Week12 ~Final Zbrush Learning Experiments
For the final, I wish to do something that's related to my Thesis project in this Independent, so I choose to modeling one of the Zodiac Constellation symbol "Capricorn"
Capricorn is the tenth astrological sign in the Zodiac, originating from the constellation of Capricornus. In astrology, Capricorn is considered an introvert sign, an earth sign, and one of the four cardinal signs. Capricorn is ruled by the planet Saturn. In Sidereal astrology, the sun currently transits the constellation of Capricorn from, approximately, January 15 - February 14.
By the Middle Eastern Mythology:
The constellation was a symbol of the god Ea. and in the Early Bronze Age marked the winter solstice. He has the lower half of a fish and the head and torso of a goat. The god lived in the ocean. He came out every day to watch over the land, and he returned to the sea every night.
(source from: http://www.crystalinks.com/capricorn.html )
At beginning, I was wondering what would be this model look like, so I choose the Middle Eastern's thought and give a search online for reference and practice what can the basic shape be
Capricorn is the tenth astrological sign in the Zodiac, originating from the constellation of Capricornus. In astrology, Capricorn is considered an introvert sign, an earth sign, and one of the four cardinal signs. Capricorn is ruled by the planet Saturn. In Sidereal astrology, the sun currently transits the constellation of Capricorn from, approximately, January 15 - February 14.
By the Middle Eastern Mythology:
The constellation was a symbol of the god Ea. and in the Early Bronze Age marked the winter solstice. He has the lower half of a fish and the head and torso of a goat. The god lived in the ocean. He came out every day to watch over the land, and he returned to the sea every night.
(source from: http://www.crystalinks.com/capricorn.html )
At beginning, I was wondering what would be this model look like, so I choose the Middle Eastern's thought and give a search online for reference and practice what can the basic shape be
After decide the base shape, I use "adapt skin" tool to transfer the shape out and try couple time for zRemeser to low down the poly and adding sub division to start sculpting.
I have spend enough time on the detail sculpting, but accident clicked off the "edit" and better work flies away since I turn off the auto save, this is my second attends. This time I turn on the auto save, and it saved me couple times.
After finished the sculpting, I start drawing the wire frames for low-poly mesh
I create a zSphere in subtool and put it inside the Capricorn's mesh, and start trace the face for re-topology! After all done it looks very interesting at the moment. It seems like the wire frame with a heart. On preview mode, is more like a ghost/ soul with the heart.
"adapt skin" again, bakes out the mesh
now Sub tool list will have three items
one original, one zSphere, and one low-poly mesh
export from Zbrush and open it in Maya
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