Beer glass scene creation
This course contains a little bit of everything with modeling, UVing, texturing and dynamics in Maya, as well as compositing multilayered EXR's in Photoshop.
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Maya - Mudbox
I do have drawing skill as my background was graphic design before succumbing to 3D but I have never sculpted anything in either traditional clay or digitally.
I'm evaluating Mudbox and ZBrush trials to see which suite me better. Mudbox UI is far easier to navigate but I can see that ZBrush is very powerful.
Anyway here is my very first WIP of a bust, base geo created in Maya then over to Mudbox.
As always your comments and crits are most welcome.
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Firstly the problem is, people like mudbox because its like maya and everyone is shit scared of the Zbrush interface because it isnt - period. Zbrush just thinks a little different but fact is its all there in front of you, just look and you will find. Texture wise, mudbox is very good where as Zbrush still falls over at importing 32bit textures -export is fine, but I will say Pixologic have vastly improved the texturing too with the introduction of spotlight. Zbrush's sculpting tools will wipe the floor with Mudbox -thats a pretty much known fact -displacement map extraction is better as is Normal Map generating in Zbrush, though earlier versions with codes was an absolute ass. Mudbox however has a thing called Vector Displacement maps, a cross between normal and dis maps - they look impressive but I have yet to use them.
at the end of the day its horses for courses and what works best for you as an artist
And oh yeah I nearly forgot....Zbrush's new dynamesh -hahahahahaha Amazingly fast and furious, pull your mesh out in strands and reattach to the mesh into a single click....jeeez I love it
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Thanks Jay,Good, its getting there, reminds me of the GI character tutorial I made for the site
Jay
It's been enjoyable, totally different way of working though.
Trying out ZBrush next.
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Just messin'. Your latest cartoon head is looking very cool. Sculpting asymmetrically can be a challenge but the results are often very nice.
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