3DVim opened this issue on Sep 05, 2006 · 82 posts
3DVim posted Fri, 08 September 2006 at 6:29 AM
Thank y'all for the inputs, beautiful postings, and informative discussions.
Quote - "are you primarily going to be doing outside scenes - or - are you going to be doing room interiors, city streets, spacecraft scenes or the interior of temples? "
Hi, Bobasaur, thanks for the question. Actually, I'm hoping that I will be able to do all of these, and I know it'll take lots of learning and hard work. But to begin, for the purpose of my upcoming projects, I'll primarily do landscapes with characters in them, and model some monsters and exteriors of temples.
Re: modeling apps, ZBrush and Hexagon 2 feature Brush Modeling tools that let the user sculpt the model in a way as if they are using Photoshop brushes fine-tuning the outlines of and/or painting on a 2D image. It's like creating and fine-tuning a 2D image (or several sides of 2D images of a model, to be more accurate), and after you're done with it, it gets turned into a 3D textured model.
I'm in awe with what ZBrush can easily achieve...
ZBrush gallery links: http://206.145.80.239/zbc/featured2col.php and http://www.pixologic.com/zbrush/community/community-gallery.html
As a 2D artist crossing over to 3D, I am personally very attractive to such convenient way of modeling (and 3D-texturing, of which the technology already exit for some time I think). Like Vue 5 Infinite, ZBrush was utilized in the mega hit movie Pirates of the Caribben 2. However, ZBrush has a big price raise, now costing $489.
Hi Tom (hawkfyr), XENOPHONZ, patorak, martian_manhunter, and anybody who's experienced with Lightwave -- does LW has brush modeling tool, or similar, or even more convenient tool for modeling?
If so, I'll take up LW instead.
Also, is the Lightwave+Vue5Infinite bundle deal still available somewhere? I searched it at Google, but couldn't find it. If anybody can point out a link (or two) to the bundle deal, I'd really appreciate it.
Best!
3DVim
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