Shards Of The Iconoclast - A Zbrush Painting, Robert Tiess (2D)

[wildcory1]

Zbrush is a 3d program? But it looks good nice texture keep it up.

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[Robertt]

Hi! Zbrush is probably most popular for its ability to be used for 3D modeling (through Zspheres for example), but it's also an amazing program for 2D (and so called "2.5D") projects. This entire image was painted flat on the Zbrush canvas using things like the depth brush.

Like Deep Paint (and Corel Painter with the impasto brushes), Zbrush allows you to build up paint with each stroke, only it's capable of more producing more of the illusion of depth. This is actually the way Zbrush works by default when it's first started up, but it's not usually used that way :) I'm relatively new to the program, so I tend to use Zbrush for more 2D things. For 3D I use Blender.

There's been some nice progress along the lines of 2D work for Zbrush, particularly with the new free 2D Zketch plugin, which allows pencil sketching in Zbrush. I think we will see a lot more "natural media" type of projects as more users discover Zbrush's potential in that area.

It also appears that 2D and 3D more applications are growing more similar, with 3D transformation possibilities in Photoshop and Illustrator, both of which, in the right hands, can be used to create amazing 3D images using 2D gradients and 2D mesh tools in the case of Illustrator. 2D animation products like Toon Boom have 3D capabilities with paths, light and camera placement.

Lots of possibilities :)

Thanks for the feedback!

RobertT

[khakit]

Wow,so cool:thumbsup:

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