. The warp tool helps amazingly on this quest!
- Some more details in the sketch for more of the same reasons and some more mild warping.
- I then started to block colors, also to get a feel for the whole thing “filled out” really.
- Lighting experiments, color experiments and further mild reactions to the proportions and smaller details based on painted areas.
- Now I look at the whole thing differently, squinting in a way and also trying to ignore what my brain wants to see, but what really is happening in terms of values. I did turn the original photo black and white and raised contrasts to see where my brain was fooling me. It helped in the process of detaching my eyes from details again, which makes one mistake values in relationship to the whole. It’s like as if you look at one bright place where there are darker spots and you gravitate towards making those darker spots as dark as the side of the face that is in shadow, while this isn’t true at all.
Here’s the last state it’s been in… not sure, if I will continue, though. It was just to make a quick example.
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/e spews coffee all over his 30 inch main monitor and starts coughing the remains at the surrounding Sammy sungs! Nuff said :D
Well, almost Nuff said. Great tut Taron and superb sketch to paint. I will definitely be giving Verve a try. Very inspirational.
… by Taron with Verve
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