Zbrush, making a dome detail

Boozebeard

Hi, I wanted to practice some hard surface techniques in ZBrush so I decided I would make some shields from this concept art I found. I'm starting simple with the second from the left, top row.

Progress thus far:



I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on making the dome feature in the centre. I could just insert half sphere there I suppose but I was wondering if there was a way to do it using deformations?

Boozebeard

I ended up inflating the polygroup in the middle then using a combination of polish and relax deformations to round it out and repeating this until it was round enough and also the right size.

I think the result is good enough:

Autarkis

Or you could have just dynameshed the whole thing and appended a sphere to it and remesh it

cptSwing

Or taken ~5 minutes to do it in a regular old 3D app

Autarkis

Hah CaptainSwing You win best answer.

But he did say he wanted to practice hard surface sculpting in zbrush, and well, dynamesh is something to definitely look it inside Z

cptSwing

Hey, different folks, different (brush?) strokes..