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joshpurple — dragon head WIP update
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Published: 2017-04-03 06:51:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 827; Favourites: 45; Downloads: 13
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ZBrush, MARI, 3ds Max, using Vray (eyes, teeth, small horns, etc. have no textures yet, etc.
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wonderful.... might I use this in one of my composings? You will be credited of course.
I'm just a hobbiest, no commercial stuff. Final picture will be posted here on DeviantArt, FB, 500px and my personal webpage
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Thank You 
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thank you very much
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Cool 
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here it is
Hope you like it. i'll post it tomorrow on the other websites.
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Brilliant! I luv it, -you did an outstanding job 
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Thank You Traconian!
Most excellent to check out your works, -which are looking outstanding 
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xD thanks, the sudden influx of messages at first scared me.
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This is fantastic. You're nailing the sculpt, the details, and the textures/render look amazing. Killing it! I may be asking for a tutorial from you soon. no joke.
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Thank You Dopepope 
Glad to pass on what I know to you anytime
There's a ton I'm learning/need to learn in MARI (and ZBrush
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I'd love to get my hands on Mari. It's quite expensive tho. But KeyShot is killing it for me right now. I'm happy to answer any questions if you have any. Shoot me a note anytime. As soon as I get a minute, I may note you about how you did the maps and all that for the textures. It's one thing I don't really do yet.
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Sounds good to me
And, Yes! Keyshot has been fantastic! I'm tempted to take my final Vray scene in 3ds Max and send it to Keyshot, see how that renders, etc.
I've never been a big fan of doing UV's... , always wishing PTEX would 'suddenly' become the new normal (and not be difficult to work with
There are a couple of 'non-UV' methods out there (which look-like 'blended box' methods + photobashing), -from what I've seen used for fast concepting work.
For my recent work I'll use UV Master, just to have some ok/decent UV space to work on.
Then I'll send everything to MARI and do a lot of projection painting (rotate model to a good spot > texture is 'on top' of the mesh > paint the texture through to the model (where it sits in the frame buffer) > Bake the texture down onto the mesh / project it > rotate model, find a good spot, etc. > paint the texture through, etc. (repeat). <--There is a TON you can do in MARI (it's like Photoshop on roids
Then I'll export out all of the maps/textures from MARI > import the meshes & maps into 3ds Max > render in Vray.
A lot of people LUV Substance Painter, which I completely understand (because Substance Painter is incredible!). <--that might be considered competition with MARI, but I think both are excellent, & I'm glad to use both (josh pours all of his money out the window
Mudbox seemed to be very promising for being able to do the 'direct' painting of textures onto the model (the option of not having to do 'projection painting'), unfortunately Mudbox seems to be dying... From what I can tell, Mudbox is going into Maya (which, I hope, works out well). I would have no problem going to Maya & using Vray in Maya for the final rendering, ...just that I'd have to purchase Vray for Maya 
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Thanks for all of that Josh. Very interesting.
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That's really coming together! Looks fantastic Joshua. Looking forward to seeing it with the eyes and teeth textured
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Thank You
I'd LUV to get that to a dragon head with all textures on, -and breathing fire
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WOW, loving the different kinds of scale textures, makes it seem very realistic.
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Magnificent you should do more art like this (can we talk via notes?)
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Thank You, and I agree
And, sure, feel free to send me a note
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o.o That looks scary and EPIC at the same! Amazing work so far!
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Thank You
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