Thursday, 9 January 2014

zBrush practice

This week in preparation for the current 3D sculpting project, I just wanted to focus on familiarising myself with zbrush's interface as it's a programme that I have never used before.

I started out just watching a few progress videos of other people's sculpts and felt inspired to try a bust for myself, I downloded a simple base mesh and then try sculpting a kind of orc character just to warm up and see how I felt about the programme.

http://luckilytip.blogspot.com.au/search/label/basemesh?&max-results=3#.Us8iZ56bGSp
Basemesh

My sculpture

Creating this sculpture made me aware of many specific areas that need improvement so I know where to improve, One of the issues was that I didn't know how to add more objects into the sculpture, for example using some sphere primitives for eyes and teeth that I had planned on adding so now I have been looking into how to do that and generally doing a lot more research and watching videos on youtube before doing anything else ambitious so that I have the tools to take the next project to completion, or at least have the freedom to do what I want.

Although sculpting over a base mesh has it's benefits such as not having to worry about the initial foundation sculpting process I would like to try creating come sculptures completely from scratch starting with a sphere as it may lead to more freedom (the orc sculpture kind of looks like a resculpted human face)

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