I do environment art at work and almost every highpoly model gets some touching up in zbrush. Even though it's hard surfaces everything can benifet from a 'little' organic detail. It's great for scratches, cracks, dents, etc etc.
Oh, that's very good to hear Snowfly, thanks. Haha, I kept on reading about how odd Zbrush's interface can be. Sounds like it shouldn't be too much of a problem for me. Which is good, cause playing around with the demo I can't even get the fartin thing to rotate my view or model. :P Oh well, I've started looking for…
There are all sorts of things you can do with zbrush as an environment artist. As others have mentioned, it's great for adding some scratches, dings etc to objects. I've used it for making terrain, ranging from huge mountains to craggy boulders. Recently I've been using it to make a bunch of bas relief carvings in an…
Oh wow, thanks for the link to that interview Lupus. That'd deffinatly be a good example of how it coule be use I suppose. But holy shit... 4TB of memory used for that 2 minutes of footage?! :| And thanks for the info Earthquake. I hadn't realized that it was such a nessesity yet. I think I'm going to talk to my Academic…
Ahh, alright, thanks snowfly. That makes sense. And thanks for the link lupus. One thing though, the video's they have on 3dbuzz are for Zbrush 1.5, and the interface looks very different (I've heard there was quite a change between 1.5 and 2.0 as well). Will it make a different for me? If not I'll be watching the video's…
Register for free at www.3Dbuzz.com and you can get some free videos here http://www.3dbuzz.com/vbforum/sv_dl_tr.php But it's as Snowfly said, once you understand the very basics you can do loads with just that. In the 'classroom' area of the pixologic site you can see lots of little tricks and things you can do in zbrush.…
Hmm, I suppose that makes sense. I had figured that kind of stuff would've been easier to do without zbrush, but I suppose Ive never used it. I suppose I have some learning to do. Which gnomon videos did you use Justin? I might have to get them. Anyways, thanks for the help guys. Hadn't realized it was already being used…