Hello Polycount! So, long story short - I wanted to learn ZBrush for a long time as my support tool for hard surface modeling (for making details etc). I have found pictures of really beautifully crafted Japanese matchlock (Tanageshima) and I thought it will be a great exercise to create it with help of ZBrush. For start,…
@Larry For the smaller one, I've created a mask in photoshop with focus on having only black and white values then I used it as a stencil. This way I have the shapes that I want to refine with hand-sculpting. I learned a lot from here: https://youtu.be/RByXIvjcS7U The Bigger ornament was a mix of my weird ideas how to…
Update! More low poly parts, especially cover for gunpowder. Also I've done fast uv'd, baking and texturing of the ornament part - just to try how it will look. Note to myself: will need to better define the higher parts of the ornaments, or create better contrast on them :) Thanks @Elithenia ! think that the smaller one…
Update! Retopo progress. Most done by hand, only for wire, I used Zbrush zremesher (just as a test, never used it before and it worked well for me :D ) and for the end of the barrel, I've frozen the subd level 1. It's a bit heavy and has a lot of unnecessary edges but I like to have more geometry and clean it later. I was…
Hey @joshmtyler thanks for critique man! Yeah, I just lay there some materials as a starting point. Now I added some more details and wear so any more thoughts how to improve it will be much appreciated :) Update! Think I will finish it at this point (maaybe), I worked more on materials' details, also tried to add some…