Hi Tomas… thanks for yesterdays webinar… short and interesting… best of luck with course…
Ziggy
Hi,
Fantastic and inspiring work!
I love the pocket watch in particular.
You mention not having much experience in rendering?
Have you ever considered using ‘Keyshot’ (https://www.keyshot.com/) or ‘Marmoset Toolbag 2’ (http://www.marmoset.co/ ) softwares to make quick realtime renders of your meshes?
Looking forward to more posts!
thanks guys.
actually pixelmitherer I avoid rendering for a business reason, I find renders create unrealistic expectations from clients. there are some beautiful renders out there, they will never look like the object.
but lets take most the silver pieces I produce.
I use a low polish and sulfur them, try to find a render that will show what that looks like. show a render and show the part they will never be the same. but show a blue model they will look at the shapes how how pretty the images is. In a car render they can stand back and go oh its a car… people buy jewelry for very personal reasons and get minutely picky and weird over tiny tiny thing.
Really great work!
I never thought about Zbrush for jewelry!
WishList for Jewelry Design in Zbrush - Master Class:
modo Module title something like: 12 things modo does better than other quad modelling software.
Hundreds of CAD jewelers already have T-Splines and want to know the value of spending $1500 for modo instead of just using TS. I bought modo because of you and want to know how to use it better to make jewelry block-ups. I also use TS but it seems slow for me or impossible to make certain block-ups I envision. I was impressed with the celtic knot webinar showing the speed of the block-up with hard edges.
I will be taking your class but a modo module will be important to me.
Just signed up and I’m looking forward to the class! Fingers crossed that you’ll be including the Rhino to Zbrush GoZ.
I decided to REALLY learn Zbrush last year because of this very thread… So yeah, excited is an understatement!
- Jamie
Thanks for the insight!
I have a couple more questions if you don’t mind answering them…
I noticed you have intricate entwined parts on some of your rings. How do you sculpt these parts, do you mask different areas as you work?
Are your zbrush images posted here the same as the meshes that are sent to be milled/printed?
What I mean is; do you have to exaggerate (inflate or sharpen etc) the details for the printed version at all?
Thanks.
Guys I have followed Tomas for a few years now, and he has never turned down a question, has helped me a lot…
I follow his route of Modo and ZBrush and its fool proof…
Enjoy the course! The creativity is up to you…
Ziggy
The first Jewelry Design webinar was great! I learned a lot. There is so much information.
the class was a lot of fun
10 more weeks
woohoooo
Mr T… good to hear its going well Enjoy.
hi TS when I searched for jewel design in zbc I saw ur thread ur works are awesome
small_orange_diamond… then I wathched ur whole thread in the same day… mind blowing…I recently started working on zbrush about three months before… I just sculpt and I am thinking that gem stones cannot be placed on the 3d model done in zbrush but U proved it was a false thought… but I searched everywhere and in google but there is no tutorial about that… May I know how to place gemstones on 3d models in zbrush If so how should I maintain the gem stone size in zbrush to fit like in rhino or some other s3d jewel software…or shall I place gem stones on a mesh using matrix ??? Please help me… Thanks in advance…
Yo T.S.Wittelsbach, first of all I want to thank you very much for answering every question in here 5 times at least, I have gone over every page of the thread to make sure these questions haven’t been asked before, I went zombiemode somewhere around page 30 so please forgive me if I missed it, I really hope you will be able to answer these for me:
How do you get the stones in the right shape and size?
How do you make sure you leave enough space for the stone when the model is still digital?
Also, How do you lock a stone in place after you’ve set it in the ring?
I hope to hear from you!
Thank you in advance!!
-Edit:
I was also wondering why silver is your material of choice (it seems to be, since most of your stuff is made out of silver)
-Edit -Edit:
How did you get that red glazing effect with that big -crown-like- ring you made?
Thijs
As so many have stated
inspirational
Quick question if you dont m8nd sir
is your revo a 4 or 5 axis
also can you run a simulated tool path in matrix? Noticed it outputs a revo file ext and not txt so I couldn’t have a lool at the gcode
looking into a desktop 5 axis myself for hobby
Also can someone explain to me what this decimation is about
why must the poly count be reduced for machining er… kinda lost with it
because I exported a stl file from another program at .0001 inchs tolerance so I could give it some texture in zbrush but the poly count was like 50 million and couldn’t divide it at all to do any crisp detail
Hej Tomas
Liked the cross back comment of ``controlling others but mastering yourself´´ thats a good one.
Your using some matcaps…
I think the top one might be mah dirty blue.
Both of them seem to show detail very well
The other one that looks like a kind of patina bronze? post page 30, is it in the matcaps library?
whats is the bronze one called?
Thank you again for sharing,
Some information is very hard to come by and just pictures of your work area were a great help,
That great picture put my mind at ease that my humble computer is not alone.
That pocket watch
stunning
a one off piece?
I don’t see it for sale on your website
sorry it’s been so long for me to respond… I’ve been insane.
now i’m unemployed i will try to give a little more time keeping up. argh 
sassas1209 - I have some base models of the stones there are many charts that give the exact sizes. im not sure if there is an easy to get those out there. but you can export stones from any of the other jewelry programs as stls. I build all my base models in MODO. but i would place the stones in zbrush after you sculpt in zbrush. I hope that is an answer to the question.
SliceHow do you get the stones in the right shape and size? - from a carat chart the geometry is out there but you can export them from matrix or other jewelry programs.
How do you make sure you leave enough space for the stone when the model is still digital? - I flip the normals on the stones and project the ring to the stones. there is a little vid on my Facebook education page.
Also, How do you lock a stone in place after you’ve set it in the ring? you cut a seat in the metal and push metal over the edges to hold it. there are many videos on stone setting out there.
I was also wondering why silver is your material of choice - I like the fact you can oxidize the surfaces and get the visual contrast
How did you get that red glazing effect with that big -crown-like- ring you made? - it is traditional enameling
BOATDUDEGUY - and to the many complimentary comments, thanks a million. the revo is a 4 axis i believe 
it makes the code and i have no idea what any of it means lol sorry im an idiot on many fronts lol
Barnacles - yes mah dirty blue is the first. hmmm looking here i dont see that mat … ill look in my old library and dig it up i like that one a lot, but yes it is from one of the mat libraries that are out there.
beneath_the_surface - it is one of a kind but it should be for sale at greenlake jewelry. i’m surprised it’s not at the inkmetal website
here are some of the pieces i designed for William Henry. more images are coming and i will also post pics of the models 
hope you enjoy… you can see how over-polishing is a curse i have to deal with all the time. look at this skull compared to the ones in the next post and the difference in remaining detail.
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