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This video is how to use the Mesh Insert Tool. This tool will alow you to take multiple meshes and combine them into one mesh.

Added some music to the real time render inside of Maya's view port. Music is by Eric Serra from the fith element sound track "Five millenia later"

3D template made in ZBrush and then brought back over into Maya to build final geometry.

Here I will build the skeleton for the alien shark.

Video that shows the alien shark in real time in the Maya view port.

Video that shows how to make a custom alpha in Zbrush to use to detail your model. I will then take a sphere and then project the final shape back down to a sphere.

Final turntable rendered in Maya with animation. I am not an animator so don't laugh at my horrible animation. This is just a test for the characters motion and deformation.

Here I will use poly painting to paint the color information for the legs.

test to see the normal shading on the alien shark

This is a move that I put together to show how I made the cliff face for my illustration.

Turn table rendered in Maya that shows the character animating.

Video that shows the driver skeleton, the FK arm and leg skeleton, the IK arm and leg skeleton, the deformation skeleton and the rig that I built for the alien shark.

Here is the final pose that I made from the illustration file, this model can be used for rapid prototyping.

Showing how I made the arms in ZBrush using z spheres.

second part of the broken wall video.

Base mesh modeled in Maya and then sculpted in ZBrush 3.1

Here is a video that I made that shows how to project detail from one mesh to another using the "sub tool method" This is pretty easy to use.

Another resurfacing video in Maya. Music = Conjure One - Center of the Sun

Here is a report that I presented to my studio on how Sony generated their waves for the surfs up movie.

This is a video that I made that shows how to add sub division levels and open up displacement baking to a resurfaced mesh after detail and color has been projected from anouther mesh.

Here is how you can take a hi res mesh, resurface it, then project the detail and color of that Hi res mesh to your new retopologized mesh. Very cool stuff.

Here is a quick little video on how to sculpt skin pores in ZBrush.

made with Zbrush 3.0's new poly paint feature.

PolyPainting – Painting color on your model that are UV independent. Convert texture maps to poly colors or convert poly colors to a texture map.

Cavity Masking – Automatic depth based masking.

Real-Time Shadows – Working with real-time self shadowing in ZBrush.

Layers – Working with 3D layers inside of ZBrush.

Working with multi-piece models inside of ZBrush.

Sub Division Levels – How to work with Sub D levels for sculpting at various detail level on you sculpture.

made with ZBrush 3.0 and Zapplink.

Here is a time - lapse movie that I made with Zbrush 3.0. Created with just a sphere.

This video will go over the use of Maya to resurface a Hi resolution mesh.

This is a time-lapse video of a resurface session in Maya. This is a small section of a resurfacing tutorial that I am creating. I thought this might get people excited about the tutorial that is coming soon. Peace, NickZ.

This is a Human Elder 720 turntable that I made inside of Zbrush. I just wanted to try out a new video resolution and format

This is a 3D sketch that I made using the new Zbrush 3.0 go to www.pixologic.com to learn more about the applicaton.

This is a 360 turn table of the model that I created to test out the new ZBrush 3.0

Here is a first pass at my 3D sculpting portfolio. Hope you enjoy, NickZ. P.S. Some things are still in a WIP state right now.

I made this video to help people get started inside of ZBrush.

made with the new ZBrush