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[groBoto]

Love that latest update, especially the first image! Some very interesting experimenting goin’ on here! !

Thanks Etcher – I admire your work… the rigorous approach and the obvious joy you get out of the process.

Yes, constantly experimenting… and 'tho exploration and discovery are my favorite haunts, I’m hoping to carve out some time to further develop a few pieces. That image you mention is a step in that direction.

Here’s a unrelated piece… going back to work the FlexTool/SeamNet Mesh/Hard Surface Sculpt trail. Originally done for the CGS version of E.D.A.H thread (Every Day an Hour… started by Jack Zhang and recently ported to this forum).

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[groBoto]

More stuff from my posts on the CGS version of E.D.A.H thread (Every Day An Hour).

It has been a good exercise. I have no desire to hone some sort of systematic approach (that’s the end of art in from my point of view)… however, the simple rigor of ‘sketching’ everyday can serve to expand and improve base skills.

In turn, that allows me to loosen up and provides more freedom to experiment, explore. In that way, practice can actually help free one from their usual/comfortable paths.

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Just a follow up on one of the busts from the previous post… pulling SpaceJaw in a more abstract/mechanical direction.

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[markkens]

Darrel, you 've really gotten the 1-2 punch of Groboto and Zbrush hitting the mark.

You’d get another thumb if there was a Windows beta:D

[groBoto]

Hey markkens - Thanks… the daily riffing is helping me find a rhythm… and yes, we also badly want (need), to get the Win Beta out.

Another ‘Every Day An Hour’ sketch. BTW, posting on the parallel CGS version of E.D.A.H and not the ZBC one – only because I have this fairly active thread here and don’t want to double-post.

Approached this one a bit differently. Simplified the GroBoto ‘BlocHead’, output a lower density mesh, then some heavy Smooth Brush in ZBrush – going for a more organic feel.

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Continuing with this Creature…

Went back to GroBoto and created simple body/tail and arm/hand base geometries… brought those into ZB and combined them with the earlier-sculpted head as subtools.

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[markkens]

I’ve always liked that alpha-masking trick you use to put raised texturing on your surfaces…could you drop a how-to around here somewhere? I think you said at one point you were using Groboto to make the alphas?

C’mon 3.0…

[groBoto]

I’ve always liked that alpha-masking trick you use to put raised texturing on your surfaces…could you drop a how-to around here somewhere? I think you said at one point you were using Groboto to make the alphas?

C’mon 3.0…

Hey markkens,

Thanks.

Here’s more than you probably wanted to know… but once I started to describe, it became clear that a bit more info was in order.

First… I just posted some text in my GroBoto/ZBrush Synergy thread (link below), describing the best ways to generate Alpha images in GroBoto. I think that speaks most directly to your question. Everything described there is available in GroBoto v2.

I use GroBoto-generated in a variety of ways when sculpting… some of which go beyond texturing in the traditional sense. More recently I’ve been using them together with some of our v3 features to sculpt complex surfaces. The attached images describe all of that.

…plus one more view of TroutPrawn that give a pretty good look at results.

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Darrel

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[gwainbarek]

love your style, looks awesome

[Prosthesis]

I’ve been following your Groboto threads for a bit now. I really enjoy seeing your process and the synergy between zbrush and Groboto.

I did download the trial and I have to say I wasn’t able to grasp the UI well enough to get much going. I might give this another stab when I have more time. As I see a lot of value in what Groboto can offer.

You can really generate some very interesting shapes very quickly and as you’ve shown the meshes import beautifully into Zbrush.

I’m not really into the steam punk thing but a lot of the creations really have a cool steam punk feel. If I were into such a genre I’d def. be using groboto to come up with some base meshes.

Is their a nice reference on the use of Groboto?

[markkens]

Darrel, you have earned yourself small_orange_diamond …and two full weeks reprieve from “3.0” sniping:D

GREAT tutorial! Thanks…

[groBoto]

Prosthesis - Thanks. I do feel the synergy starting to flow… should only get stronger as we refine tools and OBJ options. The Steam Punk feel is probably a combo of my own style, and the simple nature of GroBoto’s current primitive set (soon to be expanded). You’ll probably find completely different uses/styles.

Please check my GroBoto/ZBrush Synergy in a day or two, I’ll post some info & links regarding resources (I try to avoid getting into extended GroBoto discussions here – not the right place).

markkens - Thanks. I’ll try to do more… again, especially on the GB/ZB thread.

Here’s last night,s, late-night, doodle.

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[groBoto]

love your style, looks awesome

Thanks gwainbarek…

No time to pursue more ambitious stuff, but trying to keep my ‘hour-a-day’ sessions going.

A sketch building on yesterday’s ‘BoxApe’… looking to be a bit less abstract, while remaining quite stylized.

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Same daily practice drill, GroBoto to ZBrush… this time more purposeful – have really learned a lot in the last week.

Just getting started with this one – had to cut my session short yesterday.

I’ll post an update later today.

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[groBoto]

Here’s that follow-up (see previous post).

… again, only putting those time-spent notes on these because I’m posting them on (CGS version of) the ‘Every Day An Hour’ thread… normally I don’t pay much attention. Also I’m a ZBrush slug - tend to meander.

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Thought I’d build a full figure (of a sort) around this bust… a BioMech Flyer.

Here’s some preliminary work.

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[SpiritDreamer]

Really like the direction that your heading in with this last creation posted.
Can’t help but think of the creations of Patrick Woodroffe when I see what your up to in your own works and creations…If you haven’t seen his works yet, then I highly recomend that you check them out.
I only have his book …Hallelujah Anyway at present, but I used to have his other ones too but they got lost in the shuffle along the way…ALL of them are great, and great sorces of inspiration…He was way ahead of his time…precomputer age work, but with an eye for what was to come and become…a reality…
Just google his name,…Patrick Woodroffe… and you’ll find his works…
KEEP INSPIRED AND INSPIRING…

[markkens]

My copy of Mythopoeikon is “chained to the bookcase”. Sorry you lost yours, Spiritdreamer.

Darrel, Woodroffe calls his style in some of his stuff ‘meteorodynamic’; I think that’s what Spiritdreamer is referring to.

[groBoto]

Really like the direction that your heading in with this last creation posted.
Can’t help but think of the creations of Patrick Woodroffe…
KEEP INSPIRED AND INSPIRING…

My copy of Mythopoeikon is “chained to the bookcase”. Sorry you lost yours, Spiritdreamer…

Hey Guys,

Thanks – just beginning to get somewhere with all of this – and still have my love/hate thing going with 3D CG, all to clean/discreet/defined. I know what I need to do to move beyond that… disturb the 3D stuff images with digital paint… will find the time somehow.

Sure I know Patrick Woodroffe’s work… and Rodger Dean, and others that inspired a kid just out of high school… our little gang of artists all dreamed of doing LP covers for a living.

Found just a little time yesterday to play some more – feel like I have a good sense of where I’m headed… 'tho, for me, the key is to never be to certain.

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Darrel

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Another from my daily ‘BlocHead’ play.

This one took some curious turns during sculpting. Those moves gave me some ideas for mixing up these blocHead explorations. – somewhat different GroBoto setups that hopefully will seed some new paths.

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Darrel

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