View attachment 161 Playing around with Sculptris. I'm definitely liking it better than zBrush for actual sculpting, although it lacks the booleans that are so useful for BJD sculpting specifically. And here's a pic after I brought her into zBrush, to use another feature Sculptris doesn't have: Morph targets. Sigh. I really wish Pixologic would merge the two programs' functionality. View attachment 174 (click for larger image) Crits are always appreciated!
Sculptris is free to download and (relatively) easy to learn. And the actual sculpting is just practice & observation & banging your head against the wall of "argh why doesn't it look right" until it starts to look right. ;P I'll probably work from the body I've already made for Kitpandi... which I made by starting in Maya to kind of block things in, and then merging & refining shapes in zBrush. I don't recommend that if you don't already know Maya, though. Something simpler & free, like Wings3D or maybe Blender, could probably work. Or even just working with Sculptris and/or zBrush... I just like being able to define an actual pivot point for when I test joint rotation.
I actually have already downloaded Sculptris and this is why I know how much work it is to learn that...
Yeah... I guess when I said "relatively easy to learn" I meant "relative to a program like Maya," not "relative to using real clay." :/
Aaand I couldn't resist the lure of zBrush's morph targets. It's just so handy to be able to make a change and then slide back and forth between the two versions. But now she's all polgon-y, and I can't seem to smooth her out... may have to go back to Sculptris for that. :P
there is something about the dome of the forehead that bothers me a little. Might just be the lighting though? The face is adorable
