porous rock in zbrush

moondog760

Hey my wonderful artist friends

It's been a while since I've used Zbrush, since my last job didn't have it in the office (nooooooo!). I needed to get back into the action, so I decided to start with a tilable rock texture.

This is a porous rock based on photo references of mainly lava rock, though some of my references could possibly be of other types of rock which are also porous. Here is What I have so far:




One challenge in doing a porous rock texture is dealing with all of the high-frequency detail. In some of the photo references, it is kind of like a big wall of noise. So I tried to leave some areas of kinda-sorta negative space to give it more balance. What do you guys think so far?

MarianneM

The reference are very sponge like. Will your is allitle bit more irregular

moondog760

I appreciate the feedback. I think I see what your saying Marianne. It can sometimes be a challenge to follow a reference and maintain the balance between noisy areas and less detailed spaces.

SimonT

hm could be interesting. looking forward to more pictures

moondog760

Cool. I've got lots of other things to do at the moment, so I cant promise moment to moment updates. But keep an eye out for progress updates in the not to distant future