PixelSlaughter tryout death metal

Thanks!

Well, first of all, I have not exact workflow... Till now everything is experimental, with effects, resolutions, application compatibilities, program features etc.

I start always with something done in Photoshop (mixing photos, 3D rendered images, texts, probably sometimes textures etc...), or directly from Zbrush - Im learning it and when I like any result of my learning curve, I then pass through FF.

So FF is the next step. Im sorry I cannot share my filters. I started for fun using it, but then I decided to do commercial works and bought the program. My filters usually are channel-based, mainly luminance and red (because of the blood, as I said this is for the metal music scene).

So I can render the same image with 4-5 different filters, and then mix in Photoshop, add some new layers and items, process another time in FF... In my mind, the key to good results in what I will do, is the correct preparation with Photoshop of the base image.

I can do the same without the use of FF, but it saves me about 80% of the time. And about Zbrush... Its the 4-th time I started to learn it. The 4-th! Hehehe... The new 3DS MAX is for me as calculator for Fred Flintstones. Hard appz.

It was Photoshop to FF only

Nothing special in this picture except I found new techniques to use

Your works are really surprising and like much the quality, details and artistic way of making them, even if you did not like the theme, surely they are excellent done

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Nothing special in this picture except I found new techniques to use

Nothing special? How have you done all these very realistic and well done monster mouths? this are special for me.

The new technique you found is about Zbrush?

Have all these monster mouth been made sculpted in Zbrush?

You are a great artist and know very well how to do the things you want, and I like them, independent of the theme, is very good how you make them.

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Mama, Papa, and Me

Good details and well done, although perhaps there is too much slime or liquid, and perhaps from my point of view, it could be better if the nice surrounding textures and figures could be more sharpen and more clear, as it happens in the monster mouths above, but of course this is only my opinion, and you are the artist, so it must be as you like.

the second "nothing"

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PixelSlaughter its the same 3D object, rotated and scaled. I found how to make it looking as brushed metal. Its some FF processing plus Photoshop

So, all these monster mouth are all the same 3D object loaded into Photoshop and then rotated and scaled and then applied the red using FF processing?

Sorry to bother you with this, but they are too well done, and very good and so wanted to know how it was done.

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PixelSlaughter I dont have tablet and powerful PC doing this (at home I have, but on board I dont - Im international truck driver, the last years

OH! Cool and good to see that you are working on the road and then spend some time making some of these artworks while you are away on your truck work. Of course not while driving

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PixelSlaughter the second "nothing"

Well, for me it´s not "nothing", I would name it alternatively "abstract", but for me this reminds me of hundreds (or thousands) of small fish dead on slimy wet mud, because the river has dried out.

Thanks for showing you artworks here

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PixelSlaughter The multiplying the objects in Zbrush is very easy (hm.. or not SO easy hehe), but yes, it allows to ¨paint¨ with objects in some sence

Oh, good, sorry that I did not know that you could import any 3D models and objects into Zbrush (I have been looking at the user guide and others websites) with the help of the Polymesh3D tool, I was wrong thinking that Zbrush was only for sculpting things in clay, and you could not use any 3D model as source.

So you prefer to use Zbrush to other 3D software, because for you is easier to "paint" over the objects with colors and textures (I know this is better done in Zbrush than other software) as it has more choices and features.

THERE IS NO ZBRUSH TRIAL

After your very well done works and seeing what can be done with Zbrush, Filter Forge and Photoshop, and knowing now that you can import 3D models into Zbrush, I wanted to try how Zbrush works BUT the problem is that Pixologic does not have any free trial version as most of the other software companies, you have to pay the full price 795$ to get a trial of 30 days and then you can decide to get a refund if you do not like it Why pay this much money for something that you do not know if you will be able to use and will be useful and helpful to you?

Try 3DCoat?

Yeah, I'm a 3Dcoat user given I was working on trying to keep my work operation costs as low as possible. So Zbrush immediately went out the door.

At least Sculptris is free.

And speaking of painful interfaces and sculpting, Blender's got some dyna-mesh like capabilities, and the brush set is honestly not as bad as I thought. I used it to make some stone wall assets for a game, but otherwise I just did it because I wanted to prove that Blender can be used to my coworkers.

Yeah, the interface of ZB is not the only STOP for me. The workflow is horrible, too. The documentation is... well... I read about 50 articles online, before doing a good UV, to model without subD (just to see how this can be done). It was said that its possible, but how exactly..._!_ And the same for many things more.

I still like it universality, and the ¨pixols¨ count... Still learning it, to know if I will use in future, or not.

This is the second

Rendered in FF (the original 3D image was very flat and colorless). Sorry for the polygons - my laptop is not the strongest in the world

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