Week 3: 2D3D - Continuing Concepting and Layers in ZBrush

This week we continued with our concepts in ZBrush. This was definitely not my favorite thing to do in ZBrush, but I can see why its important to learn.

Building an environment in Zbrush I found to be a bit difficult if the buildings are supposed to be circular or exaggerated.

What was due this week was mocking up and creating 12 concepts of something. I choose to do environment.

Here is my final verions... Below this I will go over my process:

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I was unable to continue the city layouts from last week, so I started over for the most part.

Instead of focusing in on the city, I wanted to build around the city and focus on depth, perception and size.

From the beginning, I took my initial landscape and sculpted four different versions of the landscape that the city could sit on.

To make the city more interesting, I created a new layer of my favorite city layout (the windmill pattern), and warped the buildings into more interesting shapes to give it a looming cartoony feel.

From there, I used the base sculpt and crated two layers to generate a total of three concepts from one layout.

I repeated the process above to get my final results below for the sculpt.

My landscapes are mostly light trees, bushes, roads and rocks, and I represented each of those roughly in the sculpt for me to give my attention to while I paint overtop of each. 

After I laid out these renders, I took them into Photoshop and added in the trees and added small details to the mountains and rocks. This is my final result.