I’m new to zBrush and i love your work! It motivates me sooo much, like “keep practicing and thats the **** you can do!”.
Just awesome and very interesting “How to” parts! 
Posting a nicer image. Enjoy!
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amazing!
Hello,
finally I got some spare time to complete the War Machine printing project. It was hard for me, but a real fun!
Compliments to Joe for his amazing digital sculpting job. It was an honor to print his War Machine.
Here a quick shot. Will follow other images soon…
Mattia
The sculpture is little more then 45 cm tall (approx 18 inches). the War Machine figure have 28 pieces assembled, puls other 18 on the rock (broken pieces of the armour) and 3 dozen of bullets. The rock stand was printed with an FDM machine (6 pieces assembed). Everything was printed at 0,1 mm, except the head, printed at 0,05 mm.
Printing time with SLA printer is appox 97,5 hours, plus other 67,5 hours for the rock (a total of 7 continuous printing days).
The black resin surface of the figure and props is painted and varnished (just few acrylic paint with dry brush - the darker color you see is the resin itself). The plastic material of the rock was painted in black, then finished with colors and varnished.
I’ve interpreted a little the original sculpture: I’ve increased some small details, too thin for the printer, and increased the left hand’s size. I’ve drastically reduced the dimension of the rock. Then I’ve choose a old-metal style color palette: hope Joe will like this version 
I still want to add some little wires and other thin detail, missed during the printing process…
Soon other photos and details.
Best regards,
Mattia
Guys, I am truly humbled and overwhelmed by the effort you’ve put into bringing my model into solid 3D printed reality. Having intimate knowledge of every bolt, panel, wire, and bullet in those files, the quality of the results is just stunning. With utmost gratitude thank you so much for your hard work, which I have no doubt will bring you much attention. Thanks to everyone in this thread again for all of the praise on this project- because of your appreciation and the support of what has grown to be literally thousands of admirers around the world, the War Machine has led to a number of exciting developments which I’m proud to announce… one of which was my being hired on Avengers 2. I feel it is hopefully the start of many good things to come, and as a token of appreciation I’ll be releasing a bonus making-of/tutorial on the creation of the rock cliff base, the War Machine teaser video end title, as well as a little bit about how this all culminated in my working on Avengers. That will be coming very soon.
Keep Zbrushing (and printing) fellas. Can’t wait to see what else you got You all ROCK!!!
Jaw dropped.
@Mattia - Very Nice man!! You did a stellar job!!
@Titan - a tutorial on the printing process is a great idea, I must get through a large project first.
hi, beautiful work, any advice for someone just starting to work as a generalist?
great work,
Hello Shags.
If it can be useful, here some points I’ve followed: http://formlabs.com/company/blog/2015/06/16/mattia-mercante-war-machine/
Best regards,
Mattia
thanks Mattia! fascinating, how much did it cost to print all up?
Hi Shags,
I used 1,5 liter of resin (more or less). 1 liter is about 135 € (without 3 failed prints and lot of supports the final sculpture weight is little more then 900 g).
PLA filament for the rock cost 60 € 1 Kg, I used 900 g, so…
This was a printing project done mainly for fun in spare time: I didn’t counted the tons of hours spent in my nights and week ends (well, maybe my girlfriend did, I should ask to her! eheheh 
)
Best regards,
Mattia
Hey ZBC!
It’s my pleasure to share with you an exciting project from last year for which I was hired after receiving the Top Row for my War Machine.
Avengers 2: Age of Ultron
Partnered with fellow CG artist Casey Reuter, we were the Zbrush team who sculpted the marble monument for the end titles.
As a token of gratitude to all those who helped make the War Machine such a presence on the web which resulted in my first feature film work, here
is a tutorial on the Zbrush workflow we used to turn Industrial Light and Magic assets into marble works of art.
Thank you Zbrush Central!!
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PERCEPTION VFX AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON CASE STUDY
THE ART OF CASEY REUTER
Download the manifold Iron Man helmet from the tutorial here:
3D PRINTABLE IRON MAN HELMET
PS: I will be posting my other big project from last year very soon; a Zbrush tutorial for 3D World Magazine. See teaser animation below:
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Download teaser animation asset here!
REVOLVER ZMODELER ZPR
Quick Zmodeler workflow timelapse:
Very cool! congratulations! They were amazing sculpts!
Thank you strob it was a heck of an experience. Learned a ton!
When I saw Avengers age of Ultron in the theater I was blown away ,what a great movie .
It was a special treat to see your fine sculpt at the end of the film , took one look and told my wife that has to be Zbrush .
I’d been wondering who did that very intricate sculpt and now I know .
awesome work JGundfast and Casey Reuter, your sculpt made a great movie that much better.
like an Easter egg for Zbrush addicts .
Congratulations on a much deserved opportunity to shine Joe.
Myself and Boozy Junior are fans.