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ZbornToy (Taronites)

This is beautiful work! He looks like he would fit right in the movie Pirates of the carribean 2. I look forward to seeing more work from you.

I took a few minutes to try your plugin Taron with my frog, it was easy to use and fun! I was able to come up with an image quickly.

SWEET, I LOVE that reply, haha! Fantastic. That hopefully encourages people to start playing with the demo already a bit more! If you like, don’t hesitate to share your experiments with me. I’d almost be willing to make a tiny little mini contest to give away a free copy to the winner, hehe! :smiley:

Just say a word and I’ll start a thread with it! I mean, that should certainly involve Zbrush to a strong degree! For everything else, I’m pretty sure I couldn’t hold it here, but I assume that most of you would do Zbrush stuff anyway! So it would be perfect! A little ZBrush ZbornToy contest! …hmmm… just a little thing, really! So don’t go all crazy. It’s just $179 anyway, so well… let me know!:sunglasses:

Fabrizio (digitalfreaky) -

I love this image! It really got me pumped for the plug-in when Taron showed it to me (and got me jeoulous too).

As far as the plug-in, It took a little while for me to fully wrap my head around all the things that can be done with it. It really is a powerfull tool for compositing…I learn a little trick every day with it.

I noticed a total lack of AA around a lot of edges. Is there a way in AE to do AA? I’m not to familiar with AE…
Hey Lemonado! You can easily get rid of the crisp edges using a matte choker in AE as well…I forgot to do that in most of my tests.

thats 6million polys of pure INSPIRATIOn. I have shown it to everyone at my college in my classes. Seeing a image on that in the day your having changes it drastically. You get this drive for 3D that is ultra inspiring.

5 stars

Fantastic model, render, comp DigitalFreaky :grimacing: :+1:

as for ZbornToy - Dll’ed your plugin Taron, and wiil definitely check it out when I get a minute or three… looks amazing!!

Chris

I made a PDF of the ZbornToy Tutorial if anyone is interested Click Here

From the sounds of it, this ZBornToy is a plugin for aftereffects… that doesn’t work as a normal renderer. For instance, bear with me here cause I’m somewhat confused, doesn’t it merely work by compositing several passes from Zbrush together? Or does it actually work like a normal renderer? Right now it just sounds like it comps passes together and that’s it…

If you check the website, that’s www.taronites.com, you will find answers to your questions. The website has a section that’s very clear and easy to understand, where all the features and capabilities of the Plugin are explained.
Besides I encourage you to try it because it’s just damn amazing.

To Meats Meier: I’m really honoured to receive these comments from you! I’m one of your fans! :wink:

Gotta run now, girlfriend needs shopping:cry:

It’s a full on rendering engine! It uses depth images as geometry! In principle that would make everything a ‘relief’, a height image, like a carving into a wall, if you know what i mean. But the featureset allows for some ingenuity to go beyond the appearance of a relief!

You have full on rendering of light, shadows, full on shading including actual translucency, refractions, caustix and even environment illumination! And all this as close to realtime as it gets. But you might want to just go ahead and try it out.

Why exactly am I explaining this again? Hmmm…maybe I’ll just make a website and explain it there…hmm…oh wait!? I DID! :wink:

By the way, I almost forgot, Great PDF, thanx!!! :+1:

Thanks for the explanation. I looked through your entire website, but it wasn’t explained as well as you did just then =). Seriously. I say because I only asked my question up there just after reading through your site and not understanding exactly how it works.

Is there any plans for the plugin to be recompiled for a Digital Fusion version?

Download the plugin, it will run as demo with a watermark. Try it in Fusion. Fusion runs After Effects plugins and appearently it works fine in Fusion 5.x, not sure.

This looks cool. I say Taron demo this at a ZB users meeting and have been dying to play with it ever since

Exciting looking plugin. Will this work with images from other software, for instance if I want to output some fast color, transparency, and depth images from Lightwave or Vue, could I use those in the same way to render the sub surface stuff in After Effects? Along with the examples shown, I can see where it would be nice to use on large crowd scenes for skin and hair, and on environments for leaves and water and glass, or on things that would take other renderers a very long time to render, especially as an animation. I’m trying the demo and just grasping the concept here, it looks amazing. I’m hoping it can do the things I’m thinking about.

Regards,
Bill C.

Hi again. Just wanted to post another render. 6 secs to render.
Have fun with the plugin!

Regards,

Fabrizio.Furious John_2.jpg

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Hi Fab!
Your model is outstanding!
you and Taron are crazy! really really insane work! so much details! i’m astonished!

ok Fab, now it’s time to sleep i think :smiley:
Catch up later mate!

Iacopo

HEY RICK! Oh, I should’ve made up a mailing list or so, it’s so much to tackle. I’m sorry I didn’t let you know right away! :o

Did you get to try it out already? There will be more tutorial clips up shortly, too!

There also will be a little update later today. Found a little something that kind of bothered me a bit for a while now and we fixed it. Caustics now react very natural behind stained (colorized) glas!

Also, Bill, yes you can totally import footage from anywhere you like. I’ve posted a really stupid little quick clip on the site that shows it. I’m a little ashamed it’s so primitive, because you can make it as elaborate as you like with specular texture sequences and subdermal color sequences and so forth. This is just to get the idea across.

If somebody wants to provide me with cool footage, let me know! Just email to the support email for taronites!:sunglasses:

Very cool plugin.
After effects is rather expensive on top of the plugin going to get rather steep for an artist. Well worth the money if your in the industry. Though. Very quick render. Now if you can render out a sequence of alpha grabs in zbrush :wink: Sort of scary where somthing like this would lead.

Could you achieve the similar effects by applying an alpha as a displacement map to a plane?

The more I think about it actually, the more this plugin reminds me of Zbrush’s native renderer, except in a superior way =P