good stuff
good stuff
Thank you all.
Thanks paleo3d for your help.
Hi heres another zbrush render finished off in PS.
Cheers BFG.
Heres a new render of my ship.
Same as other one in posts.
Cheers BFG.
Number 12 and 13 are friggin awesome!
(you added more since I started typing this)
Best Render supports Fog and Depth Cue (both work great) settings in the render palette, BPR in ZBrush 4.0 did too, but its been removed for some godforsaken reason.
Also under Light Menu:
Move the dot (light source) all the way over to the side, doesn't matter where, you are just moving it to the horizon.
Then in Lights Shadow (in the same menu) set Aperture to something like 11 or less, this will make the shadows extremely dramatic and bring out details you won't see otherwise.
SoftZ and Soft RGB should be off in Render Properties for Best Render (they make mud), but ON for BPR.
The Best Render fog and depth stuff can be used like a normal render pass like you have been doing, but if you combine that with BPR Filter dog and depth stuff it gets out of control, you can make all sorts of great stuff, and like you have been doing age the hell out of things.
I dont use photoshop (for some reason it hates my computer, and I profoundly sick of error messages) for this layering stuff I use PaintDotNet, its got a plugin for it called Blend Modes Plus, its wicked cool.
2.5D is STILL one of my favorite things about ZBrush, and Best Render is in many ways, still best.
nope...
I don't know what I'm doing but I'm doing it anyway.
Hi Mealea!
Great to here from you!!!
Thanks for the twists and turns for best render. Will have to make another model to try them out.
I have been mixing it up with Paleo3d. Sussing out how to do new things with Zbrush. Really helps to have a Zbrush person to keep ya going.
Cant wait to see the new Alien movie!
Thanks again.
"and Best Render is in many ways, still best"... Absolutely Mealea...
Although I'm doing a bunch of other things elsewhere in ZBrush,
I can't help coming back to 2.5D once in a while.
Combined with ZappLink ( to PhotoShop ) Best Render makes for a mean Render engine.
Wish I could see more 2.5D in ZBC.
I miss the "old days" with Francesco Mai, Gutalin etc...
Made this image a couple of weeks ago (in 2.5D).
Whoa! Sure can get some interesting layered looking effects in 2.5d. Paleo3d.
Those Settings Mealea gave give tons more control now. I crashed my computer playing around.
PS anyone know the best way to position objects into a 2.5d composition using layers etc.
I have done this a fair bit but
Any tricks would be awesome.
Cheers.
Hi heres a new render of ship 10 done with Mealeas 2.5d render settings also using fog. Thanks Mealea.
Touched up and colored in PS.
Also I merged the two layers I created (Which looked all messed up) But I could do a depth grab to get an overall depth pass...otherwise I could only grab the active layer. ?
Cheers BFGNZ
Awesome model. I love scifi. I hope to produce and share some of my own scifi creations with ZBrushcore. Cheers.
That ship is 100% a flying ***** spaceship. That is all.
Thanks Beta!
I just loooove them ships.
Hey how to you put that link to your sketchbook / Portfolio?
The least I can say is that your work is very creativ, and that you radiate enthusiasm.
We all love HRG's work and he is so powerful as an artist that he has opened the door to a Multiverse many others can explore further. This is nhot 'copying a style' but real creative exploration.
There are some good explorers of this world here on ZBC, and you are the latest one of them.
Congrats!
Thanks Erik, You are very kind.
Giger always permeates my creative thoughts...but Im not the only one.
Cheers.
Remarkable...visionary...