When I have all my lights I do a grey render to check if it's what I had in mind. This way I can move my 'spec' light to have exactly what I want. A sky light (intensity 0.3) for the ambient, a directional light that will affect just the diffuse, another one just for the specular, and what I will call 'red light' for the back light. I have all my models in 3dsmax textured and with displacement modifier, I can start the lighting.įor this scene I used 4 lights. (For this one I used a lot of camera mapping/render to texture) It's a big piece so I will try to make another tutorial on that next time. There are tons of good texturing/shading tutorials so I will not cover this part. I turn the 2 modifier off in viewport (right click) to keep my scene light in 3dsmax. I import all my objects in 3dsmax, I convert them to poly objects, I add a TURBOSMOOTH (with 1 or 2 iterations depending on the objects) and I apply a DISPLACE (sometimes I use the displacement map also in the material as BUMP). My displacement map is created, now I can export my model from Zbrush (div 1 or 2) as a OBJ. First I go to lower division (1 or 2) in Zbrush and I activate the CAGE button (the low res mesh tries to match with the highest division) Then to create my displacement map I use the MULTIDISPLACEMENT 2 pluggin with these options: Now I want to export my models to 3dsmax. Don't forget to remove MRGB and to activate ZADD or ZSUB. Personally I like to work with the INFLAT tool and smooth curve.įor the details I use the projection master with the directional brush and some brush I made form head pictures. Now I can import my model and start working. Then I go to STROKE and put 4 in MOUSE AVG (you will avoid some shaking effects of your pen) To see if it's worth it on yours launch the TEST MULTITHREADING. I have a multiprocessor in my computer, so I activated the MULTIDRAW and THE MULTIRENDER. All your models have to be in quads, if not you will experience problems when you start to model in Zbrush.īefore importing your model into Zbrush you need to prepare your work space. IMPORTANT: You need to unwrap the UVs of all your models (I used unfold3D to do it quickly). Once you know where you are going you can start to model the low-res version of the different pieces of your scene. I used to do some 2d concepts but for this one, I knew exactly what I wanted to do, so I took only a few photographic references. Before starting anything you have to now exactly what your concept is.

I used the same process you're about to see for all the pieces. I will presume that you all have some knowledge of polygonal modeling as I will not be showing how I did the different low-res pieces. Within this 'making of', I will show you all the different steps, from modeling the pieces within Zbrush, to the final retouching up in Photoshop. For my latest personal project I wanted to model an old rock and roll character. I'm going to show you all how I created my Rock n Roll image. My Name is Rodrigue Pralier, I currently work for Electronic Arts Montreal.

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