Pigsy - Journey to the West

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Hey there!
I planned to model/sculpt from a rough sketch I had. It’s my first go at zBrush at will like to share my current progress!
At the moment, there are lots of “blobbiness” problems, anatomy problems which could have been better if I sculpted from T-pose, but I didn’t because I didn’t know how to re-pose!

So yeah, here’s a summary of my progress!

Pigsy - Journey to the West
Pigsy / Zhu Ba Jie
Chinese mythology character

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my current to-do list! after consultation with my prof!

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Hi guys!

I think this Pigsy project is coming to an end.
It’s one of my first serious attempts at zBrush and I have learnt much from this exercise!
The most obvious one is that I should always model from T-pose. Though my target wasn’t an animatable character, I think beginning from T-pose will still save me a lot of time trying to fix proportions.

It’s also probably a good idea to stop using Dyamesh at some point because I cannot sculpt properly when the mesh begins to intersect in Dynamesh.

Here’s a wishlist for the next zBrush:

1. I really wish GoZ had options to set the export path to my maya project.
2. I also wish I can choose the default material to be exported to maya, the default is a blinn. I got so tired converting all the materials to mia_material_x one by one. I stopped halfway and invested time in writing a simple script as a workaround.

I’ll probably have a few more renders to come and it’s a wrap!

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more renders

[SammehSAMURAI]

Pigsy is awesome! nice dynamic pose and a lot of character! very nice indeed!

[system]

Thanks for your encouragement SammehSAMURAI! I’m motivated to do another piece! Perhaps during my school break! Thanks again!

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Hello guys!

Here a few more renders and a video turntable !
Made an anatomy sculpt along the way too!

It’s a wrap!
Hmm… Now I wish I can have him rigged and animated.
I shall work on an animatable model the next time! Of something else of course! =)