Hi again! I bought this Zbrush essentials book that lightened up a little bit about detailing in zbrush so here’s a another favourite character of mine that I experiented with the new skill set I got from the book. Hope you like it!
Hopefully I now got these “cliches” out of my system and start doing some own stuff now… 
you have a cinematographer’s since of camera. good stuff
Hboybowen: Thanx! 
Oh and forgot to mention about the workflow! So base models done in max, detailed in zbrush (duh) and rendered back in max with mental ray and comosited in after effects. Smoke done with fume fx and all hair/ fur stuff with max own hair & fur system.
Baked the normal maps (Didn’t need the displacement map cause the base mesh was so dens.) in max.
Texturing in photoshop and used xnormal to create the cavity maps from normal maps. That helped a lot in texturing phase and added lot of detail with a click of a button! Would be great if everything i cg could be that easy! 
For skin shading I used this customised sss skin shader that I found from master Zapp’s website and cloth shaders were modified from some pre made “cloth shaders” I also found from Zapp’s website.
For dof I used after effects becuase rendering this all with my uber powerfull computer took like 5 hours so decided to leawe the tweaking in post production…
Rendered the beauty pass with all hair & fur stuff, then ao pass an lastly the smoke pass and composited them in after effects.
I post some more images later on.
Looks great! Wow, you are just 25, many nice things will come, keep going!
Baz Mazur: Thanks!
Here’s some print screens from zbrush and couple of ao passes from different angles. Last image is the reference that I found from the interenet and got this all started out!
Let’s see if I get any shaded versions rendered out…
Love the dramatic lighting and the black and white feel in your last few pic. Well done.
I like that you can’t see his eyes… scary.
Very cool! Awesome expressions…very nice dramatic feeling
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Thank you for your kind comments! I think it’s a some kind of a finnish thing that I like those images a bit dark and melancholic, just like us finnish people!
And yes, hiding those eyes with shadows makes him more creepier and lunatic, I tried to achieve this “reaper” kinda feeling in this image.
But here’s shaded versions in another angles:
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And here’s the composition phases:
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that’s very cool. great tension, light , atmosphere.
great
nice mood in this. I like the strong contrast of light and shadow.
Really sinister! The mood, lighting, poses and models are spot on. Top work mate 
Thank you all!
Time for a little break and then let’s see what else I can come up with
Whoa, year is almost over and I got this urge to doodle something before the year changes because I have been so lazy recently, so here is a wip of a couple of days anatomy study from a book called “strenght training anatomy”.
Nothing special, just desided to post something before I start drinking my ass off. So happy new year for all!
Jouko! Looking good man - as I said I loved the wolvie along with the rest of your work. Last study is great. Love the back of that arm - looks perfect!
Have a good night and stay safe!
