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Question regarding Hard Surfaces Modelling and Concept Meshing

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#1

Hi all!

The past week I brought from EAT 3D the dvds “Hard Surface Modelling 1 & 2” but I’m having a problem with the mesh concepting part of the DVD_1. http://eat3d.com/zbrush_hardsurface (If you don’t have the dvd, you can see the 7th image from left to right to know what I’m talking about).

The dvd doesn’t give you any info of how the concept mesh was done, and since I’m still new to Zbrush (but loving it thus far :D) I really don’t know how could I start this mesh and obtain something similar to what they get at the DvD.

Any advice or tutorial which can point me to the right direction would be very appreciated! I have done a lot of modelling in 3ds Max but I really want to make my first high-end-detail model in Zbrush :frowning:

Thank you so much for your time! Looking forward for answers!

PS. Sorry if wrong section I’m still new here

#2

Hi, I just purchased the vids also & was having the same issue. Check out this

#3

Thanks! I’ll check it out!

#4

Don’t you know if there is way to acomplish the same results with dynamesh?

#5

Oh yer! maybe it is I don’t understand what exactly you are asking. “zb4_hs2_01_03_dynamesh_basics” of the 2nd video has what you are looking for maybe. But I don’t know perhaps it is the duplicating of the base mesh as a subtool and making that a dynamesh part that your missing.
In the second Vid # 7 he has the female character already loaded. He just duplicates that as a sub tool, makes it a dynamesh then starts building the armor out from that. If you are asking how he made the original female character, he didn’t. He imported it. It was created by Lee-Perry Smith.