Sculpture_updated

KarinaGM

@KarinaGM: Thanks, about skills, you need another app for sculpture. Why don't you try scultris? And an app to covert it to a clean 3ds (like blender 2.49b).

I'm actually learning sculptris ^^ tho I'm not good at sculpting, and the worst part is painting.
I've tried several times to give blender a go, but it needs more time than I have. Anyway with all those triangles I get when sculpting, I'll have to learn how to retopo (that is an almost new word to me!)
Here is my first exercise with sculpt
Do you know a good tut on how to retopo in blender????

drpetter.proboards.com/
index.cgi?board=wipsculpt&action=display&thread=849

I divided the link because I'm not sure if it is against the rules to place external links

michaliszissiou

Hey karinaGM is this the right place to talk about it? PM to me. Its about blender not about SU. I started to write a small tut and just stopped.
In general, you have to construct a cage (via retopo low definition) you have to subdivide it (3-4 time) you have to import the triangulated mesh from (lets say sculptris) and use shrinkwrap in bender to capture details. This way you'll have a multi res model, a low res for viewer and highres for renderer. This is the basic idea. I wrote this, sorry SU users, it doesn't belong here.

InterArchi

IS THIS MADE BY SKETCHUP ????

michaliszissiou

Can you be more specific interarchi? This is a SU scene, podium renderer is used here. Sculpts using zbrush. I think I already wrote about these.

michaliszissiou

Some rock studies, a low poly mesh is used, you can download it and use it as you like.

rocks2.skp.zip

michaliszissiou

And Colossus of course All these in half an hour (the rocks), render time included.

shura

Haha, Colossos looks great! Thanks for the model, I am a huge fan of your rocks

pyroluna

Ha nice... all it needs is some birds and birdpoo...

michaliszissiou

Thanks sura, you need a more detailed model than this.
Thanks martha you should try one, the skp is in the previous page. So "for the birds".

shura

yep, wish I could find the time to learn how to make my own rocks. I once modeled a human head and used the new UV Tools plugin to do the unwrapping. worked pretty good to model from photos and use the same photos to paint the UV-map. (When using other pictures on the same model it failed miserably.)
hm, I wonder if this can work on rocks too. Is your tutorial out already?

michaliszissiou

lol, all i like 'sit'. Its simple. A least my name is not starting with an Xe (xenophon) which could make things difficult. You know that this X pronounce sounds like access