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ZBrush sketchbook of Zhelong Xu

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Okay,after ugly devil,,,Let me show you some cute works.
1.DA A FU

Based on traditional clay figurine A FU in WUXI, China.We Chinese believe DA A fu will bring people happiness and peace.

BTW:The images has been picked as cover in first PBR rendering book from allegorithmic on Substance day:)

Modeled with ZBrush,Rendered with Nvidia iray.

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No-texture beauty render,with V-Ray
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ZBrush screenshot

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Monkey ZEN(porcelain version)
Rendered with V-Ray
The Chinese people believe that inner peace is the highest realm of life.
Too much artworks depicted monkey king(SUN GOKON) as a Ape who has full of violence. But in fact is not. He is a Buddha. I tried to show this through the work… I hope you like it.

Substance painter version

ZBrush screenshot

Little stone lion( Fu-dog)

The jade version,Rendered with Arnold.

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The stone version ,Rendered with KeyShot

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Zbrush WIP images

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nice stuff! :D:+1:

love it…great stuff.

Nice lion model and renders!

Would you mind sharing your material setup for the jade render in Arnold?

Thanks!

Its a Aistandard material just add some sss effect,nothing special :slight_smile: the important thing is sss multiple do not be too large.:smiley:

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Excellent. love that design.

Arowana antique
It‘s a Project for our online courses in early next year. This is lesson one,"Overview of Zbrush-Substance painter Workflow "
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:+1: beautiful model and render

HI,the beast mask is another sample for my class:)Designed by myself.
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And,Melita‘s Tiger mask,sculpted with ZBrush,rendered with Iray for Substance painter
Based on Original work by Melita,https://missmonster.myshopify.com

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sigh…

Compared to Chinese Culture, we Westerners are only adolescents. Not only when it comes to Art but also, as you write, the emphasis that is put on a well-balanced mind and inner peace and tranquility.
But Western Culture brought us ZBrush.
To me your works are beyond top row.
I also visited your Artstation page and your calligraphy and drawings ( that bridge in Home! and Yu, that fish!) are on the same level as your ZBrush works.

Thanks for sharing.

First of all, I would like to thank all the people here, your comments and praise are my motivation.
This time I brought new works, as you know, I LOVE the dragons. Really very, very much love. But we Chinese people thought the dragon has divine power, it does not mean evil, but a concentrated expression of Chinese culture.
I did the work for allegorithmic 's new products, Substance Source .https://www.allegorithmic.com/products/substance-source
the great substance series software to my zbrush works to add material and texture.Let them be more beautiful.I hope you can as always like it!keep zbrushing!
modeled in ZBrush,textured and material in substance painter,rendered in Iray in substance painter!

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Wow, I love this “Little brave human with extra huge dragon” theme so much.
Such a great pleasure to watch this.

BUT it is even a bigger joy to see how you jump between this super detailed work and the pure beauty of simplicity.
#189 - so poetic!
I’ve been to Bejing this year for a nice project (last time I’ve been to Shanghai was for the Expo Opening Show, stunning town!). Luckily I had the possibility to meet and, let me say an “old school” artist.
We were talking about the the trend to overdo things in China, especially in my kind of multimedia show business. A bit surprising as Chinese are somehow the inventor of minimalism, just remember those breathtaking ink horses i.e.
You, dear xuzhelong, are one of these artists who can combine all of it. The amazing detail of the wonderful wood carver with the very complicate simplicity of ink painting - porcelain.

Thank you very much for sharing - a real pleasure!

Beautiful work :slight_smile: