In this post, I am showing a quick walkthrough the process of making a model. There won't be much reading- just a few notes after images. I will be making a sword ready for use with a character...
This is the concept image (with apologies to actual concept artists) for a slightly battle worn, bulky weapon such as might be used by an Orc or other evil creature...
Firstly, I build a base mesh outside of Zbrush- for this I will use Blender...
I build a fairly basic base mesh- no detailes, just enough to capture the overall shape of the sword. This is enough to get cracking in ZBrush...Zbrush modelling has a lot of stages, but luckily it allows me to capture a timelapse video, so here is the next few stages...
After processing in Zbrush, the final sword is ready to send to print or use on a character project. Here it is! Hopnefully, brief as this is, some light has been shed on the basic process of creating a model in 3D for miniatures, as opposed to using
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