Zbrush Video Rock Formation tutorial. Part 2 done
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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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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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And it's plenty easy to understand, seriously.
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
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.
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.
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:
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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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
Thanks mate, soon enough I'll do my best to finish the 3rd one.
cheers
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