Maxilator's random stuff thread

Maxilator · Sep 2016

Hi, thought i'd make a thread where I put up some of the things I make that aren't so much projects as they are random stuff that I try new techniques on or I'm just doing something small and spontaneous, so stuff that aren't really worthy of a whole new thread basically.

Maxilator · Sep 2016

Some gemstone rendered in keyshot and sculpted in zbrush, just played around with the rock sculpting brushes I've seen in different tutorials.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/kw/molicur2wvzx.jpg

Eric Chadwick · Sep 2016

Neat stuff!

Top reflection makes the top seem like it's coated in metal, not sure if intentional.

Maxilator · Sep 2016

@Eric Chadwick
Thanks man, I just popped a premade material on there and pulled the sliders a bit, but yeah it looks a bit metal like, Lowering the refraction index seems to lower the metallic look of the surface.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/jq/mq6yszg9dqgg.jpg

Maxilator · Sep 2016

A little piece I doodled along while watching Marco Plouffe Zbrush summit presentation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umg_spkkeu0 ) to test some of the techniques he mentioned. I really like his approach to hard surface and would recommend to watch the presentation. I don't know how new any of the methods he uses is to people who regularly do zbrush hard surface but I found some things that were new to me.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/ru/dx19tndidh44.jpg

Maxilator · Sep 2016

Trying my hand at a semi realism head

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/si/f5yzfaz5n74g.png

Maxilator · Sep 2016

Kept working a bit on this, I found it fun to doodle on her. I just put down some preliminary makeup on her and and further worked on the sculpt, just started working on the hair, I don't really know how other people do it, but I pretty much just put down these low poly lumps right now to figure out the style I'm going for.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/co/qotm9nncooel.png

Maxilator · Sep 2016

Kept going a bit on this

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/zg/ihsmqqzf2k9m.png

Maxilator · Nov 2016

Update!
Maybe should've made a thread for her after all but Kept working on the hair a little bit and played around with piercings, kind of fit her I think but I've not decided yet. Does anyone have any feedback on the anatomy, I can't find any direct flaws with it myself but that may be due to a lack of experience.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/44/m61ak0wi02t1.png

Maxilator · Nov 2016

Started playing around with the shapes of this thing, the idea was some kind of hellish/necromantic creature that plays on the strings like a harp.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/om/8h6ty55wdgnb.png

Maxilator · Nov 2016

Did some more on this little guy.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/l7/0dj3s8xm33sy.png

Maxilator · Nov 2016

Some more, I'm going for some kind of fleshy material for the body. still pretty rough and basic.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/50/fthl95cfvl44.png

Maxilator · Nov 2016

Played some more with it, I have a neat little trick i've been using at times I thought I might share.

What it basically does is that it pushes the shapes to be more pronounced without having to go in and manually sculpt it all in. It's a bit messy and "Blunt" to use but I find it effective when you're in this kind of rough stage where I'm at.

You make a new layer for the subtool you want to push the detail on, smooth the mesh using the regular smooth brush, and then you reverse the layer you just made. The result is something like this:

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/69/499dcza00xin.png

As you can see I'll have to go in and smooth out some of the more lumpy places now but some of you might find this useful.

Maxilator · Nov 2016

Some more polish and adjustments, I'm moving quite slowly with this one because it's more of a doodle than a project and I'm testing out doing things in different ways than I usually do.