As my topic about my attempt to make a good visualisation of Muqarnas died, i have decided to submit for your judgment another one of my last work. I'm weak in renderings and materials still, so let's start from real photos. The detail in CNC machine The detail itself A bit of its details And the model itself in Zbrush The details showed as it is right from the CNC machine without any hand job.

Hi all! Haven't posted here for a long time. But I think now it is a time to share a few new works. I have finished a big work it is close to finishing not only in 3D but in a real world too. Here is a small teaser. The Zbrush: The real plaster just out of a CNC no human hand touch yet

[QUOTE]At some point it may make more sense to build a model like this in a CAD application, rather than as a mesh.[QUOTE] chrisd I use a lot of CAD in this project. Here, for example, a few pictures of executive drawings i'm working on. Quite a messy. But i just want give a "hand made" touch to it. jmeyer About the seams This is the seams: I've test today nanomesh for the building the part works not bad. Maybe in this scale the seams isn't a problem. But in this scale they became visible. And About NanoMessh it doesn't work as predictable as i thought it would. The orientation of items works as expected but the scale is an issue.

Thank you jmeyer! But i am )) So it isn't a problem. The problem for me to make a great picture of it. As an answer for this question. There wat is going on with the dome right now. These are all elements i need to build the Dome. They are without decorations still Here they are prepared for CNC machining. If everything would be ok i show the pictures of real elements tomorrow I also provide executive drawings for workers who would build the dome in a real life and some drawings for construction. Usually, that's it. The work they pay me for is done. I would be lucky if i got some images of the ready dome made on a telephone later. So what i want is to have the CG pictures of the dome for the portfolio. And that is a challenge. Here is a movie that demonstrated how do the elements works together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjChOkWrruY&sns=fb In a dome the scheme of building is a bit more sophisticated. But anyway this is obviously that there is to challenges - build the hi-poly dome, and build a low poly dome. And as soon as the elements connected each other by the from four to 8 edges i have no idea how to avoid the seams, they appear after each Dynameshing in hi-poly model and i could not use Zremesher for low-poly as soon as it do no keeps the connected edges.

Hi Everyone! Haven't posted for a long time but finally there is a good reason to start posting again. I need your help. I do know Zbrush a bit though i mostly use it for the CNC machining and therefore work with hi-poly models. You may see my topic about this here http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?183496-Restoration-of-the-console-with-zbrush My portfolio is almost empty and i want to change the situation and learn more about visualisation. There is a good piece of work in my schedule right now. Islamic dome which is 4 meters in diameter, it would consist of around 1920 elements and i have no idea how to visualise it. Rough sketches and tests of feasibility are bellow. I'm looking for the co-author to work together on this dome visualisation. I have a hope that in a process it would be much easily to learn. I will keep posting during the process and i hope there is somebody who is interested in knowing of the ancient islamic dome secrets

This project actually bit bigger than just one piece of ceiling. This is true i used Rhino for straight geometry but it's only because in the project i'm must repeat exactly the cad model and Rhino is the only program that is the CAD and polygonal in the same time. I can imagine how to do this entirely in Zbrush but in this case i'll be done this job twice first the cad model and then polygonal model. The first image which started the topic was done partly in ZBrush, i've done there the hi poly model for the baking texture, color map and etc. I just remeshed the CAD model, painted it add some flaws, wrinkle smoothed corner.

Thank you all for the warm words )) It's a good question because density of the Dynamesh not enough for the work with a whole model like this, but if you working with part of the model then would be difficult to appreciate the entire composition or make seamless model. Most of time during this video i'm use Dynamesh with highest setting some time divide it once for the more smooth result after redynamesh. Near by the end i'm use a Dynamesh Master plugin with count about 4 millions points. Also, i had a plan to combine rosette with its plate for the play with wrinkles, scratch and etc and i'm not shure that i know how to do this. In the left is a work process, In the right is a highest Dynamesh result

It's not what i'm meant, i'll try to show it tomorrow. Keep working on my ceiling composition. Now i'm in doubt about necessity of the all these baked maps that i did before. From the distance it looks so unnatural in compare with only normal maps textured details. Maybe the old approach with a ornaments that just a map is enough.

Many thanks !!! There is another improvisation on the same theme of the plaster works. I keep working on it not glad yet. The picture is a beauty when the textures is a dark, polished and scratched, but the simple white looks plain.

Hi all! Though there is not so much of the ZBrush in this project but without this perfect program not sure that the result would be so successful. The role of zbrush here only is the soften edge, scratch and generation color map for using with DDo. Rendered in Maxwell render.

"Did you end up retopologizing the entire frame to generate the normals for use with dDo?" If be honest the entire frame was modeled not in the ZBrush. I'm did in ZBrush only the high poly model of it for the soft corner, wrinkle and farther maps generation. But all decorative part has a low poly meshes generated with a ZRemesher without any hand works. And another one render.

Thank you all for interest to my work. Maybe late i'll show you full 3d model of it but not now i was very busy during the cutting process, and also it's not only work that i'm do right now Process of prepare detail for moulding

Hi all! I'm want share with you my last work that is didn't finished yet. Also It's my first time when i am try to do timelapse, i am always wanted to do this because it's looks really great when it's made by another guy So this is work that i am planned to do, really first step. The base i did in the SolidWorks, because there is a lot of works for another people to instal it in reality, and i'm must give them a precisely drawing with exact dimensions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWcfgYWOd_M

Hi every one! I am using ZBrush about one year but this is the first time when i am decided to show my work. Sorry for my english but i hope picture talks better than any words of me. I'll show you the restoration of console that i am made at last month. The first picture showed you what part of console was save. Yes, not to much This is the 3d model This is the milling process. And this is the model for moulding And there you can see simple 3d model http://sketchfab.com/nmlj31d0

Thank you for your interest! I'm think there is nothing intresting in the Milling Process, of course if you never do it maybe it's interesting for but i'm really doesn't use some trick in this process. I'm preparing my model by the Decimation Master to about 1 million poly, not more then 2 million, then export this with 3d Print Eporter to the stl format. For milling i am using PowerMill but there is without surprize too, just three, i'm don't know how it say, trajectory for cutting. One is for remove the lot of material, one is for take of the rest material, and one is for the good surfaces. Just the model. The first trajectory. The result of calculation the first traectory. The second trajectory. The last result of calculation.