Jam #122 Animated- Clay or Digital

[binabik]

The glasses are a maya .obj model that I imported into zbrush. (so is the base mesh of his head)

I build all my base meshes in maya and then import into zbrush, because I can build much more accurate and complex models in maya at this stage, then I just use zbrush for shaping things out.
I'm more a maya modeler than a zbrush sculptor.

[scubasteve]

Anybody using Blender? I have been asked at the office to work on a mechanical animation and I saw some "sculpting" tools in Blender while I was testing it out.

[binabik]

I haven't used blender for about 10 years, I'm guessing it's come a long way since then

[scubasteve]

I have not had a chance to look into the freeform "clay" tools but for modeling mechanical elements and the price (FREE) it looks top notch. There are some amazing tutorials out there. I have a animated idea in mind and since this is at the office maybe I can squeeze it in at lunch time.

[binabik]

I have seen some mind blowingly amazing work done with blender.
These days a lot of the tools are on par.

Besides its not the tools its the artist

[binabik]

here's another one.
I like to sculpt in what I call 'stages'.

The base mesh, would be stage 1.
refining the bulk and mass would be stage 2.
adding major details and landmarks, stage 3.
refining major details - stage 4.
fine detail pass - stage 5
superfine texturing - stage 6

so here is stage 1 of a new sculpt. it's a bit hard to pick at this low poly level, with no shaping as yet, but see if you can guess this one

[jedideni]

Count Duckula! I could tell by the hair before I even saw it had a bill.

[binabik]

Duckypoos!!

this would be about stage 4, refining major details.
having a bit of trouble with the hair, once it subdivided, but I'll get there....

[jedideni]

Nice job everyone!

New Jam coming up in a few minutes.

[lexesbenz]

Whats a decent fair inexpensive computer that has no problems running Sculptris or Zbrush, mine is always lagging.

[binabik]

My pc is 3 or 4 years old and still copes no probs, so any baseline modern computer should be fine, just make sure you get at least 4gb of ram, the more the better.

[lexesbenz]

Ive got 4 gigs of ram in my laptop and it still can't keep up, maybe it's my processor, it's an intel I3 and I have no idea how that compares to the required pentimento 4.

[binabik]

Just watch your point count, most computers will chug when you get up towards 5mill polys.

[lexesbenz]

Thanks