 Editorial
Welcome to Issue 37! This month, on the back of our Beginner’s Guide to ZBrush tutorial series, we’ve gone ZBrush crazy! Not only are we kicking off one brand new 9-part ZBrush tutorial series for you this month, but we are also introducing a new series where we’ll feature 2 artists every month ‘speed sculpting’ from a brief set by 3DCreative, and we’ll show their tutorials covering the stages of creation – some even with accompanying movies, courtesy of the artists! But before I get carried away with that, let me first tell you a little about the new ZBrush tutorial series – "ZBrush Character Creation". This is a fantastic series which is being created by the most amazing ZBrush Sculptor, Rafael Ghencev.
You only have to take a look at his website to see the incredible talents of this artist, and we’re lucky enough to have him working with us over the next 9 months on a great tutorial series where each month he will take a generic, clean head mesh and transform it into one of our detailed character themes – this month we feature an old/gaunt man. Future topics will get progressively more complex and bizarre, as we move on to an obese man next month, and the tutorial series will end with a Frankenstein character. And not only is he sculpting these characters, he’s also texturing them! We’re all really excited about this series here at 3DCreative and we’re eagerly waiting to see Rafael’s next instalment, so stay tuned for the next few months as we get stuck into more and more detailed ZBrush sculpting, but for the first chapter check out page 67. Our other new ZBrush series is set to be ongoing, so we’ll keep bringing them for as long as we can, and as long as you love them, and this month we feature the talents of Alex Oliver and Jesse Sandifer, each interpreting the brief "Pirates – Past and Future". Alex Oliver has even generously provided real-time video footage of the creation process that accompanies his tutorial in not one, but 17 downloadable movies (yes, 17!). Jesse Sandifer has also provided 3 great tutorial movies showing his working process, too, and – as usual when you ask 2 artists to interpret a brief – the results are fantastically different, and I’m sure you’ll be impressed, so check out page 55 for those. We’re even providing the same base mesh that we gave to Alex and Jesse with the tutorial for free in this issue, so download the mesh and get sculpting!
We have two interviews this month with Alan Camara, who specialises in realistic and stylised 3D characters (page 7), and Eduardo Martín who is currently working on the feature film "Planet 51" at Ilion Animation Studios (page 17). We also feature a rather different interview this month in our Studio Interview with Q-Spheres – a studio that finds and photographs locations as HDR-environments! You tell them what you want, they go find and shoot it! Genius!! See page 27 for that one!
Our Making Of articles this month feature a Wolverine Tribute from Nicolas Collings (page 101), and a scene made by Esam Darweesh which was created as a response to past memories (page 107). Oh and don’t forget we’re on Part 2 of our main tutorial series kicked off by Richard Tilbury last month; note that in the November issue we’ll introduce the usual 5 software series parts of this tutorial, so it’s going to get BIG real soon! Hope you enjoy the latest issue from the 3DCreative team! Cheers,
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