Hello everyone! I have been around with Zbrush ever since 3.0 and it has greatly evolved into something awesome. However, with all the awesomeness and video tutorials I feel as though things have just gotten so flooded with hows/whats/wheres etc that if you are new or trying something different within the app, you almost have to learn a new method completely. I know that last comment is extreme but I am not sure how else to put it. I have an idea though about how to possibly remedy this.
Artist Workflow profiles
Lets say your new but have knowledge of how to do things in 3D/2D whathaveyou and are looking for a solid workflow to assist what you know. What if some of the top artists came up with a “Shell” which would include a UI that is limited to their workflow, not just set up in such a way, with menus labeled as “This is where I do this” Then with the ctrl however function have the profile give a description of what that specific artists use is of that tool.
It would be possible to put something like this together on your own for sure, but what if there is a better method you may not know of or maybe how another artists uses something you might not have thought of. What method speaks to you the most. Those kinds of statements would help out a ton since zbrush is such a massive program.
So you could break it down into say:
Film
Commercial/TV
Games
Printing
etc
With say 4 or 5 artist profiles that would have a setup that would work for these types of things best. OR even break it down into Hard Surface Profiles and Organic Surface and how they relate.
Even just splitting up the app for organic/hard/uv/painting etc would help.
I am primarily just wanting to start a discussion on something like this to maybe get some more answers in general. It’s just sometimes I feel like im pushing more buttons then making art at times. I could make art faster in sculptris then zbrush sometimes which to me seemed like it was just more simple in a way. So thats where the idea of artist profiles came into light.
Thanks all!