hey guys!

It's been a while I haven't worked on my elite in some time. This is because I've been lucky enough to be apart of a book with vitaly bulgarov and vik sorensangbam! It's a tutorial book for zbrush.

I figured I'd show what I've made. So far it's just a high poly (that's all I was supposed to create for the book) but I do plan to low poly it for my portfolio. I was going for an evangelion look.

I'm not sure whether or not I'll low poly my elite or my drone first. Probably my elite, just to go in order. I may want to make a sniper rifle for this dude as well. Since he looks the type to snipe.

This is pure zbrush.

Here's the base mesh:


Here's the result of the high poly:

I love it, you were able to obtain all these hard edges with zsketching?


Absolutely amazing work! Reminds me of a Eva' Unit, I hope to see this low poly and ingame!

Wow that looks amazing!

it's retarded how awesome this is!

This is a fantastic character! Badass style dude.

So about this book...

My eyeballs just exploded from all this awesomeness!

Killer!!! Love it so far. Keep up the great work.

Those are some crazy proportions, but it looks awesome. I'm a little concerned on if it could move properly, but it looks like the joints were built with that in mind, and you could probably get away with some stretching due to the thin style, so hopefully it will work out.

deformable or not- those are some sexy forms.

Wow, that's hot! Love all the crisp edges!
It doesn't look like it's designed for movement, but it's still wicked.

Looking great!!
So... I have in e question. Since it seems like it was made all in Z, how 'in control' were you of the shapes being hard-edged? I love the outcome, super clean and believable - I am just wondering if it would be possible to follow an actual piece of concept faithfully with that technique, or if it kindof 'drives itself' (thats how I felt with many of the new Z brushes)

Anyways! Kickass surfaces!! Want to see more!

Oh this is delicious!

aaaaw. crap. This is good. Really good. Guess I HAVE to learn zbrush better now.

great work, man!

Very stylish character! Awesome!

I'm also curious about this hard-edged workflow in ZBrush. This looks soo clean. A very nice result and certainly means another option in one's hard-edged aresenal!

Another great proof that zb also does hard surface pretty well.

nice character!

I finished Metal Gear Solid 4 not longer than 3 hours ago, and I must say, this would fit perfectly in the universe, with the proper lighting, texturing, etc.
Brilliant work.

nice dude! the hips look a little thin from the front, but hey, overall great stuff. Your zsphere work is exceptional. Love the high tech muscle definition, keep the updates coming.

Whats the secret dude? ;D Awesome proof of hard edge sculpting in Zbrush. Would love to hear how you aproached it. Keep it going man!

+1 for workflow insights, looking great

Indeed. share your zbrush hard surface voodoo with us.

Looking awesome

wow, what book it is?

if i had to guess how this was done :

after you flesh it out in zsketch you go in and use the retopo tool to build up all the larger hard edge shapes, then go back and add in greeble details.. probably used some custom alphas, and just a metric ton of the new planar brushes?

you might be able to do it all with just the new brushes in zbrush, that just comes down to obsession in that case.