So I get my February issue and I’m reading along…yadda yadda yadda…then this article about ZBrush and ZScripting appears.
So I’m reading and reading…and then they quote this guy in the article…
Who the hell is Matthew Yetter??? 
hellifino…did they diss Zbrush? if so lets burn em’ at the stake…Salem flashbacks…muhahahahahahahaha /me strikes a match
Ooooo I got the firewood…
NO! nonono! I was kidding.
Mattew yetter is Aurick!
The article is great. It’s short, you want me to copy it in this post?
Hmmm. Looks like I need to find a place that carries that magazine. I’m looking forward to finding out what I said.
post it post it hurry up whata waiting for LOL run hurry 
yeah post it…LOL…hope mathew got some money out of the deal
I´m waiting for that post Kathy…
I´ve heard about Zbrush for the first time in that magazine long time ago but only now I know what I´ve been missing. 
We know Kathy! We was just playin along. We wouldn’t want to hurt ol’ Aurick now would we? I would like to know what the mag said too.
Why are you being naughty teasing these guys so much? Post the article, we all want to read what is going on. Kat, Please…
Okay here goes:
coughs-clearing throat
“Scripting Powers Up ZBrush”
Version 1.23b of Zbrush, the painting, texturing and sculpting tool from Pixologic (a company that is clearly careful with its version numbers) offers a good deal of new functionality. One of the most notable features is Zscript technology, which allows users to automate tasks, create tutorials and utilities, and record any part of the creation process to be accessed later or shared with other users. According to the company the scripting language is easy to use and does not in most cass requries programming skills.
Other new features include expanded layer mangement; additional 3D tools and deformations; better inegrations with other 3D tools (Lightwave, 3dsmax, and Maya models can now be imported into ZBrush, for example and painted and retextured); and 2D/3D masking. Texture Master, an inlcuded Zscript utility, allows ZBrush’s painting tools to be used to create textures that can be interactivelly applied to a3D objects. these objects can be created in ZBrush or imported from another application, textured, then exported to the original application. Citing the ease of use of the new version (as well as ZBrush in general),
artist MATTHEW YETTER SAYS," I FIRST STARTED USING THE PROGRAM LAST APRIL WITH NO ART TRAINING OR BACKGROUND. NOW LESS THAN A YEAR LATER I HAVE PUT OUT A NUMBER OF TUTUORIALS ON VARIOUS ZBRUSH TECHNIQUES. I AM ALSO CONTINUALLY PIONEERING NEW WAYS TO USE ZBRUSH-BOTH ON IT OWN AND IN CONJUNTION WITH OTHER SOFTWARE."
ZBrush 1.23b runs on both Mac and Windows operating systems…ydadda yadda
Aurick you are a PIONEER!!!
Anyway, that’s all folks.
Thoughts and comments welcome.
Cool Aurick. Actually Computer Graphics World was where I first heard about ZBrush as well. I rember the article had the illustration of that woman with the black hair and the orange and black leather jacket with the ZBrush logo on it. I guess she’s the ZBrush Mascot?
lol kathy… im sure that are pioneer friend must me happy right about know… way to go mat…youve been published…i would ask for some money now…lol.
LOL. No, no money. And considerably more ego than I would have believed.
The interesting thing is that if that’s the entire article, she didn’t directly quote a single thing that I said in response to the questions that she asked. The quote was from the letter that I’d sent her when I was told that she was looking for someone with ZBrush experience to interview.
Typical reporter, huh?
To be honest, I’m a little perturbed. I put a lot of thought and effort into answering her questions. Reading what she wrote, I can see a few places where she might have referred to those answers, but that’s it. FYI, she didn’t even offer a thank you for the time.
Incidentally, did Fractal Garden end up being published? She’d said that she planned to use it for the illustration.
For the record, that is verbatim.
I didn’t think it was a full direct quote from you aurick. Just didn’t sound like you.
I also think the article is weak, and poorly written. It is actually very flippant at times.
I didn’t like it, I found it to be one of those “I got stuck writing about an app I don’t know anything about and I don’t want to know anything about.”
And what the heck is that remark about version numbers? Just proves she has NO clue about the TRUE meaning of version numbers.
Oh well.
Magazine editors, journalist and the publicity machine as a whole has only one goal as we all know. Profit.
This sort of canabalization of a persons narrative is common place the world over. I have yet to see a piece of work make it into print without some form of editorial butchery. I can only presume that by altering the text sent in by a contributor it makes it easy to justify needing someone to do it, ie. keeps people in jobs.
In my other life I suffer from a very virulent disease called media hype. I work for a very large company in the UK and if I/my colleagues even breath a wrong word within ear shot of a camera/jouno/reporter they are all over it like flys round…****
Well done Aurick and one good point about all this is that we, as an online community, are spreading the word about our dearly beloved program, and that can only be good. Even if the words we spread are not the ones that left our fingers.
Glen.
There is no such thing as bad publicity.
well glen beat me to it…the article may have been nice to begin with then the editor disects it into whatever manipulation they would want to slant it into. Or the reporter may have sucked and the editor just said hey, the letter is better than yer article…Or the reporter may have not met their deadline and all the editor had to go with was the letter…there is no telling…that is why imagery is much better to a large degree than the written word…its a bit harder to edit an image I would think…
Dear Aurick, i can tell you yes, it’s a tipical reporter, too often who write is not for passion but only for money, and interview are time waste… they ear some part of that you tell, and write their version…
there are few exception, when i wrote for italian magazine, and i did some interview, i report full answer, but there is a big reason, i have passion in me and i not did it for money, i did it for passion, for pleasure to met and talk with some great artists.
don’t worry.