I use a lot of different software and make a lot of different stuff, but one of the big dogs of the CG world that I never got into is ZBrush. I'm not a big sculptor and the interface and workflow has always been off putting for me but it's something I've always thought was cool and figured I'd take a stab at one day.
Well today is one day, and I've finally jumped into ZBrush and this is my first sculpt. It's the start of a new journey and will take many, MANY more before they're any good, but you've gotta start somewhere.
Since I figured I'd be doing a lot of these in the near future I went ahead and bought some cool shaders that make your sculpts look like they're sculpted out of clay. I was then able to tweak those shaders in Octane to get a pretty nice render. I'll probably use this as a means to make these into something cool looking until the raw sculpts look cool enough, hehe.
This first one is just sculpted from my imagination, as mostly I was just learning the tools and interface and didn't have much of an idea. Just some gnarly old guy with insane cheekbones.
As expected, ZBrush is insanely fun. This is something I could sit and do all day. I'm excited to learn more and get better. I think there's been a lot of improvements over the years and the interface and workflow is a lot less painful. We'll see where it all goes. Hope you all like. I'll see you in the next post.