Nice one, Wook!

Holly S##t!... Fastest reply ever!

Nicely done! I'd love to see more of it

You will. I am still learning the tool and am trying to figure out how to save out all the file formats for a lower polygon mesh and image maps. All the on-line tutorials say how to sculpt but not how to export to use in other applications.

I hear what ya mean. They have everything on how to create it but nothing past that.

Hey! I needs to ask a favor from ya when at AC

save it as a .mdl
that's the standard between all the 3d programs (xsi, 3ds, maya, etc.)

What I want is the OBJ with all the UV maps for texture and displacment. The tauntaun is made up of several parts and so far I have to export all the parts separately and join them again later in another app. I also don't get the maps to export with them. :/

well I have absolutely no idea how to combine obj's together in zbrush, just know how to do it in softimage XSI.
zbrush is usually the last step to add in the tiny details really.

though be careful with the alpha channel, that gives most people a bloody headache

i need to play around with that X3

how long did this take u to do? :3

The head took about an hour. It was based on a default human head that came with the software. You just stretch and pull and mould it to your needs. The horns took forever since I did not have any instructions on how to bend and twist a cone to get the shape I wanted. So figuring that out and texturing it took about 4 hours. I cheated on the ears and cut and pasted them from a model of a Buck that came with Poser. I then modified them to look more like tauntaun ears. So, in total about 8 hours work.

ha, nice XD

Hmmm... looks very milk-chocolaty. ^^

You see... They should have chocolate tauntaun at easter instead of bunnies! :)

Oh I totally agree! ^__^

Very awesome!

Hora for Zbrush. Time to play catch up again.

lol i have ZBrush but i have NO IDEA how to use it. do you have any place where i can find some essential tutorials for that thing?

You can register here (free) for some on-line free tutorials to help get you started.
http://www.pixologic.com/zclassroom.....gistration.php

thank you =]]

I agree with Bloodhound Omega. Very chocolatey! :9 Amazing work with the texture.

So, looking to get some Tauntaun hea....wha?

You're very talente. Wookiee. ;)

I'm just fascinated by 3D animation and have always wanted to try and model and and animate my own figures. Using Poser is fun but you are restricted to 'common' figures if you can't build your own.

I wouldn't mind having a chocolate tauntaun in my Easter basket. Of course, if it's made of chocolate, I really don't care what it looks like.

aww - so cute * pets a tauntaun

* hee - i should draw one of them critter sum time ;p

YES DAMIT!!!!... I mean... sure, if you want to. ;)

Cool! if you leave the image in halfsize view and put your face in the screen with your nose in the middpoint, it IS 3-D. Great effect!

Actually that won't work. The image is layed out so the right head is what the left eye should be seeing and the left head is what the right eye should be seeing. If you look at the image the way you describe, your eyes will be seeing the inverse image and the 3d effect will be backwards (things that are suposed to be close will be pushed further away and vise-versa).

The best way to see the proper effect is to cross your eyes till the two images merge into a 3D center image.

Wow, that looks fucking awesome! I can't even tell if it's real or not!

That's the nice thing about this tool. You can set your "model" to look just like real sculpting medium so it's easy to see what you are doing.

Where's the books, Wookie? AMazon?

y0u can search Amazon for zbrush. :)

Holy cow that is awesome o.o

Geez, I have zbrush and it eludes me...

You can register here (free) for some on-line free tutorials to help get you started.
http://www.pixologic.com/zclassroom.....gistration.php

There are also some books you can buy to help speed up the learnig process. Once you get used to it, you will be hooked

...an there's Wookiee... givin' us tauntaun head again... ;)

Yes, I love a good tauntaun head. It's the most... Wait a minute!... You weren't talking about the sculpt were you!? <Bap!>

ROFL!

oh an while I can't say fer certain, I will try ta squeeze in some time for ya again at AC if it works out... maybe I'll get ta attend yer room art drawin' party this time... :)

it looks like chocolate. mmmmm chocolate ^_^ looks great

oh man i have Zbrush hehe but i dont seem to learn to move arround in it hehe Awesome job on this dude

Someone needs to build/get you a RepRap! http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/ItemsMade
Then these can come out into the real world!
(Or a toolhead like this one: http://www.physorg.com/news92328869.html and it can be actually made from chocolate! :)

Looks Awesome - guess i'm gonna have to have a look at Zbrush now ;P

ANOTHER new program? :)

Been looking at looking at it for a while now, that and XSI (Greex raves about it(XSI)) - I'd only use ZBrush to make really detailed normal maps anyway (not that i know how, just that i would) so no one would HAVE to know i used it ;P

Yet ANOTHER dirty little secret! :)

Looks great - thanks for showing a stereo pair!

If your target application of choice is Lightwave, try this link:

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/sh.....ad.php?t=15910

If you have other packages you wish to Rig and Render in, just do a search... Every application is covered. There are also workflow pipeline .pdf's for the major 3D packages that you can download and review.

Goodluck,
Growthur

Great reference. Thanks for the link!

Nice! .. at first glance i thought it was carved out of Chocolate. :P ( P.S., I been tryign to get in touch with Shadowspawn, have you chatted with him lately ?

I was at his place 2 weeks ago getting my car worked on. The only way to contqct him is to call hiw work during business hours. He never checks his home machine or uses his cell any more.

That's graphical? Wow!
I thought you'd sculpted that!

Impressive modelling skills.

wow, i'm impressed - very good work here :)

I need to play around with Maya some more and try my hand at ZBrush that looks pretty sweet though. :)

ZBrush is used in many 3D animation companies in conjunction with Maya. You can download a demo version here: http://www.pixologic.com/zbrush/

Cool!

Whoa, nice job

Oh hell! He's learned 3D

Run to hills!

Women, hide your children and your beadwork!

:)

what did you use for refrance out of curiosity?

I have a bunch of pics from behind teh scenes and publicity stills. I also have the two Gentle Giants Tauntaun statues. :)

cool! didn't know they had made anything other then some toy action figures of them.

http://www.brianstoys.com/store/ima.....OnTaunTaun.jpg
and
http://www.mainlinemodels.net/store...../SW5-06239.jpg

as much as I liked the movies would have been nice if they had made the status with out a character on its back. Thanks for the links!

I thought you mighta been playing a joke... "it already looks pretty 3-D to me!" but I tried it anyway and saw what you meant. xD Very cool!

the 3d effect with eyes crossed is just too damned cool. Amazing work man.

You might like some of these then:
http://www.furnation.com/wookiee/3d/more/3D/ :)

That's amazing! I tried ZBrush once, but it was so hard I couldn't figure out how to use the program.

The built in help has tutorials to assist in getting you started.

Very nicely done. I wish I had the time to learn zbrush myself, but alas my job as a truck driver affords me very little time.

OMFG, it's the first time I see a thing like this actually work by crossing the eyes; I only knew stereograms where you have to look outwards instead

Have you looked at it crosseyed and moved around before? It's neat to watch the head follow you.

I know this is a way late comment but, VERY cool zbrush work :D

Ears are a bitch to do, lol!!

For the ears. I created a single ZSphere, made it into a unified mesh, then stretched it into a football shape with the scake tools, then pushed in the one side to thin it out, then detailed it. Thinking back I could have used one ZSphere for the ear then useda slightly smaller negative ZSphere which would have turned the first into a cave like shape. This would have been easier to start with than the way I did it. Once I had the one ear completed I made a copy of it and inverted it for the other side. :)

Thats freak awesome! Im trying to learn how to use Z-brush too at the moment, cause its the only 3D program ill touch for the most part .

Once you get teh hang of it, it's a fun tool. There are some good tutorials to help you get started on their site. Version 4 is coming out later this year so I suspect they may change some of the interface around to make it easier to use

I prefer Mud Box and Blender because Zbrush is way too complicated for its own good. Still I really like this!