Hey, This is my first ZBrush project. I made it right after watching most of Lynda.com's essential tutorials. I've sculpted in Mudbox and sculptis before, but I saw the price of Zbrush Core, so I downloaded ZBrush Trial to see if I want to buy it. I tried to use basic brushes and kept my poly count low to simulate how I…
So these are some of my recent speed sculpts. I am getting a hard time when working from reference, trying to create the portrait of a specific guy, so i could use some advice here. This is Cain from the Diablo franchise, reference: Scultp : now that i look at it again, he really doesnt look like Cain, but here it is…
My plan was simple: 1st make an impressive picture 2nd receive a job offer from a big company located in Santa Monica ;) My self-portrait is part of this picture. Since this is obviously a non-commercial project, I decided to try out the different approaches and programs. Therefore, the process will be somewhat chaotic and…
Hey guys! It's been very long since the Escape challenge! Everyone's work was amazing. Anyhow, we've started another project. Organic self portrait. I don't know much about the human anatomy so I'm struggling so much right now. It doesn't look anything like me at all! Please feel free to give me some tips and critiques. I…
I taught my first class this summer with CGMA for the Character Arts program. The content covered techniques used in both film and games. the hair would have to be re-worked to make it game ready, but the head itself is a realtime asset. I spent the spring putting all of the content together. I decided to do a self…
This is my first realism/likeness portrait in Zbrush. I'll let you guess who the reference was. This took about a day and a half to get to this point. The hair and poly paint were done relatively quickly just to make it look some what finished. I was looking for some guidance and criticism on the piece itself and a few…
Despite the title I am far off from excellence, one step at a time moving forward I'll come close to this excellence only to see the path is on going. Anyway this is my first post and wont be the last, I'm working on a female portrait at the moment to learn key elements that would help with future projects, anatomy,…
Eat3D has a new instruction DVD out. Based on this posts title, we'll give you one guess as to what its about. Eat 3d has published a new instructional DVD featuring an in-depth look at rendering characters in Maya using Mental Ray from Tony Reynolds. The video is a 5 hour long session of feeding your brain. Soak in Tony's…