3D Creative December 2015

3DCREATIVE MAGAZINE | ISSUE 124
Get an insight into Zeno
Pelgrims’ workflow…
Designing some early motifs
The purpose of making Khlotharius involved
a few things, including testing my character
rigging pipeline and transferring the whole
light and shade pipeline from Maya to
Houdini’s Mantra renderer. In this tutorial I
will try to explain how I started in ZBrush and
ended up rendering in Mantra.
Concept: Blizzard Entertainment’s
01 characters have always inspired me,
and I’m a big fan of all The Lord of the Rings films,
so whenever I plan a character these kinds of
detailed ideas pop out from the back of my head.
Keeping that in mind, plus collecting some shape
references and design motifs of ‘elements’ such
as wind and fire, I created these motifs. They’ll
be used to design the armor details later. For
the character himself, I collected some anatomy
references from the internet, using Google and
Pinterest. I tend to use my memory for anatomy
sculpting for a little stylization, but whenever I get
confused I turn to references.
Starting from a sphere: If it’s a
02 personal project I always start from a
DynaMesh sphere in ZBrush. Using the Standard,
Move, Snake Hook, Inflate and Smooth brushes, I
create the basic form of the figure, as pictured.
Building a base mesh up from a sphere
Further sculpting: In order to build up
03 secondary forms, I love to use the Clay
Buildup brush in combination with Alpha06. By
using this technique, I create all the necessary
secondary forms, like bony landmarks and
muscle fibers.
Adding more form with Clay Buildup
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