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This post is mainly for the french readers (who have to read the french version of this post), to announce the french availability of the Scott Spencer’s Digital Sculpting – Human Anatomy book.

If you don’t own it and you are looking for a better knowledge of how to improve your human character sculpting, it’s a real mistake! This is a book that you -must- own!

I saw some negative feedback that it’s not using ZBrush 4 features and almost no ZBrush 3.5 features. Yes, that’s true, but to be honest, it’s not a miss as Scott is focusing on the main sculpting an anatomy concepts and knowledge. ZBrush is just a tool, which mean that 95% of the content can be use by any other sculpting software… even if ZBrush is strongly advised

During the Japan Expo tradeshow in Paris, I had the opportunity to do several 3D prints of my models, thanks to the 3D printer on the booth!

I learnt a lot about the process, not only how to prepare the model, but how it really works for the full printing process, and how to avoid extra problems. I’ll post later a dedicated post about the 3D printing in color with ZCorp printers.
Thanks again to Sculpteo and 3DAvenir !

Again, a big thanks to Sculpteo and 3DAvenir !

I’m back to my blog after a logng spring break. But why so long? This is quite simple:

• ZBrush 4 has been released! Oh yes, releasing a software takes a lot of time, from days to night The Redbull is my friend (that’s a problem when you don’t like coffee…)
• Vacations! Well, not really as I had to cancel a part of them because of ZBrush 4 release, and after, I had to take care of my two kids because my wife holidays ended.

In the next fays and weeks, I’ll write new posts and show some ZBrush step by steps and tips and tricks!

During the Japan Expo tradeshow, I’ve been interviewed by Clubic, one of the main websited in france dedicated to technology. The subject was the 3D printing, from virtual to real. Then if you want to see what i’m look like, just click on the image below. Sorry, it’s all in french!

I’ve been a little bit disapointed by the intervew as I expected more about what I said about ZBrush and the sculpting part. They only kept what I said about the 3D printing aspect. But well, I won’t complain for a free advert in such website!

I hope the next one will be more focused on ZBrush!

Take a look at this video. The booth where I was appears on the right, with the two video projectors which light the walls. you should notice the ZBrush logo on the top right. How can you do your work in such conditions?? with so much noise!

It was really cool to see these guys in the tradeshow with all their energy! And just after, they came to our booth to do the same. I hope they will be back this next year!

I’m back from the japan Expo tradeshow (180 000 visitors expected!) and this edition has been a real success! If you read the french, I advise you to read the french version of this post which have more details!

This year, we had a booth shared with Sculpteo, a 3D printing company and a 3D color printer from ZCorp (Z650). It has been a good way to do presentation from virtual to real, with sculpted objects made in ZBrush and then, 3D prints!

I also learn a lot of new things related to 3D printing, which will be a great help for future productions…. and tutorials!

Our booth!

The crowd was impressive, especially on saturday, with a good mix between girls and boys (55% / 45% I think) with nice cosplay to look at :p Unfortunately, I didn’t really have a lot of time to visit the trade show as we were only two on the booth for the Pixologic side. But, well.. it’s my 5th Japan Expo, then I guess I didn’t miss something huge (perhaps a sign from Tsukasa Hojo…)

Some Cat's Eye girls

The crowd!

We also had on the booth some speed sculpting done by Bibouik, Pam / Pandorabox and Cyril, in addition to my speed sculpting and demos. I also did a comic character… a dog! with the artist beside me. I’ll do a dedicated post later as it was very interesting!

But the real crazy aspect was the printer on the booth. It has been a real magnet for visitors, to see how easy is to sculpt with ZBrush and then, how easy it was to have your own 3D models in your hands. Then it has been a good opportunity to have some of my models and speed sculpting printed! I also had my Mangalore (from the movie the Fifth Element) and Liu Lin models printed in 30cms height!!

Some sculpt-on-booth models. Sorry for the poor quality of the photo...

Liu Lin and the Mangalore. In the middle, a 15cms height robot

Hey, it's me!! Photo by Benoit Rogez from 3DVF.com

During the tradeshow, I recorded the printing process. Sorry for the poor quality and the captions are in french…

Then, it has been a very good tradeshow, a lot of cool visitors which were peased to discover ZBrush and the 3D printing, with a lot of questions. I hope to see you next year at this tradeshow!

And to finish, a short gallery. Sorry, the pictures comments are in french !

For the 5th time, I will be at Japan Expo this year, on the Pixologic booth to do live presentation of ZBrush. Japan Expo is a real large event with 180 000 visitors expected this year!

For this new edition, Pixologic decided with our partners Wacom and Sculpteo to do everything big! We are sharing the same booth to do a full presentation from 2D to “real” 3D: Create a concept in 2D on a Wacom pentablet, Sculpt it in ZBrush in 3D and then… print it directly with the help of Sculpteo! Yes, we will have a ZCorp Z650 3D color printer on our booth!

Then come and say hello at our booth, ask for help on ZBrush and if you want to demonstrate your skills, feel free to do it, even in live in front of everybody!

If you want to visit us, the tradeshow will be from July 1st to July 4th in Villepinte, in the north of Paris. We are in the booth BH 38 and if you are looking at me, ask from Thomas from Pixologic on the booth, we are three Thomas!

This is a close up of the 3D printing. It’s a small one, then some details are missing. We should have the same but in 30cms height, which will be a lot better

Retrouvez le communiqué de presse commun de Sculpteo et Pixologic dans la suite du billet.

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This is an -old- model which was done on the sculpting side, but which never had a painting (well, I did a crappy one some time ago).

Because of the Japan Expo tradeshow which will be in a week, I had to do the colored version for 3D printing purpose. Then, after a night, it’s done.

It took me more time than expected as the model had his pose and the ZBrush posable symmetry wasn’t able to work on some parts as it was not topologically symmetrical. The model is also 23 millions of polygons, then I had some slowdowns. Now, let’s wait the 3D printed one!

For the 4th time, I’ll be in the MIFA tradeshow in Annecy, south east of france, in the middle of the Alpes montains, not far from Switzerland. This professional tradeshow is one of the best one in france with a lot of nice people to meet, a lot of companies from all other the world and also schools.

During the three days, I’ll be on the Wacom booth doing ZBrush demonstrations, live improvisation and answering questions. Then, if you are around, you can come at the booth and say hello!

More about the MIFA.

Mmmh, testing the iPhone publishing with the WordPress App

I also attached some photos of my desk at the office !

Edit : bon, l’application est supra lente, ça prend des secondes pour passer d’un menu à l’autre, et ajouter des photos, j’en parle même pas…