Zbrush Video Rock Formation tutorial. Part 2 done

bugo

LATEST UPDATE for the part 2 and Video is up! Part 3 coming soon!



Please. Bare with me. I got a bad cold and english is my second language.

But heres the start of what some kept asking me for a while.


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bugo

If you feel lazy, go to 30mins of the video where I start the zbrush phase. I just wanted to cover for people that dont know the basics. And btw, the cold turned into a viral infeciton, so I will delay the 2nd part a little bit more

Joopson

Thanks! Quickly scrubbing through it, it looks like it'll help me a lot!
And it's plenty easy to understand, seriously.

Funky Bunnies

really awesome, bugo

i watched it the whole way through and picked up some really cool tips! thanks for taking the time to record it, man. i can't wait for the next part

Bryan Cavett

You just cant stop making rocks can you Hugo

TerraNoise is pretty awesome for creating nice alphas but you're not really getting a 16 bit image when you export out a targa. I believe you're just converting a 8bit image to 16bit when you save as a 16bit psd when going into zbrush. I found this other tool that will convert a 32bit .TER image to 16bit tiff that you can then convert to a 16bit PSD.

Grab it here http://koti.mbnet.fi/pkl/tg/TerraConv.htm

I have been using this for some rock alphas the past few days.

Grimm_Wrecking

Thanks man, this clears up so much of the frustration I have been experiencing. The whole thing was awesome.

haba_haba

thanks, great tutorial, awesome job.

bugo

Glad u guys liked it.

Great find Bryan! And yeah, you're definitely right.
Well, it's not that I like doing rocks, its just that i promised some ppl for this

Still not done tho. After my recuperation I'll go back to it.

spetch

tap tap that trim smooth border, lol. You are doing a great job, and thanks for throwing this up man. It should definitely go to the polycount wiki soon. Also, thanks for the TerraNoise reminder, I don't use this enough.

bugo

Thanks Shawn!

Here's an updated rock sculpt, I'm doing the 2nd part of the tutorial to do this, being uploaded right now, just waiting on vimeo's conversion:

Grimm_Wrecking

Looks baller man, can't wait to scope the new vid. Thanks so much for dropping these art knowledge bombs.

bugo

Thanks Grimm, enjoy! There you go! The part 2 is up, part 3 coming soon!
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Rockley Bonner

yo man awesome tutorial, Ill be using these pieces in my folio!

bugo

Not sure if you went ahead for the 2nd part of it?

It's good to see you tried, here's my feedback:

1 - The shapes you did are very rough, they show too much brushing everywhere, did you apply the noise? You could try trimming down a bit more and make the rock appear a bit more smooth like the reference.

2 - Your slates seem very separate from each other. Remember what I said about not separating them too much in the video?

You are in the right direction, just giving you my 2 more cents.

Rockley Bonner

ah, no I didnt view the second part, But now that i have I can see Ive missed out on some great techniques. lol

I did apply the noise, but I guess I need more practice with the brush? Thanks man for the feed back Ill definitely get back on that to apply what you've said (hopefully I didn't decimate the mesh and save it like that) to the rocks and other pieces as well.

bugo

Yes, it will definitely require you practicing with Trim Smooth Border brush. I agree, it won't be like "a minute, know everything". The best thing to do is get some reference, look at it's shapes and forms and flow of erosion, think on how the rock was created and why is it that type of shape, believe me! It helps a ton to think about that. Also, people think sometimes that rock is just a random procedural thing. Yes it can be used a tool, but gravity and time of nature has to be thought about too.

bugo

Im trying to change the thread name. Does anyone know how can I do that?

Rockley Bonner

i think you have to get a mod to do that.

bugo

Thx for updating the thread Jesse!

XilenceX

This should be very helpfull when will the third part be released?

bugo

hey, possibly next week!

Rockley Bonner

Bump for interest.

XilenceX

RJBonner wrote: »

Bump for interest.

yeah I second that!

Jhburton

Where did Part 3 go I was enjoying this one!

bugo

Heh, I guess I should get back to it. I will try getting some time this next weekend, how about that?

Rockley Bonner

Fow show!

MisterSande

very cool tutorial man! , bookmarked!

I do however think that your sculpt is too clean when compared with real life reference. The rocks would look allot better with some sculpting/deformation on the top. Than again these rocks come in many forms and shapes so it just depends on what you desire.

BluPanda

oh hello hugo~

rogueNoodle

@bugo - Thanks for putting these together. I hadn't experimented too much with Trim Smooth Border before and I'm loving the effect.

I've only watched the first video so far, but I do have a couple of questions:

1. I'm not getting exactly the kind of effect with the brush that you are. I'm sure a lot of it is strictly practice, but do you use any different settings under the "Picker" options?

2. At about 41:00 into the first video, you mention "selecting the normal you want" from one area and using that angle/normal in another area of the mesh. I haven't been able to figure out how to do that - can you elaborate on it a bit? It seems like you're picking the angle from one area and somehow locking it so that it becomes your starting angle when you move to a different section. Or maybe I'm over thinking things :P

maximumsproductions

This tutorial rocks! I've always taken rock sculpts for granite.

I guess you might say that part 2 to part 3 ended on a...cliff hanger.. well I tried, rock jokes are too hard.

Looking forward to part 3 if you do decide to finish it up :P, regardless I've learned what I wanted out part 1 and 2 hopefully you continue doing more tutorials. You're quite knowledgeable and willing to create videos for others is a solid combination!

bugo

rogueNoodle wrote: »

@bugo - Thanks for putting these together. I hadn't experimented too much with Trim Smooth Border before and I'm loving the effect.

I've only watched the first video so far, but I do have a couple of questions:

1. I'm not getting exactly the kind of effect with the brush that you are. I'm sure a lot of it is strictly practice, but do you use any different settings under the "Picker" options?

2. At about 41:00 into the first video, you mention "selecting the normal you want" from one area and using that angle/normal in another area of the mesh. I haven't been able to figure out how to do that - can you elaborate on it a bit? It seems like you're picking the angle from one area and somehow locking it so that it becomes your starting angle when you move to a different section. Or maybe I'm over thinking things :P

1- I'm not sure I got your question, "undert the picker options?"

2- Yes, everytime you brush the trim smooth border brush selects a world normal which if you hold and keep brushing it follows through the surface and it goes as deep as the other surfaces around, but if you hold it you will notice the angle of the brush wont change until you release the pen and try again. As you said, it locks the angle of it.

bugo

maximumsproductions wrote: »

This tutorial rocks! I've always taken rock sculpts for granite.

I guess you might say that part 2 to part 3 ended on a...cliff hanger.. well I tried, rock jokes are too hard.

Looking forward to part 3 if you do decide to finish it up :P, regardless I've learned what I wanted out part 1 and 2 hopefully you continue doing more tutorials. You're quite knowledgeable and willing to create videos for others is a solid combination!

Thanks mate, soon enough I'll do my best to finish the 3rd one.

Ramon Lima

Great tuto so far man, looking foward to watch the next ones!

Ramon Lima

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Ramon Lima

Great tutos so far man! looking foward to watch the next one! :poly142:

Brashen

Great tutorials mate, just wondering if you were ever going to post a third part for it?

cheers

Oniram

awesome tutorial dude. thanks for sharing these. i learned a lot from the videos.

alecchalmers

They look great, I'll try this later on. Thanks!

jonas_molgaard

How do i view those videos? I mean what do i do with these [ vv ] id's in order to see the actual videos?
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Stromberg90

These post where made before the forum was changed, so the old embedding doesn't work it seems.

However it's the vimeo id's, I've added links.

jonas_molgaard

ow, that's awsome, nice to know it was Vimeo links, i wouldn't have guessed that. Thanks alot!