[def4d]

Max, you're the Scratchman!
Excellent as usual, i hope you'll show the unwrap process!
Don't worry for your lvl, cause you're still not a Killer, just dangerous (with or without knife)

[tokiop]

max, this is high quality ! the material beahaves very well !.. can't wait to see it with smoothing

[sandykoufax]

I've seen this first at this site, hehe.



Cool render, Max.

[-Adrian]

Hehe me too, i directly thought "hah, Maximus has posted new images". Very cool Max, love the antique material.

[simmsimaging]

Really nice brass material Max.

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[Maximus3D]

Hervé: well you sir are far more dangerous, i've seen what you can do with 3D and your food models and renderings is some of the best i've seen in years. I kept copies of your images here in my inspiration gallery great to hear you finally got to update your Modo to 301 now, then you'll get then new upcoming 302 release which should be out soon. True these meshes should be relatively easy to unwrap, but before i do i need to get some more modeling, tweaking (found some oddities on some meshes) and fixing problems.

def4D Scratchman lol that's funny, it sounds kinda like a cheesy artistname. I'm not so sure the unwrap process in itself is that much to see, it's boring enough to do and i can only imagine it throws people asleep when they read about the process, i would..

tokiop: Thank you keep in mind tho that these are tests and the brass material will probably not be included anywhere in the final renderings. It was just to viz the models with now. It worked for that.

Koufax: Hehe, you caught me! you know i was expecting someone to see them there, it was just a matter of time. Thanks for your nice comments on my renders hehe

Adrian: hehe, damn you too. Then i have to upload my upcoming images with the Private mode activated so you guys can't see them. Thanks for your kind comments on my renders.

Brett: Thank you! that material was something i started on for the xmas challenge but never had time to finish it on time. It's supposed to be a brass bell you usually find on the bells hanging on Santa's reindeers, around their necks and such. Or they're also quite common on horses in some cases, or a both indoor and outdoor decoration.

Some news about this.. i was supposed to work more on it this weekend but other stuff got inbetween and i haven't got anything done either yesterday nor today i lost lots of valuable time i could have used to finish off such things as the unwrapping and Zbrushing but nooo that time went down the drain. Hopefully i can speed things up now and finish the final modeling, do the unwrapping dance and start singing the Zbrush song all within 1½ days now.

Thanks again so much all of you, your comments are so fun to read i had a great laugh once i got home now today and could see them.

Cheers!

/ Max

[Hervé]

ahhh Max... you're too gentle... 302...? cool !

1,5 day..? ok... I take your word !

[Maximus3D]

Hervé: 302 does look like a nice upgrade, and it should be a free one if i remember correctly. Which is ofcourse even better!

Time for a small update tonight, not much to say but i attempted to do some Zbrushing on the leather part and here's how it turned out. I think i have to redo some parts, it looks kinda cheesy here and there.





/ Max

[KurtS]

thats a great update Max! Looks excellent!

[killian2828]

Wow, I'm tuned in now. Great job Max

[Bubbaloo]

Nice zbrushing!

[Maximus3D]

Kurt: thank you! it could still need some tweaking and fixing, the sculpted mesh is a bit "wobbly" and rough. I'll fix those things tomorrow.

Killian: Hehe, thanks! glad you like it.

Bubba: Thank you!

The worst thing of all remains.. sigh, to get a successfull move between Zbrush and C4D, in other words reapplying the displacementmap in C4D and make that work with Maxwell. And those tests i ran tonight were not promising, infact they didn't work at all. I have to rethink this tomorrow again to solve it somehow someway.

/ Max

[JCAddy]

Max, it's fairly easy to export from Zbrush to a displacement map. Are you having problems with C4D importing the map somehow?

Looks great btw.

[def4d]

Maaax
When finished, this knife must have its complete tuto

[ivox3]

Beautiful stuff Max .. showing quite a bit of finesse.