I have just finished my first scene squid vs shark. Hope everyone likes it.
I am still not quite there yet with creating the final illustrations using zbrush. I have had some major issues creating this image. Firstly anything over 5 million pollys and machine slow down. My issue has been that a squid has 8 legs and you need lots of detail to get all the suckers and little sucker teeth. The sub tool for the legs was 12 million So I was going to use decimation master to bring down the count but this crashes the machine also she you decimate how do you keep the poly paint do you have to create UVs as every time I decimate the model the poly paint vanishes. So I can’t seem to keep all the detail i had for the legs so i had to delete the highest detail level which lost some of the really nice detail.
So zbrush wizards, what do I do here very stuck, do i retopologise the model but how do I get the polly paint of the model as i have painted this before i have done this.
So next i have the issue of wanting to put both models in the scene and then pose to create the battle. How would you pose the squid as The grabbers at the front are really long and when you use transpose you can’t get these to bend or curl round nicely. Would i put a zbrush rig all the way down the grabbers at the front, as i have no idea, i use the move brush and this really pulled the mesh everywhere. The only way i could see to get both models into a scene was to use sub tool master and merge all the sub tools together for both models. Next i created a new document inserted the squid next I then appended the shark. What a mission, is there easy ways of creating scenes with 2 or more models in?at the minute i am thinking not! If this is the case how are we creating final illustrations do i have to create the scenes in other packages such as Maya. The thing is as they are only illustrations at this point do i still have to make the final scene in Maya.
I would really, really, really appreciate some help with my queries as it is giving me some really headaches, and as i am still very new to this I would like to start to make really cool images but at the minute i am a little stuck on the process.
Thanks for all your help in advance.
