PolySculpt

This is a sculpt I did during the FormaCD event in Paris this Saturday. This event has been dedicated to the 3D illusion, with a drawing presentation, then Maya modeling, ZBrush sculpting and at the end, some Blender presentation.

It’s a speed sculpting, then sorry for the quality!

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ZBrush, the leading software in 3D sculpting is now available in it’s 3.5 version! Pixologic made lot of improvements, changes and new features with this new release. Some of them are visible, some other, not really at the first glance:

• The new ZSpheres II which brings a new Adaptive Skin which more accurate results and provide a good topology on complex structures (like hands-fingers connections).
• The new ZSketch, which will let you freely sculpt strip of ZSphere in the 3D space and will allowing you a more creative art. try it, you won’t be disappointed!
• The new Surface Noise, to apply dynamically a procedural noise on your mesh in a non destructive way. But at anytime, you can apply it definitely on your mesh, or use one of the new noise brushes, or set a noise to all the other brushes.
• The new planar brushes and brushes / stroke settings, to create “hard sculpting” models!
• The Perspective, the zoom and the memory management has been a lot improved. This is not the kind of major feature which is always announced, but when working on daily basis with ZBrush, you will love these enhancements! Oh yes, a floor grid has been added!
• A tons of small things here and their, mostly not so small! Ambient Occlusion Masking, Textures per SubTools, Merge of SubTool, Enhanced Normal and displacement maps creation, geometry HD supported for the creation of these maps (and also the Polypainting in HD!), tons of new brushes, Masks and Polypainting in 16 bits, Light Lightbox browser to a fast access to the files, .ma export, improved import OBJ with reprojection of details. Ayaaaa !

You can check all these new features at ZBrushCentral on the announcement page. Check also the previous published movies (1 and 2).

Note: ZBrush 3.5 R2 is now available for download. If you have some troubles on the installation, install the vcredist2008 available in the troubleshoot folder. Check also that a “vmem” and a “ZStartup/Tempfiles” folders are created in the ZBrush 3.5 folder.

We worked hard on this new release, and we hope that you will enjoy it as we love it!

A small ZSketch I did quickly. I will post more soon:

For the french people, I started a ZBrush workshop this last week and through internet, with a sharing screen software. I won’t give more details here as it is for the french speaking people.

Perhaps I will do one in english one day!

A new model. Still a test / 3D doodling as I’m not looking for sculpting a very accurate model and also spending days on it.

This bust is far from being from the body of a thin girl, I know, but well, I wanted it like that