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    Default Hello, fellow ZeeBees

    My first post and my first forays into ZBrush...

    I could wax lyrical about it, about how it's the closest thing to pure artistic freedom I've experienced in a long, long time; about how I feel like a kid in my first comic book store again... but (my) words don't really cut it, which is why I became an artist after all

    I only bought it for the 3D sculpting, but what has come as a complete surprise - and utter joy - is the 2.5d sculpting! It's a kind of organised coalescence of chaos that I've only ever experienced playing music

    I've only been messing so far... more than a little frightened to see what happens if I actually plan a piece!





    So much to learn... CAN'T WAIT!!!

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    Really would help if I read the instructions, wouldn't it

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    And the first thing I did, working a demo head to find out what does what.
    God bless you Pixologic, you should have your own country; Pixologia, and we could all be Pixologians, fine upstanding, intelligent and very sexy individuals...

    ... he rambles, he shuts up!

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    Stupid newbie; first I insert instead of uplink, now I read the bit about posting images in firefox... starting to feel a little lonely here with the zbrushed tumbleweeds, zbrushed gekko sat on a zbrushed rock blinking at my irregular smoothing group'd self

    Oh well, tried posting these yesterday (or so I thought) because the 2.5d side of zbrush has been such a revelation to me... may post my first 3d bits again too if i figure this out
    so here goes, with curly brackets this time, and without cutting and pasting java script... more complicated than learning zbrush

    'nGenes' (my engineered little playmates!)
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    'Lightward' (releasing nGenes into the wild...)
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    Loving ZBrush, just starting my first zsphere'd build!
    Can't wait to try paintstop (yes, like pitstop, i get it)
    Not enough hours in the day... if I can just zbrush that disapproving look off my wife's face

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    [Don't have enough ram to go up to a higher poly count, unfortunately, but loved building this little fellow up out of zpheres.
    A fantastically intuitive process once you learn tom keep your mesh clean - god bless that 'a' button!

    Found I have far more stretching around the large zpheres of the chest and thighs than the smaller extremities (obviously). Wondering if retop'ing will sort out the distribution, so that I can sculpt on those large areas without having to waste even more polies on the smaller already detailed areas... guess I'll find out when I finish learning the basics...

    All I can say is
    Zspheres = Genius
    loved the process, will learn and will hopefully get better

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    Couldn't resist another 2.5d sculpt after I accidentally made a weird shape when deforming my zspheres sculpt ... i think i might be addicted.


    'There is no I in Gene'
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    Hi Herman, looks like you got bitten by the Z-Bug too... . The 2.5d tests are looking great! You should definitely take those images into PaintStop and experiment with an overpaint! ! Looking forward to your next !

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