"Moon Fever" Body Shot

here's just a quick update to my previous post, here's a quick render of the whole body, rendered with V-ray in 3dsmax, rendering time 45 seconds

"Moon fever" short animation facial expressions

hi everyone, it's been a while since I've posted anything in the blog about my work in 3dsmax even though the forum is called "3dsmaxer", kind of got all excited with Zbrush 3, those who haven't tried definitely should :), so here it goes... I am working on a short animation for my uni Major project called "Moon Fever", the main character is a Pan (a forest creature, comes from Greek Mythology and resembles devil), I have just finished modeling and texturing his body in Zbrush and 3dsmax and doing his facial expressions, to export normal maps from Zbrush I've used XNormal, a great free software, for the tutorial on how to convert displacement maps to Normal maps please refer to the tutorial in the previous post or click here:
http://3dsmaxer.blogspot.com/2007/06/exporting-high-quality-nomal-maps-in.html

here's a pic with 3 of his facial expressions, rendered in 3ds max with V-ray (1st image 25 seconds, second image 35 seconds, third one is 22 seconds, all of them are at 1000x1000 resolution) please tell me what you think :)

Exporting High-Quality Nomal Maps in Zbrush (Tutorial)

Since the release of Zbrush 3, many people were complaining about Zmapper not being integrated into ZB3 and also the fact that normal map functions are not working at all.

There were found the ways to create normal maps in ZB3, one of them was to create a displacement map, crop and fill the document and then to apply a normal rgb material from zbrush 3, it is a way, but the mormal maps end up being a very low-quality and with a seams problem.

So I have found another way to produce and extremely Hight-Quality Normal Maps without waiting for a new Zmapper and the quality of the maps is soo good that personally I dont need a Zmapper at all.

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Zbrush 3 WIP 1

I have experimented a little bit with a zb3 tutorial listed in my previous post and I have came with a following concept, it is still only a WIP (Work in Progress) so your comments would be greatly appreciated :)

Sculpting realistic looking muscles with masks in Zbrush 3

so here it goes, my first tutorial in Zbrush, I am usually very bad with writing stuff, but thankfully in zbrush 3 now you can record everything you do to a quicktime movie, so here it goes, enjoy and don't forget a popcorn :)

here's a link to my tutorial video on YouTube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bfLOO4lXmk4