Hey all, I wanted to create a new studio based profile so I can share some of the work we are doing here over here at RedFly, and how we integrate Zbrush into our games/cinematics pipeline!
We just put out Mushroom Men:Truffle Trouble on Steam and created a 3 minute short intro cinematic for the game to set up the world and what is going on with Pax, our hero, so check it out!
You can check out the full Cinematic HERE!
Audio was done by Gleek here in Austin and we had the pleasure of working with Les Claypool from Primus on a few tracks which can be heard in the cine intro so stop not being cool and go watch it!!
Shots were assembled in Maya and rendered with Mental Ray, all elements and FX were comped in Digital Fusion and final show was assembled and graded in Adobe Premiere! I may take some of the more complicated shots and break them down in a future video showing exactly how all the elements were rendered out and comped with FX/matte work if anyone is interested.
The Truffle Princess!
Concept Art by Frank Teran
She was pretty crazy design wise so it was really crucial to use Dynamesh to go in and start quickly laying out forms and finding what worked and what didn’t, as she could easily end up just a big messy uninteresting lump, trying to keep her blobby and gross but keep the forms working with each other and supporting the larger forms was very challenging to say the least.
Here is the final Dynamesh layout, I really cant imagine doing this any other way, Dynamesh is where its at for quickly prototyping shapes and forms, feels much like sculpting and slapping chunks of clay onto the surface and quickly seeing what works and what doesn’t -
After all the final forms were resolved to an acceptable level that I felt would work, l I took the mesh into 3Dcoat for retopping (Zremesher wasn’t out at the time 
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Final Sculpt!
Was done pretty quickly (I think I only spent about a day adding all the final sculpt detail and moving things around with the move tools) and knowing she would have some final texture and bump detail in the renders I felt I could stop at this point and still sleep okay at night, one of the hardest things is production discipline! I could have easily spent more time refining and adding detail but the time in starts to diminish quickly around this point, I find that around the 85-90 percent mark is where I stop noticing the work in an sculpt in a final shot, but can easily be where I spend most of my time sculpting, so I try to keep that in mind as I am finishing out a piece, we are a small studio so those wasted days quickly add up!!
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I watched the video twice, it is simply amazing, really bautiful work. Great job
