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Z-BOT (Robot WIP)

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#1

Hello everybody, i want to share some images with you… if i have time i work on a Robot in ZBrush… a kind of Robot you can see in Cartoon or in Games (Mech i think)… it is not ready yet but maybe you find it usefull… here is a picture of the feeds: i dont know exactly, how the rest will look like but here are some tests i have made: http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200405/user_image-1083800492nuu.jpg here is an image of some parts i used for the robot: http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200405/user_image-1083800595zix.jpg if you want to see how easy it is to make such a tool like the thigh (hope it is the right word) here is a litle script for you: robot_skript.zip hope you like it… bmuser_image-1083800421xkd.jpg

#2

This is good stuff. Looking forward to watching your script. Very refreshing to see things other than heads and organic creatures being made with Zbrush. :wink:

#3

excellent stuff BM, happy to see some non-organic stuff.

#4

Hi Big mike
Very cool meccano :sunglasses:
That’s will be terrific with a texture appropriate
:+1: :+1:
Pilou

#5

Very cool mechanical parts…awsome robot coming in a near post for shure :smiley:

#6

:slight_smile: Nice Job and excellent details :+1: :+1: thanks for the zscript.

#7

Verry cool!

Thanks for shareing :slight_smile:

#8

:sunglasses: Robot and concept

Thanks for the zscript :wink:

On your alphas that you show are you creating them with raster or vector?

Are you creating a library of zscripts for parts (kinda a parts-kit box of goodies)?

#9

sweet a lot of tools and goodies… I think once its done its gonna be great! :smiley:

#10

Very cool BigMike, looking forward to finished and textured robot!

Thanks for sharing your script of workflow, always great fun to see how the minds and hands of others create!

#11

thanks a lot for your replays…

it would be great to see a lot of robots here… :slight_smile:

bm

#12

Wow! This is looking amazing! Can’t wait to see the finished model :o)
Thanks for the script! - Baz

#13

Amazing pictures! I love this. can’t wait to watch the tutorial :grimacing:

#14

Big Mike, you are doing a big work…big compliments :smiley:
Bye
Leo
P.s.Do you use the MMarker tool to put on the canvas?

#15

Extremely cool, Big Mike. I was wondering if
it was possible to use Z-Brush 2 to make mechanical things. You answered with a hell of an example. Keep up the modeling, I can’t wait to see it finished.

Dickie

#16

Awsome work Mike. Thanks for the tut too. You tought me a use for focal shift. Before watching your script, I never touched the thing.

Amazing work in your gallery too. Looking forward to the finished bot.

#17

thanks you zb2 for making things like this possible. the leg part is over 500,000 polys, and it flys on my screen like butter. But without that many polys, its a real pain to do detailing like this. :sunglasses:

:small_blue_diamond: note, that if you wanted to animate this bot, you would have to make the additional step af keeping a low res version of the part before sub-dividing to where PM works well. that way, you can go back to the low-res cage, generate a displacement/normal map with all those details, and add it to the low res version for animation.

ADDED

playing around with it, was able to even make a lower res version of the leg. The script made a low res version with 8000 polys. at first I was thinking “that’s still too many for super fast anim”. My mistake, ZBrush thought of my dilema already with the “Reconstruct Subdiv” button, which only activates at the lowest SubD level. I used it a few times, and made is as low as I wanted. and NO DETAIL IS LOST.
:grimacing: so nice, makes me want to cry

#18

nice robot parts, can’t wait for complete robot

#19

This looks cool! Can’t wait to play your scrip, and look forward to an update!

#20

Love it! From watching you script I now “GET” ZBrush. Thanks so much I cant tell you how much this solves my probems.

Thanks again.