Eat3d's Character Production By Michael Pavolvich
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Greetings!
Surprisingly, no one made a thread about Eat 3d's new DVD (which you guys usually do as soon as it is released.)
http://eat3d.com/blog/eat-3d/new-dvd-release-zbrush-4-character-production
EDIT: My thoughts: I watched it yesterday and it was really amazing tutorial. I think it is good for intermediates' review and new learners / self-learners.
Your thoughts?
Surprisingly, no one made a thread about Eat 3d's new DVD (which you guys usually do as soon as it is released.)
http://eat3d.com/blog/eat-3d/new-dvd-release-zbrush-4-character-production
EDIT: My thoughts: I watched it yesterday and it was really amazing tutorial. I think it is good for intermediates' review and new learners / self-learners.
Your thoughts?
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As always, Michael did an amazing job on this DVD. Personally, he is one of my favourite tutors and this time was no exception
After watching his DVD, mine too.
EDIT: I apologize for this mistake. I meant to write "Michael Pavlovich" instead of "Michael Pavolvich."
It is a minor yet stupid mistake, so I request any moderators or editors / admins who come across this thread to change correct the mistake in the thread's title.
People might not be discussing this DVD because Eat has already taken all our money and we cannot afford another DVD ;P
It looks pretty good from the trailers though. Treading water a tiny bit maybe... Maybe there's new avenues to be covered, like advanced rigging stuff like wings or animals.... animation too maybe.... Maybe get into a bit of Maya too...
Actually what I really want is Andy to do a Blender Masterclass DVD that covers everything!
http://www.digitaltutors.com/11/training.php?pid=38&autoplay=1
not particularly Andy doing the Blender Master class DVD but it is kind of covered.
There was also rigging a rhino if you look at the old tutorials. I go to this website sometimes since I can not afford a year worth of subscription I look at the free stuff.
But the subscription is really worth it for advanced tutorials for rigging.
Do you always take one's word for granted and have false beliefs or do you see it and than believe it.
There is no difference between them actually. If you go to the DT website for advanced tutorials they will teach you the advanced stuff and they will state right away that this is the beginners / intermediate / advanced tutorial.
If the tutorial is for beginners, they would state something like "This tutorial was made for people who are absolute beginners."
If it is intermediate or advanced, they would say something like "This tutorial was made for viewers who have the basic knowledge of the 3d software they are working with. if you like to review the basics there is a tutorial (name of an appropriate beginner's tutorial that is relevant to the current one that they are teaching.)"
There are minor differences between Eat 3d and DT since Eat 3d does cover a bit more ground basis for Game Developers by publishing out the UDK tutorials. They also published CryEngine tutorial. Which is great.
Digital Tutors just started publishing tutorials out for Unity.
Digital tutor's Biker tutorial is pretty much the same as this character production tutorial, the one I linked in the main post. Except for the part where Michael gives you a tip of how to present your model. (which is kind of a good touch when wrapping up the tutorial.) Also, I really liked how he laid out the texture on the jeans and shirt without going in to Maya, creating a texture of it, and importing it back to the Zbrush for Polypaint. Instead Michael just used Noise and Spotlight for it.
You seem to not have an open mind for a learner. You are more like a follower who will eventually get a teaching job. Like if people will tell you later on that Eat 3d Tutorials suck, you will just believe them instead of trying them out.
In this case, they believe that Digital Tutors suck and Eat 3d is better where I have tried both and to be honest with you. Nothing but the end is different.
There are many people here including myself who learned alot from the Digital tutors before I moved on to Eat 3d because buying one permanent copy of the tutorial for the same workflow is better than subscribing to have it for one year only, kind of made sense to me. And I really liked the ending and how he presented this character.
Lastly; That particular tutorial from Digital tutors that i've linked is an advanced tutorial. They will not tell you how to push buttons in this tutorial.
I try to get as much info out of their tutorials that are free. For subscription, they are still a bit expensive for me but I still admire their tedious work flow (slower than Eat 3d but Tedious).
EDIT: Never mind, I read on.
I'm so embarrased for you right now.
Not a great deal, some reptopology tweaks and clothes blocking, it's mainly a zBrush orientated tutorial.
As for the Blender tut, I have been toying with the idea of making a few free tuts once the first official BMesh build is released
What sort of things do you guys want to see?
That depends on what can you do in blender.
I personally would wish to see someone putting little focus towards ogre3d. Like creating a high standard game model in zbrush and blender, rig it, animate it and exporting it in to the ogre. Or just a simple prop of the game environment in to ogre. It would be really awesome.
Edit: on second thought, I havent tried blender tut dvds yet, so i'll do some research and post my request.
This sounds a like good idea for a Poll'd thread! Right now I could say everything and nothing, but I think what I'm most curious about a workflow which might include blender that could represent real-world kludge that you would do.
Also, ding, ding, I think I just got myself a new tuto.
Overall my main things in Blender that annoy me is when I follow other tutorials I can never for the life of me get 3d texture painting or the projection painting to work. Even a simple step by step of how to set it up would be awesome. But it might just be bugs of some sort. Or a video about a decent options set up for trying to use a tablet for 3d texture painting in blender.
Otherwise I think a good tutorial would be using Blender's ability to layer multiple textures using masking to good use would be awesome. I saw a tutorial on blending matcaps and stuff and I thought a game model texturing approach to that method would be fantastic. That and a good BMesh primer video would be magnificent.
http://eat3d.com/zbrush4_r2r3
I want to buy it but I think most of the stuff from the original tutorial is pretty much transferrable based on one's needs.
I would really appreciate it if someone takes his/her time watching this tutorial and gives out a thorough review.
Anyways, this video looks ace! Can't wait to snag it for work.
Peace!
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Haha for me it was the Joan of Arc tutorial lol.
The process that Michael uses to create the new character is substantially different to the Orc due to the updated techniques and differences in subject matter. Plus I think everyone is getting a little tired of that guy by now
In regards to the ZBrush 4 R2&R3 - New Features DVD...
They were always planned as separate releases, as with the 3.5 Character and Intro tutorials, because it allows us to go into much more detail than we would otherwise be able to, due to logistical challenges regarding filesize and tutorial length etc.
Also, some people don't want to have to watch a character DVD to learn a bunch of new features, so we try to cater to them as well. The new features DVDs show much more specific and focused tuition in regards to the actual features themselves, rather than showing them in a specific case or scenario, such as making a character or sculpting some cloth etc.
Same here, man! Just a copy of Milkshape and a frustrated look on my face
Thanks for the kind words too
Thanks, man! Enjoy