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This was a simple little piece, an award for a client. But I could not get it done and created in bronze in time for their presentation. No problem with Zbrush. I just created it digitally, worked out the details with my client and then created this video for them to present. Now it is on to the traditional sculpture in the studio. I loved using Zbrush timeline to create the animation.

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Bridgette Mongeon is a sculptor, writer and educator as well as a public speaker. Her blog can be found at https://creativesculpture.com. She is also the owner and creator of the God’s Word Collectible Sculpture series Follow the artists on twitter twitter.com/Sculptorwriter twitter.com/creategodsword Facebook http://www.facebook.com/bridgette.mongeon Listen to The Creative Christian Podcast or the Inspiration/Generation Podcast Click on Podcast Host Bios for a listing of all podcasts Listen to the Art and Technology Podcast

I have a client who needs an award.  Unfortunately he needs it ASAP.  Well you just can’t rush creating a bronze.  A 2 week turnaround on a bronze is physically impossible as it will need to go to the foundry. And so, I have used this opportunity to create the design first in ZBrush before going down stairs into the studio and sculpting it.  It was great having Zbrush as part of my toolset As I could work out design details and send it back and forth to him to approve, via e mail. They needed something to show as they are going to present this to the CEO on Wednesday  It is quite easy to make the Zbrush art into a video format using timeline.  Oh, I can see myself having a  lot of fun with this in the future. I’ll post mine later, but here are some examples of what timeline can do.
A cool video showing an animation of a heart using Zbrush 4 R Timeline

Here is a videos from Pixologic discussing the possibilities of Timeline.

Recently I wrote a review on Zbrush 4 for Studio Monthly. Do check it out. Thank you to Yiannis Tyropolis and all the rest for their contribution of artwork for the article.

Bridgette Mongeon is a sculptor, writer and educator as well as a public speaker. Her blog can be found at https://creativesculpture.com. She is also the owner and creator of the God’s Word Collectible Sculpture series Follow the artists on twitter twitter.com/Sculptorwriter twitter.com/creategodsword Facebook http://www.facebook.com/bridgette.mongeon Listen to The Creative Christian Podcast or the Inspiration/Generation Podcast Click on Podcast Host Bios for a listing of all podcasts Listen to the Art and Technology Podcast

As a sculptor the digital technology is important to me. Expanding my horizons with digital sculpting as well as traditional sculpting. In this link you will find some educational videos on the new part of zbrush4.0 called Spotlights. Very 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

More information on the zbrush 4

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.

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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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.

Some more quick sketches but  this time in zbrush.