Sculpting Scales in ZBrush

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[@saltyskegg5355]

This helped me get through a mental barrier with sculpting this type of detail. Thank you!

[@IGarrettI]

I relate to that!

[@grib3718]

scales are frustrating

[@rhinocerosunicornis4148]

Thank you

[@upowlnight]

incredible

[@nicolaizafra9705]

Thank u so much!

[@user-zv3go3kd5m]

thank you

[@gustavorodrigues3496]

ohh, you`re incredible!

[@MartinNtilias]

Now do the rest of the body too, but also make the little guy be a diplodocus so the head to body ratio is really small!

[@knl654]

nice

[@inkjunkie1016]

What brush are you using to pull the scales out after you flip the mask?

[@chrisperron7691]

From what I can see, looks like "FormSoft". At least that works pretty decently for me when I'm trying to do this myself. :) But I can't get nice clean extrusions, I can definitely see polygon stretching when I try it. I'm also on SDiv 7, my model (just a head) is around 7 million polys, but maybe that's still too low for this?

[@inkjunkie1016]

@@chrisperron7691 SDiv 7 I would think would be enough polys that you shouldn't get that stretching effect. But I coukd be wrong lol.

[@ubercactus5612]

I'm making a full raptor myself and I Retopoed my model in maya after i had my first slightly detailed mesh (around 2M poly), that way i got a 3200 base mesh which i smoothed to get 20k or so polys before exporting to Zbrush and there I cranked it up to Sdiv6 with around 13M polys and a better distribution, the difference in resolution when masking is noticeable, you could try that!

[@dannywaterss]

I made a basic lizard mesh, thinking I would use the pre-made brushes:
*hysterical* *laughter*

[@dragonfire810]

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