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Here's something I made over the length of the day.

hehe, cool! I thought it was a chest burster for a min. One day huh? man you work fast..

Dude, that's cool. And in one day? That is fast. :D

Thank you :) Yup one day. It's really quite a simple mesh. ZBrush makes modeling intricate organic shapes fast and quite easy. I think in Lightwave it's about 480 polys. Once it's all meshed up in ZBrush it sits at 1,700,000 plus polys. That will be translated into a Displacemnt map a normal map and a bump map. and then reapplied in Lightwave to make the low poly look hi poly.
That will take almost as much time to finesse around as making the mesh.
I might try an Alien Drone next. That or a Predator.

Agree - very nice and for a days work.

This reminds me of something, but I can't think of what. It's been bugging me. I might be thinking of a creature from a VG or something.

Awesome ZBrush work.... do you mind posting a shot of the low poly LWO mesh? It would be really interesting to see where this beastie evolved from.

Cheers! — Möe

There you go. That is the LWO as it stands at import into ZBrush.

Whoa! That's a pretty dense mesh. You've really bumped up the sub-division level when you brought it over to ZBrush. Good stuff.

Thank you! — Möe

This is the original mesh in LW.

holy crap, it looks kinda like a... nevermind...:lol:

Tadpole :)

yeah, yeah thats it... a tadPOLE....:lol:

No wonder RIPley hates those things :D

Very well done

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Awesome

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Nice work, and in one day i wish i could only be that good!

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One day? I'm impressed! And damn fine mesh if you ask me!

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Thank you but it's not a huge accomplishment when you use your base program and ZBrush.
Even though ZBrush is it's own program I think it is the best plugin for Lightwave that I've ever invested my money in.
It lets you build/sculpt at an insane pace.
I've seen far nicer looking work over the course of a day by other people.
Thanks again :)

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still scares the p**s out of me ..

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Good then he's giving the desired effect!

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yea .. but ,, but its causing havoc .. might get a shock some time if I accentually enter this thread ..

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I wouldn't say it's not a huge accomplishment. I've never used Zbrush (heard nice things about it, though) but I'm sure there are people who don't have that kind of success with it. Sometimes stuff seems like it ain't no thing to you but to others it's mind boggling.

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I just wish sometimes I was closer to people so I could show them at a sitdown just how quick you can get things done. I appreciate the kind words though.

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I've never seen Zbrush in action, so I have no idea how it works and such. If it's anything anything like Paint Deformation (3ds Max), then I can see how you can quickly paint details like that into a mesh.