wow, I’m really not sure I like that ant image I posted ealier. Hope to imporve it in ZBrush soon.
Anyways, here are some new images I’m working on. Hoping to animate something like this someday soon:
Here is the final result of my experimentation with Mudbox. Can’t say I’m a big fan. Even on my 8 core with 6 gigs of ram it felt sluggish and frustrating to work with. Plus I did some of the modeling of the base mesh in ZBrush just because I found it easier that way. Its true I’m not giving it much of a chance but I feel like it lacks the subtly of ZBrush. Its a production tool, not an artists tool. There’s nothing wrong with that but its just not my cup o’ tea.
Much of the final image was touched up in photoshop (coloring + DOF). The background was quickly created and rendered in Maya.
Alos I’m not super happy with the final composition of this image but it was mainly done as a test. Hopefully I’ll find the time to post new ZBrush images soon. i’d like to work on that Mad Hatter some more.
Yet another WIP. This is an ant model I’m working on in (cough) Mudbox. This is for my friend’s book. Learning some Mudbox. Its alright but I prefer ZBrush, I feel like I could do a better job in ZBrush. This is rendered in Mudbox with small Photoshop tweaks for Depth of Field.
Thought the first version was kinda dull so I’m reworking some things.
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Just doing some quick ZBrush sculpts. Alice in Wonderland concepts for a CG challenge. Not sure if I’m crazy about it but at least it kept me from doing real work.
Another painting/experiment WIP. Combination Painter and ZBrush.
Working on hard surface modeling in ZBrush 3.5. Inspired by Cosmic Motors by Daniel Simon.
Getting into Painter again (Painter + ZBrush). Working on developing some ideas I started a year or so ago with this painting. spooky.
Got sucked into actual work for a while. Hewre is a master copy of a Sargent portrait I’m working on in Photoshop:
