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#1

Hello all

I’m new to this forum and I’m looking forward to begin using ZBrush and to benefit from your collective wisdom and synergy. I’ve been lurking here for a while and I must say a lot of the work you guys do is amazing.

I was wondering, has anyone tried to use ZBrush for jewelry creation? If so, I would love to see some of that. I believe zspheres have a great potential for making jewelry to export to other programs where one can prepare it for rapid prototyping.

Thanks for any insights

#2

Sure.

Here’s a challenge that was recently done on the subject, and another piece that I created a while back.

#3

Hello and welcome! If you go to the gallery that Aurick has noted in his post, you will see 3 of my jewellery pieces. I am particularly fond of creating jewellry myself, and I find Zbrush an amazing program to work with for this. Although I am certainly not an expert at Zbrush, I have learned a few tricks etc. So if I can be of any help to you, please just ask.

:slight_smile:

#4

A ring done using ZSpheres…

#5

Very well done SC! Nice to see a post from you again! :slight_smile: :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1:

#6

STONECUTTER!!! I MISSED YOUR POSTS MAN!!!
Welcome back and what a nice return work!

#7

StoneCutter:

Great design, and a great gold material you have there. :+1:

Would you tell us how you created that material? Thanks! :slight_smile:

#8

One just for you Mr. Houdini…(And to respond to the original question regarding Jewllery production in ZBrush…)

#9

Sorry Jaycephus…I missed your question first time around…
The material was designed in the LightWave Material Editor…I use ZBrush for the beginning of the modelling, because it produces a quick mesh, but I prefer to design materials in LW…I can ‘stack’ 250 layers into one material if I want to…Just a workflow preference.

#10

Wow… Thanks Mr.SC!! :slight_smile:
I really like it. If you give permission I´ll name it the 21st century version of the Eye of Ra.

#11

Well H, it already has a title…It’s called ‘Stabbed With A Glance’, but you can call it anything you want… :smiley:

#12

You did it, you name it. :smiley:

#13

That’s great work, thanks Stonecutter and aurick. The work in the gallery is really cool too.

#14

Here’s another jewellery making idea Feldrave…This is a ‘letter T’, done in a fancy font, two copies, one rotated and placed against the others’ base. This is then taken into ZBrush, ‘Alpha Skinned’, and that produces this ‘link’ which I am using to make a necklace for a series I’m doing of ‘Surrealistic Jewels’, one of which I posted here…I hope it stimulates some experimentation… :slight_smile:

#15

wow SC!! Those are really beautiful! Glad to see you post! Hugs!

#16

Well done Michael! I like that link!

#17

For the interested parties, here’s the basis for the link…

#18

Nice to see you again Mike! :smiley:

#19

Some pretty nifty stuff there. :+1:

I think that “T” link is pretty cool, too.

#20

thanks sc…