Technology
This Is One Of My Favorite Things In The New Zbrush 4- So Exciting
Finally! instead of having to create your own zsphere people to work with, in Zbrush, you now have mannequins. and not just adult women but children and animals. There are also actual scenes that you can work with. check out the video
New Features in Zbrush 4
More information on the zbrush 4
A link to Pixologic and the z brush4 Overview
A link to Sculpting and Productivity
How about a Paint & Show
And finally a Feature List. There are a bunch of videos on this page.
We are all anxiously awaiting our e mails for the updated version to arrive.
New Zbrush 4.0 Is Coming Out On Monday!
Free upgrade to Zbrush 4.0. Yes, it is like Christmas. What is new? Looks like a lot. Plus Mac and PC version are finally caught up. That means for this Mac User I’ll get zsketch. I can hardly wait. Here are some videos to let you know what the new Zbrush can do. Of course it can do all of the other things that it used to do. Here is a video preview of Lightbox. Looks like some fun stuff. I can hardly wait to play with this.
- For those who don’t know about sketching with zspheres.
- This video has been out a while. It is on Zbrush4 beta
- And of course the PC users will have what the Mac users have had. GOZ
- If you want to know the new upgrade schedule here is a link on the Pixologic site.
Keep Creating And Running Into Brick Walls!
I’m working in zbrush and trying to learn how to translate what I know from Mudbox and traditional art into Zbrush. Now, many people say that Zbrush is very hard to use. I would probably agree, but it is also because it does so much. I can see these two programs, added to the technology of 3d printing and milling that I have been studying and wrote about in the mudbox book, as giving me so many more tools in my traditional process. For example, I now can create portraits in stone, and do architectural elements quite easily. It is thrilling. I have been working on a tutorial to create this fancy looking building. The tutorial can be found on the pixologic website. But I have added a thread with all of the videos and the complications and problems that I find with the process on our Digital Sculpting.net website. I’ll keep the thread going as I progress with this tutorial. I’m including a picture of my column.
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A little Something I’m Working On
It seems like I’m working on a lot of little somethings. But what happens is I get going and then get stuck and have a question so I have to stop on it until I figure out the answer. This is a bas relief. My thought is that it could be made into a cameo.
More Quick Sketches But In Zbrush
Some more quick sketches but this time in zbrush.
Another Armature- A Scary Digital Tree- Work In Progress
I have been trying to get a handle on zbrush. This is a zsphere of a tree. A zsphere is like the armature that the clay will rest on. The scary tree is a portion of a bigger project for an illustration. Much more to do. Long way to go. But I thought I would share it.
A New Piece Of Art- This Time Digital Art
I have been working very intensively with Zbrush since finishing up the Mudbox book. (Sculpting in the computer is much easier on my hands, and a welcome change until my hand surgery. ) I have wanted to really get into it. So here is my art nouveau fish. I have tried him in several different materials. Still have not painted him. But what fun it will be to play with him some more.
Now to try to paint him or put him in a scene.
First Review on Our Mudbox Book
Renderosity wrote a review on the book that we wrote that just came out Digital Sculpting with Mudbox Essential Tools and Techniques for Artists. Check it out.
I Have Been Working On a Portrait of Mom
Many of you who read my blog https://creativesculpture.com/blog know that I have been transitioning from just traditional sculpture to digital. This is a portrait that I have been working on of my mother. It is created in Mudbox and still has a long way to go. But I thought I would post it. Mom passed away last August and so it was, at first, difficult to work on. I am, however, now very excited that I have started on it. I’m also glad I took the time, on one of my last visits, to gather lots of reference material. The new Mudbox has this cool feature called turntable. Even though mom is far from being done I though I would add it here.
