I learn Z Brush

dabu

Heres the first thing I seriously attempted with this software. Hopefully I will be on my way to a normal mapped high res character model soon.

Still a WIP, just noodling details now. The ear and face wrinkles still don't look right to me, and the folds over the skin could use a little more depth...

DarthRevanII

It's actually pretty good in my opinion. Only thing I can say is that the trunk feels more like a "stripped palm tree trunk" rather than a rubbery, hard, cracked skin of an elephant. Might just be because you have it mirrored.

As for the ears, not really sure my friend...Maybe look for some references...Elephant ears are huge, but skinny and sort of flail. They seem almost "bumpy" rather than flexible, probably because it's modelled so straight

All I got though...you are doing better than me, I really have no understanding of how Zbrush actually works. I really need to look at a tutorial

ElysiumGX

what is it? o_O Did you use reference?

EarthQuake

You can tell by the size of its ears, its obviously a jackalope.

PixelGoat

no... its clearly a duck!

TheFrog4u

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no... its clearly a duck!

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can´t be a duck.. ducks have bigger ears.

..ok.. stop it.. if you take a closer look at this: http://www.xtrakt.de/newsletter/Newsletter06/Maerz06/Thema/Bilder/Elefant%202.jpg the "part where the thees came out" should be more soften.. more fluid integrated to to head.. hope you understand what me and my bad school-english are trying to tell you :P

monkeyboy_garth

Good first effort, dabu - once you get the details ironed out this will look sweet.

Neox

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first of all work on the major forms, details are just eyecandy

WipEout

Looking good so far man. My only crit would be that the tusks are angled out too much from the trunk. African Elephants' tusks run somewhat perpendicular to the trunk, as if they generated from the brow ridge jusr between the eye and trunk. Easily fixed in ZBrush though-- just drop down in rez then pull those verts out -- up-rez and you're all set.

Here's a pic to show what I mean:

Here's a real-world example of what I mean:
big picture of African Elephant.

TheFrog4u

WipeOut, this is exactly what I was trying to say above..
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..if you take a closer look at this: http://www.xtrakt.de/newsletter/Newsletter06/Maerz06/Thema/Bilder/Elefant%202.jpg the "part where the thees came out" should be more soften.. more fluid integrated to to head.. hope you understand what me and my bad school-english are trying to tell you :P

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dabu

ah, you mean tusks. I thought you meant ears. Thanks for the clarification. The ears will look larger or smaller from the front depending on if they are forward or backward against the body. I have my ears in a neutral position, so they look a little smaller in my front view.

I used a ton of different ref for this, and it looked right before. I tweaked a bit, but Im ok with it being how it is.

Im really enjoying just gouging away at the surface with the scratch tool.

Ear folds still aren't working for me, but its getting closer:

WhiteRavenAnim

Howdy there, Daniel!

I decided to upload a couple of large packs of elephant images, in case you are searching for some reference.

First up, image pack 1 (97.2 megs):

http://rapidshare.com/files/82580635/Elephant_1.zip.html

Image pack 2 (72.4 megs):

http://rapidshare.com/files/82582947/Elephant_2.zip.html

Happy modeling!



(Click the link, scroll down, click "free" and wait; when the countdown is done, you can begin the download.)

Panupat

Hey Daniel.
Something looks strange about the ears. I think the bumbs on the ears are not that strong, and the ears need to feel thinner. The weight also push the buttom part of the ear into its head creating lots of folds.
This should be a nice big reference.
http://mirror-sg-wv1.gallery.hd.org/_exh...Africa-1-JR.jpg