WIP Rock Wall (New Member)

TripMiller

I am currently working on this sculpt I would really appreciate any advice or tips, I am very new to Zbrush so any brush advice or anything would be loved.
Cheers,
Trip

Cheathem

First off,use References!
No ones imagination is more realistic than reality its self.

Tejay

I find having multiple subtools helps you keep sharper edges with each individual rock, also a different matcap might help, it just looks too plasticy. I tend to stick to 2 brushes for my rocks, trim dynamics (almost on full strength) and clay tubes. I like to build up the form then crush it down with trim. But like Cheathem said reference helps a lot, look at other peoples work or photos. But mostly keep up the practice and you will get there. There is also a pretty nice tutorial on the polycount wiki but it doesn't explain the sculpting part.

TripMiller

Thanks for the advice, If it makes you feel better I was using multiple Poly groups and reference I am just that bad . I will keep working at it. I was working with Philip k's Tutorial but it says nothing about how to get the forms. I was basically only using the standard brush with the flatten brush. Thanks Guys

Kbrom12

For my rocks I tend to only use a few brushes. They are the trimbordersmooth, hpolish, and orbs crack brush or dam standard. I also only work in matcap white, it's really good at showing you details that you might not see in other matcaps.


Here are the results I get - http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cSO7LBbx1YU/T59hFdvaauI/AAAAAAAAAhs/eK33g9C9kTk/s1600/Kbromley_HP_Rocks.jpg

TripMiller

Thank you, I still am have a problem of my rocks blobing together Is there a way to turn polygroups into sub tools?

WarrenM

Yep - On the SubTool palette, click the "Groups Split" button.

TripMiller

thanks guys! really Appreciate it

TripMiller

So I took about 30 min an used a poly primitive Cube and sketched only with hPolish,dam_Standard, and Clay tubes with a noise modifier and this is what came out.

TripMiller

I took a zbrush time lapse of me sculpting a rock from refrence. Any tips or tricks one would suggest to get a more realistic forms out of it?
http://s1183.photobucket.com/albums/x471/CJmiller213/?action=view¤t=ZbrushTimeLaps.mp4

Alex Pointer

Nice details, I feel like the edges may need to be harder but it is looking good.

gsokol

I think the form is a little better in the second one, it doesn't look as soft as the rocks in your first post, but your smaller details are ruining it for me.

Your hiding the crisp edges with muck. If your going to add surface details like that, you need to be pretty subtle, and don't do it so evenly.

TripMiller

Thanks Guys That's the kind of hard nosed Criticism I was looking for. I'll have something to post tomorrow.