Starting 2009 right!

So I've been avoiding Zbrush for a while now... my only excuse is fear. You see things like Gears of War, Metal Gear Solid, even just random art online and it's so easy to become intimidated. But thinking back to when I started learning 3d almost 9 years ago, had I the same fear I would never have landed a job in the game industry. So I hope you'll join me as I attempt to learn this new, more complicated pencil called zbrush....

I'm using a tutorial book called Zbrush character creation. The first exercise was to create a lionhead door knocker starting with a plane... here is my horrible first attempt...

So aweful I almost don't want to post it... It's very easy to add too much detail too quickly and end up with a globby mess... My second attempt wasn't much better....


I almost wanted to give up on this tutorial and move onto something else in the book but I held my ground and decided on last attempt. Now while this is still no where close to the image in the book it actualy resembles a lion!


There are lots of issues with it and Icould spend loads more time refining it. But I think I got the gist of the tutorial in that it helped me feel more comfortable with the tools and interface.

Stay tuned for more!