Earth Dragon

[takanari]

Hi there !

This is my new work "Earth Dragon".

Maybe Vox Sculpt, Retopo, Paint in 3D-Coat, and Render in UDK.

I like snake brush drawing, but instead retopology is very hard.....

Thanks.

[takanari]

Painted color in Photoshop because I'm thinking about dragon's color.

After that Head parts Retopo and Painted in 3D-Coat, and rendered in UDK.

[L'Ancien Regime]

That's an interesting and original approach. What were you doing with the orange paint there?

I take it those snake tool sketches were made with the spline tool? How did you fill in those snake voxel sketches?

[chris_solo]

great work!

++Chris

[artman]

Great sculpt!!! I like it a lot!

[takanari]

to L'Ancien Regime san

Thank you for your comment.

I've mainly drawn with snake brush in the free hand.

I selected from E-Pane menu "affects draw depth" and snake brush's tool option is "Tube / Hemisphere"

If filling space of the many thickness, I select the "Grow or Clay Brush" + "Paint with drawn contour" in E-Pane menu or simply fill by snake brush.

If don't need a thickness, I select the "Fill Brush" + "Paint with drawn contour" in E-Pane menu.

[Garagarape]

Interesting technique and great result! Thanks for sharing!

[takanari]

to chris_solo san

to artman san

to Garagarape san

Thank you for your comment ! I'm happy that you like this work.

And This is my new images.

As well as create the whole body by drawn line with snake brush and fill by grow brush in the free hand.

[BeatKitano]

I like working with sphere snake brush tool in voxel mode too, reminds me of the old days with amapi and laying out a spline cage before getting into the actual polygon creation

It's really fun to work like that but it takes and awful lot of time, it's nice to see someone using that technic and getting good results.

[takanari]

to BeatKitano san

Thank you for your warm comment !

3D-Coat is very interesting that can drawn in many unique way.

And This is my new images.

I tried using "Pose" for adjust the arm angle.

Bend from masked by "Select with pen" is it useful.

And if combined with E-Pane "Paint with drawn contour", I was able more easily fill bend mask.

[takanari]

Oh, I have a small question.

I found the "Save selection" in the Pose Tool Options,

I have tried using it immediately but an error will be displayed.

"Mesh structure was changed and stored selection can't be applied to the mesh."

.....What I wrong ?

I don't edit anything while select the Save selection > Clear selection > Load selection.

[BeatKitano]

Are your running the latest beta ? I just tried (without editing anything) and it worked. You need to not touch anything that modify the topology (no removestretching tool, no liveclay tool).

[takanari]

Are your running the latest beta ? I just tried (without editing anything) and it worked. You need to not touch anything that modify the topology (no removestretching tool, no liveclay tool).

Thank you for your advise !

I've tested with a simple model in 3.7.18F, And I was able to get a good result in this version.

I will continue to work back to 3.7.18F.

Thanks.

[BeatKitano]

Unless you want to stick with 3.x cycle I suggest you get the v4 beta, 12b is particularly fast (and seems somewhat reliable sculpting-wise) which would help you with surface sculpting. Those betas are updated quite often and you can have both 3x and 4x installed on your machine without any issue.

[Edit] I'm confused looking at your sig you already know about v4...

[takanari]

to BeatKitano san

Thank you for your advise.

Yes, I found V4 BETA11 OSX in this thread.

3D-Coat V4 Beta testing thread

But 3D-Coat can install separately 4 Beta and 3.7.x,

I will using more stable 3.7.x with check on "ShowBetaTools" until release of the 12b.

Thanks.