Thursday, August 18, 2011

Sculptris bust

paintover of 3D img
Pixologic released a free sculpting program called Sculptris: http://www.pixologic.com/sculptris/

Messed with it tonight since it's been forever since I actually touched Zbrush. My takeaway is that it's a really nice, light introduction to sculpting, though I think it has some limitations (I think starting from a single sphere and pushing/pulling it from there is the protocol- so creating a full body seems like it might be an adventue). She's got a bit of distortion, but I can't seem to increase her poly count without my computer wailing in dismay.

Will play with it some more later. I haven't really figured out everything yet - like I'm not sure if there's a way to render anything... So these are just screenshots (good enough, right?)

Definitely worth checking out, though!

A cool thing that my art director mentioned was using 3D as a jumping off point/shortcut in 2D work. That struck me as a really smart technique - I did a quick paintover of my screenshot and am pretty happy with how it looks! It also helps me imagine the 2D image in 3D, having already modeled it.

one more for good luck

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