Goblin Bank Teller (Zbrush to Marmoset2)

Renaud Galand

Hey guys,
Here's my first piece for 2014 I decided to try something new for this one. The goal here was to experiment with a pipeline that allows me to quickly render very highpoly meshes from Zbrush and keep my interaction with Maya or Photoshop to its minimum for speed sake (some color and texture overlays and a few mechanical parts). I must say that everything went very smoothly, HUGE THANKS to Marmoset 2 for handling the whole thing perfectly, IN REAL TIME while not compromising on the rendering quality. (I think I might have finally found my (affordable) Keyshot alternative )

Anyways, here's a quick bust I put together inspired by the Harry Potter's Goblin bank tellers



Zbrush preview :

arcitecht

Really nice work. Care to elaborate on the workflow, especially as far as LP creation and texturing goes?

Renaud Galand

Thx! Well that's the trick. Like I mentioned it above, what you see here IS the highpoly straight from Zbrush I guess you can call it real time, because it's rendered in Marmoset, but I didn't build a lowpoly for this one.

arcitecht

So marm2 can use the vertex colors straight from polypaint? I'd never realised that, pretty neat.

Renaud Galand

I don't think that Marmoset 2 supports vertex color (YET?), I had to create some quick UVs in Zbrush and bake the polypaint information for all my textures (diffuse, spec, roughness, detail normal).

Jeff Parrott

Awesome work on this!

Is the hair just planes? How'd you handle that?

Renaud Galand

Hey thx Jeff!

The hair is literally the fiber mesh groups generated inside Zbrush (as planes) and exported straight in marmoset. Since Zbrush auto UV them, it was pretty easy to apply a soft gradient ramp for opacity a play a little bit with some color variation (roots VS tips).

afisher

Awesome work man. The fiber mesh looks great.

NyneDown

This looks sick man, great job!

Were there any lag issues in marmoset from pulling in the hipoly...or did you decimate it first? I havent bought a copy of marmoset just yet, so I havent had a chance to play with it. The way it handled the hair sounds almost too good to be true.

Renaud Galand

afisher : Thx man

NyneDown : Thank you! And to answer your question, NO LAG at all (and I was using 4k and 2k textures everywhere with no decimated meshes )