I started with the Modo Man base mesh, chopped off his toes and rebuilt them to work as shoes. This was brought into ZB and I used the polish brushes to kind of sculpt some rough planes on the surface until I had a basic look that I wanted. I wanted to roughly follow the concept art for Rinzler.
Brought this up to it's highest subdivison level and cloned it, and removed all the lower subd levels. This gave me a really high poly model to generate groups for the various suit parts. I masked out what I wanted, and poly grouped each section, used group loops to add mo details, and then used masking on the appropriate groups to inflate just the parts I wanted.
I then added in a tube holder on the right leg, then re-projected the whole thing back over to the original mesh. This then got brought back into modo to retopologize the holder area a little better and then re-projected as needed back in ZBrush.
Then I started to setup the texture maps for him. I generated these using a combination of ZBrush's UV Master and modo (for the head), and then used the high-res polygrouped model to generate poly paint per polygroup. Once this was transfered back to the UV'd version of the model, it's possible to generate a texture map that you can use in PS to isolate any part of the model. I used this to generate alpha maps for the neck and waist details.
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| From 3D 2012 |
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| From 3D 2012 |
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| From 3D 2012 |
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| From 3D 2012 |
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And finally a (not very good - yet) render in houdini...
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| From 3D 2012 |
Note to zbrush/houdini fans out there - when you bring in the displacement map, remember to consider using the values in the Dicing tab of your geometry container that contains the geometry. If the displacement looks a little rough, try upping the Shading Quality (and possible the Ray Shading Quality) from the default of 1 to 2. This made a hugely noticeable difference in the renders and didn't seem to make much of any noticeable difference in render times.
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