Hey everyone,
Model I sculpted out of the generic head tool. Beginning steps in a work in progress, trying to find a suitable workflow to put zbrush in our pipeline. Pupils and iris’ pasted on in photoshop to make sure dimensions are ok. Critiques welcome!
best, mike
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Hi Mike,
Looking good, maybe the mouth looks a bit small. The space between the upper lip and the nose is too big compared with the space from the lower lip and the chin. It looks a little bit unbalanced in my opinion. Also the nose seems a bit flat at the bottom, at least from that front view. Keep it on! 
thanks Danko, looking closer you are absolutely right. Am going to go over and try to balance out the head- mike
My first time using the retopo tool in zbrush, having some problems but making progress. pretty messy hopefully i can get it cleaned up. any tips or suggestions please welcome. 
Hi everyone,
completed my first attempt at retopology. A little messy, but happy with my first result. I wish I had used these tools sooner but am glad progress is being made.
Also, I sculpted his head in with perspective on. Is this method typically used, or is it traditional to model with perspective off?
Tips and critiques greatly appreciated. Best, mike
Hi everyone,
Finally found my workflow i have been working on, sculpting-retopo-uv, now i have to texture and render him out. Here is a quickpose I did while at work yesterday, comments/critiques welcome.
mike
hi everyone,
a quick texture to try out sss shader settings… making progress, but nowhere near the final result i am looking for. If anyone has any tips or knows of any good tutorials let me know! Also the eyes are from a jpg online, I am going to change them once I get the ball rolling.
mike
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nice work,
the retopo tools can be a pain but there is a good tutorial by someone on this forum, check the tutorials board, im sorry but i cant remember who did it but will see if i can find and post a link
the mental ray sss is also a difficult one, not only does the result depend on the shader settings but also the textures you paint and use also,
not sure what software your rendering with but gnomonology has a great 3 part breakdown on that particular shader and i think its about 12 bucks. other than that there will be alot of info in the help of your particular 3d software.
dave
update: here is the link to the retopo tut and many others
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=53087
and the sss tut
Thanks Dave,
I am definately going to grab that gnomon tutorial, thanks for the tips. I am using mental ray with maya, and am trying to get a better understanding of all the sss settings.
best,
mike