Thought I'd share a little project I'm working on. Made this little feller in ZBrush the other day and have printed a little model of it that I will use for casting tomorrow. Then once it's finished I will set a couple of sapphires into it's eyes. Really excited about this little project. Trying to improve a few skills at once here.
what will you be casting it with ?
It will be cast in fine silver using the DELFT clay sand casting system. As only as things are too complicated I usually have pretty good results, especially if i want a thing that day. Otherwise I send my work out to a variety of places that use lost wax casting.
so cool please post some pictures of the finished piece
Really awesome work! I've tried Zbrush but found it quite a challenge so I've left it for now to continue with my 2D photoshop digital painting. Great work though and hope your casting goes well.
Thanks a bunch! Yeah it's got a bit of a steep initial learning curve. There's some pretty decent tutorials on lynda though. You just have to wrap your noggin around the fact that you are dealing with a so called 2.5D paint program that's been frankenstein'd into a 3d sculpting app. Then it just becomes a question of practice. Also you can press the control button (on MacOS, ctrl I think on windows?) and mouse over every tool in the program for an explanation of it. Pixologic has some pretty good tutorials as well.