Zbrush Day 6- More Extracting

Today I started to shape out the helmet more and still give it that sharp hard edge look, using the same techniques as before I was moving ahead.

 I finished most of the head today it was getting a lot faster using these techniques, and the results were also very satisfying because I was achieving that hard edge look. Although it was missing detail which maybe I can do later

 

I was getting a lot of sub-tools though which did make it very confusing sometimes when I extracted something new. That was the sub-tools just for the helmet and the whole body would be a lot more so I looked into a way to merge them so it makes the computer a lot faster and processing.

This is a render of the helmet without the base mesh underneath, it looks very good but can be still refined.

Zbrush Day 5- Extracting the Detail

Today I started to make the hard edges I need for my model starting with the head because I thought of working my way down from there. I extracted the pieces of the head using the masking tool, and then I clipped of the edges to make them straight. Then lastly using the hpolish brush I got the hard edges effect.

 

This is the same process but at an earlier stage with a different piece of the helmet, it takes a lot of effort and time to clean up an extracted mesh but I was picking it up fast. The clipping brushes normally give of a piece of the geometry which is not needed and it’s very hard to get rid of that very thin plane like geometry.

Zbrush Day 4- Adding Detail

This is the front view of the markings I made on the Zbrush model.

 This is the back view of the Zbrush model i wanted to vary and designs and make them flow with the front of the character.

Today I marked out the model and this is where I will extract the pieces of the armour from, I can still change the designs if I need to. A problem that I was facing for the last 2-3 days was to make the hands which are very hard, and I am going to seek help from Simon on this.