Italian grenadiers orchestra

[MAX.I.G]

Hello! I start new project this is first figure. Wait for critique

 

[pgarri27]

Very nice. How long does it take to digitally sculpt a figure?

 

[MAX.I.G]

from 5-10 days

 

[RKapuaala]

Max,,, very nice figure.... hard to believe it only took that long. You are fast young man

 

[Merryweather]

very nice -what sculpting software do you use?

 

[MAX.I.G]

Blender, zbrush. 5-10 days its only is you have already rigged body and other details. I have big library of Napoleonic weapon and ammunition

 

[RKapuaala]

Good idea. I gotta a small library going, mostly shoes and hats, but I'm thinking of perhaps doing a doughboy from WWW I so I better get cracking making rigles and helmets I guess. As far as rigging , all my figures have different faces not sure that would be possible, but you've set my mind working. Thanks for the info Max.

 

[mash3d]

Great model. Question on posing.
Sorry if this is a complicated question.
What exactly is your workflow?
Are you adding the uniform and weapons as Sub tools with the figure in a T-pose and then using the Transpose master plugin?
Or are you doing everything as a T-Pose in Zbrush then posing the model in another program?
Thanks,

 

[MAX.I.G]

Blender3d give me possibility to use rigging with high poly objects. So I make all in T pose.

 

[RKapuaala]

Those are excellent cloth deformations do you have to add those in after posing? Or does blender allow you to add weight maps for clothing deformations?

 

[MAX.I.G]

yes! weight maps and cloth simulation too.

 

[RKapuaala]

Cloth simulations are part of Blender? Or is that something you have to program in yourself?

 

[mash3d]

Cloth simulation is part of Blender. Do a search on youtube for "Blender Cloth Sim" and you should find a few tutorials.
Plus Blender is free so it costs nothing to check it out.

 

[mash3d]

Blender3d give me possibility to use rigging with high poly objects. So I make all in T pose.

Thanks for the info.

 

[RKapuaala]

Mash,,, I have a copy of Blender already. I just didn't know it had cloth sims. I did a few riggings in Blender, but it takes so much time to do a good one I started using DAZ3D studio which will transfer the rigging for you no problems. It also transfers weight maps but it has a hard time with weight maps especially on higher poly count figures, so I normally do a neuter pose, save it, then make the clothing, import then and use the transfer tool to fit the clothing to the figure and its pose. Then I export each article of clothing and the neutered figure and stitch them together in mesh mixer. Prior to stitching I sculpt the wrinkles and creases in. It's sort of like laying layers of wax on a sculpt to drape the clothing. Not sure I want to give up on that technique quite yet, and I am definitely spoiled by the rigging transfer tool in DAZ.

 

[mash3d]

Yes posing is a bit of a bear. I've been using Zbrush and Modo's Flex tool. Between the two I can usually hammer things where I want them to be.
But I still need to nail down a more time efficient work flow.