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Published: 2009-12-17 13:27:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 17854; Favourites: 271; Downloads: 1279
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Hey guys, so these are the passes i've used. each and every pass is generated from particular matcaps found in Zbrush.I really like this method because lets face it, there's a whole lot of matcaps available online with various effects.
my general approach when it comes to these passes and setting their blending options in photoshop is to set any and all ambient occlusion or cavity like passes to multiply, whereas specular passes and fresnel passes are set to screen and lighten.
hopefully the image will be sufficient for you to figure out what went down, hehe. but i will gladly take questions.
This is my first tutorial post because i find this rendering technique as the least technical and what it lacks in the awesomeness of other renderers it makes up with the amount of artistic freedom you can have while playing with the passes.
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I'm looking at this for inspiration right now. Was this strictly zbrush?
Of were base meshes made in another program?
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a little bit of both bud. However, you can do all of this in Zbrush as well 
Take your time with the model, make some nice custom alphas or download them. and use as many subtools as you like.
I've used alot of extractions, panel looping, the dam standard brushes, and a lot of polishing. hope this helps.
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I should have been more specific though, were the armor pieces made in zbrush?
Or imported from another program?
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Looks awesome man.
Thanks for the reply.
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hey Kassarts, this is awesome, thank you for opening up your workflow! could you explain your layers in photoshop? I went ahead and tried this method, but my render looks waaay off from the awesomeness you have here. Cheers
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hehe, well for the specular passes you'll have to play around with the levels and color balance, and maybe try reducing the opacity of some of the passes
I've kept the specular layers on top of the Ambient occ layers.
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very nice man, I want learn it, but its hard.
Your work is very good man.
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i dont understand any of this, i wish i knew 3d? how long did it take you to become so pro on 3d? i hate the technical side of things, just love the creative flow of a graphic tab n pen
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well it took alot of years of self studying, trust me, 2 or 3 years back, i wouldn't have understood any of it either...you just gotta start slowly somewhere with a few tutorials here and there, and you should be fine after getting used to it
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working with parameters and stuff in 3d software is soo hard! i ge mind boggled by all the different tools!
Damn i need to learn this stuff
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awww, ur too kind,heheh, thanks
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Oh, and very nicely done too, of course.
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Kass could you share with us were did you get the Darken Edge Matcap looks very nice as a spec pass thank you
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oh, its one of the default matcaps in 3.5
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Great to see all the different stages to a wonderful piece.
c:
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So is the final version a composite of all those maps?
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heh, cool
think the amazon is really outstanding anyhow, nevermind the technicalities
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When you're that hot who cares if the outfit is practical?
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Final product looks sweet.. possible to post what blending modes where used for each layer for the final composite ??
Great work again
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Dude, this is sick! Thanks for sharing this with the community!
I will be trying it in a week or two with one of my new characters at work. I'm sure I will have questions and if not I'll send you a render to check out! Thanks again!
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What an awefull workflow X_X
I wonder if Zbrush will afoard multipass rendering one day. But yeah, I know, some people just love to postprod. ^^
Anyhow, thank yu very very much for this ittle tutorial. And for the share of thoose matcaps.
Hey, looks like 3.5 helps with applying differnt mats to differents poly selections?
Oh and finally, didn't post on the final image: congrats on the image btw. Meka parts are just perfects! Girl is sweet too. Exceedeing boobs ^^ Just the least hidden skin parts hun? ^^
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Anyone know where to find all the Matcaps? I want to try this on some of my work.
I cant find some of the matcaps.
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I'd love to watch a tut on your process of making the armor.
Awsome stuff!!
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kick ass as always habib...
btw... did you graduate yet?
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fabulous "step by step" bro
do you have some kind of tutorial/lessons to recommend for the ones who wants to starts learning 3D?
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Thanks for posting this, will give it a try with my first ZBrush character once its finished
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This is a great design, really well done, but I gotta ask ... where's the belly button?
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Very nice! Love the hard sruface modeling. By the way a link to X_Undoz Occlusion Matcap would be awesome. I tried a search but nothing was found.
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I really should get Zbrush since it works well in Wine (Platinum Rating, which means it may run faster than native Windows).
Ah, it makes me drool. Guess I'll just keep doing sculpting without it, though. XD It just seems like it would be so fun to just lift and push features right into the model.
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How do you make an screenshot with that high resolution? can you tell me please?
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oO that's amazing.
So when people say they used 3 render passes or whatever, it means the image was rendered that many times and then layered in photoshop ?
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Cool, thanks for clearing that up
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nice idea
How do u model those arms? theyr look awesome! (zbrush tut*cough*)
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