EvilSmiley, yugu, Drummer, Steve-T, Strannik, Serozh, alancamara,
thanks for the nice words!
Atwooki,
the number of polys at SubD level 6 is about 3.9 million. I'm not going to subdivide more than this because I can create finer details by adding a bump or normal map in Maya
slocik,
no, the final render will gonna be in Maya/Mental Ray. About the settings, I already posted it here. Use the same shader/light and add a good skin color map and you should get similar results. Some color correction in Photoshop always helps too.
jit_gohil,
looks llike he is happy with the results so far but you know Rick, he is just too nice to say what's wrong in the model
javierloredo,
you surely can use the stencil! Don't know if will gonna be as fast as it is the way I do but you should get good results that way. Give it a try and share some results with us.
monstermaker,
Mirror? Rick, you are just too kind man
I find new things to fix everyday I look at the model and the references. I'm getting closer but I still have a long way to go to make this model look more like you
About the beard, sure! Let's add some color for the next update!
Thanks a lot for the encouragement and nice words, Rick! YOU are da man.
Mr. Positive,
isn't technology amazing sometimes? I got my O-1 visa and my first job in USA 2 years ago because of my posts in CG foruns. I was a banker at that time (I was a banker for ONLY 16 years... that was just sad ). Few years later I could actually meet and talk to Rick in person at the last Siggraph and also in the last ZBrush meeting. I think I still feel a little bit like a banker geek living in Brazil. That's why I think meeting people that always inspired me when I was working with CG only as a hobby, like Rick, Meats Meier, Ken Brilliant etc, is still a little surreal for me. It's not a fanboy thing or because these amazing artists are more than humans or something like that, because they are just like us (only much more talented, damn! ). It's just the way that my whole life changed in a very short period of time... thank God!
So yeah, internet can be amazing sometimes
ivar_sn,
thanks for the nice words and welcome to te ZBrush world!
Yeah, start posting your works here because this is the best CG forum available on internet IMHO. Very talented artists sharing techniques and is there always someone decided to help you
-Kris