Patience is a virtue, or at least it used to be.
Apparently my first set of words right after mammy and daddy were “I wan ehh”
So I watched the ZBrush summit live, or at least 80-90% of it.
First time for me to watch anything live on the net, and I loved it.
That for me must be something similar to what it feels like for sport people watching a game of sport over the course of a weekend.
Pixologic got lots of great video covering these type of events now, and ALL the brilliant artists showing us stuff. I’ll have to watch them all again, they’re very enjoyable.
Patiently looking forward to any new versions or point updates coming out, Pixologic and the pixologicians always fail at one thing, and that is to disappoint.
I so wish I’d bought Zbrush at 1.55b (i think that was the version of the demo, only occasional sporadic dabbles for years) instead of buying in later at version 4R2. Cant believe I would have had ALL those v2 v3 v4 updates…flipping heck.
Lots of 4R6 is still brand new to me as I have not used the hair/fur, micromesh or whatever yet, (but I most def will) as I’m just using a handful of brushes for basic (but intense) “manual” sculpting. Though I hope they don’t get rid of any “old” features like 2D, 2.5D functions, or the Paintstop 2d drawing part and whatever, as its pretty cool to have all that and the original stuff in there somewhere…in the drawers over by there like.
(I used to love watching the normal maps etc. being generated on the purpley blue model in the viewport)
Texture layers with some blendmodes would be cool.
And if Pixo want to mess around with character animation stuff, that’d be cool also, though I don’t care if they do or don’t.
The “present your model” animation functionality is cool enough as it is for presentation and bookmarking key views.
Basically whatever they do is always cool, and revolutionary and ossum.
btw, I’ve only just found out a bit about PBR - (Physically Based Rendering)…whoa. That’d be cool. The ossumest ossum.
One thing that I wish Zbrush still had was the depth cue/depth of field function, yes I know its still there and it only works with the BestRender function (which I think has a better “Look” than BPR) but it used to work on BPR on version 4, just before 4R2.
I know DoF is doable and tweakable with BPR filters and all that, but it was nice and pretty much instant for a quick wip image export or even a finished image. I really miss that mundane and simple feature. Simple mind you see.
Other than that, if Pixologic was no more tomorrow , I’m very happy with zbrush as is for many years to come for as long as we both shall live.
Having said that, I just hope Pixologic dont sell out to giant evil monolithic borg type companies who might enhance a tiny little and then kill it dead because they know whats best for the artist and customer according to the whim and bank accounts of the company and shareholders etc, like the TRON legacy boardroom meeting about the new OS.
Sorry…uhh… oh Yeah, hope Pixologic dont sell out for mega bucks, although you couldn’t blame them if they did, having wads of cash fanned under their nostrils. That would be a heart wrenching day for many, sorry, uhh… EVERYONE.
Anyway I’m off back to conducting and orchestrating a mass exodus of mostly unfinished wip doodles to throw up on here in a short while as it LONG overdue.
Anyone else notice the spellchecker doesn’t recognize the word zbrush?
