How do you Model/sculpt Bandages?

ImRuKus

Hey guys,
Recently started work on a character for a collaboration piece with two friends, However ive hit a road block in my work.

Bandages.

Or more specifically bandaged pieces of a body, in this case the forearms.
Im trying to make bandaged arms from the wrist to near the elbow and I just cant seem to get anything looking right or good.
I was wondering if anyone knows of any modelling/sculpting techniques or tutorials for bandaged arms. Ive included the model im working on (where the forearms are red is where the bandages will be) and the concept art piece im working from.

Thanks in advance, hopefully someone can help me out because as for the moment im just stumped on ho to make good looking bandaged arms/body parts.

Aga22

depends on how deep/detailed you want the geometry to be. a good cheat i think would be to model bandages flat on a plane, render it as a displacement map, or normal map
(depending on how detailed you wanna go), and apply them to your forearms with cylindrical mapping (and some tweaks obviously)

ImRuKus

I would like the final sculpt to be quite detailed, I ideally would like to have the bandages as separate subtools then bake the normal's down into either a plane or a cylinder. The reason for this is I would also like to develop a workflow for modelling/sculpting them in the future for different projects.

Aga22

i'm no zbrush expert but the most appropriate tool for you might be this:

http://www.pixologic.com/zclassroom/homeroom/lesson/insert-mesh/#curve-insert-mesh-basics
which is a new feature in 4R4

manoj3110c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2_YWHs13X0


check this ,i think this might help

Brian "Panda" Choi

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