Awesomeness! I gotta try that program!

When trying to use more than two or three spheres, I would always get annoying creases.

How did you get around that? Or am I doing something completely wrong?

I don't know which creases you are saying. I just did it refering the tutorial in the help document. (^^;

seconded... you make it look and sound quite simple, though I'd wager there was some hidden work between frame one and two: the difference in detail is far too noticeable.

Zsphere... Zbrush... hmm.... thats right, I remember now... I've seen others model with Zbrush as well, though the item I'm thinking of in particular involves an animation of a woman transforming into a dolphin, complete with sound effects and music and the such: an artist named Gryf handled that one.


....yeah, definitely need to try this program some time. your work on this dragon head is excellent, thanks for sharing:)

I forgot to save the tools between the first frame and two. (^^; But I just did the same monotonous sculpting over and over in the inbetween frame. ;>

Looks simple enough... I guess...

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Damn awesome work!

Damn you, now i gotta learn ZBrush

I think it's worth to learn. (^^;

Wow, Thats quite stnning and interesting to see how you make models! Coming from somebody who has no clue about them anyway ^_^

Personally I like to see 'How to' documents. It's always interesting to know how other artists make their pieces. :)

Should have painted him blue with shimmering scales ^^;
Good work Black Jackal nice to see your still alive.

You can paint him blue using Photoshop or something. (^.^;

Very awesome :} If I every wander back into 3d I'll check this out.

When you are modeling, how do you keep sides even? Is there someway to just do one side then copy it or something? That's the problem I run into with clay sculpting ^_^

well... I dunno zbrush, but in 3D studio max there's a 'Symmetrie-modifier'.
So once you made one side, you can easly copy that side to the other!

ZBrush (3.1) has the way to sculpt 3D models symmetrically. (^^)

Transform>Active Symmetry

I use 'X (axis)' and 'M (Mirror Symmetry)' in the Active Symmetry menu. :)

ONLY HALF A DAY? O_o

WOW! ^^
I should really try Zbrush sometimes! =3
If modelling is as easy as that, then I think I'll use it! X3
(though, I think a lot of work was done in the in-between frames! )
Keep up the great work! =3

I think it's easy to sculpt a 3D model in ZBrush, but it's so difficult to understand the ZBrush itself. (^^;

I can see some of the extra sculpting done for the final part. The eye socket is the most noticable really. You reduced its size. Excellent work really.

I have ZBrush on my computer but I'm still getting used to it

Man, I have Zbrush...but on this computer, it lags so badly and crashes alot.

Wish I could make stuff like this without crashes. :c

I am very sorry to hear that. My ZBrush rarely crashes. I'll tell you about my system for your information.

OS: Windows XP SP2
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
RAM: 2GB
HDD: 250 GB
Graphics: ATI Radeon X1300PRO 256MB

My computer recently died...well, the motherboard died. So now I had to downgrade into a computer my dad had laying around....I'm not even going to try running Zbrush on it untill I can get a new motherboard. :[

Out standing dude. the amount of detail is just jaw dropping. Makes me wish i took z-brush when i had the chance :(.

Thank you for a comment. :) I hope you will get the chance to use it.

Thank you tons for that in site. I will try the program. How user friendly is it for one like me that is just getting started?

I have the program now. I can only sort of tell how you did that there. Could you mail the tutorials to me. Id like to make dragon and wolf heads. Bodies too.

I recommend that you read the tutorials of Help in the ZBrush. They'll teach you how to use the commands of ZBrush properly. I am still refering tutorials. (^^;

IS that thew new ZBrush interface? It looks so much LESS confusing then when I last looked at it. :P

blackjackal, you do all the detailing in zbrush?
or you use another tool?

I mean, you make the basic "mesh" using the zbrushspheres, then by pressing "a" it transforms into a mesh, you edit this mesh using the up and down tools inside zbrush?

right... it looks like it ought to make sense and is a snitch to follow through... I doubt that I'd have the patience,´thanks for sharing, maybe someday I will be able to do this

a really neat dragon, i'd risk a hello from my tiger side