Zbrush Head Sculpt 31 - Caduceus Clay 

Thank you very much! Glad the videos help you a bit. I wish to do more but I'm currently in the middle of finishing my diploma film that takes most of my time. Tutorials take quite some time to prepare so I do these speedsculpts to not get rusted and there are a lot of fun to do! I will do more tutorials in the future for sure though like on the eyes/mouth/nose

Appreciate it!

A fellow critter!! Thank you very much I appreciate it! If you have any questions feel free to ask anytime

Really glad to hear that I appreciate it! :)

Glad you like them!

Thank you!

Wow that's awesome! I wish you all the best!

@@FynnGB Thank you so much! You have no ideia of the inspiration that you are. I posted my very first timelapse video... if you ever watch it for some reason I really hope you would like it.

Thank you very much! I'm Glad you like it!

@@FynnGB I really like your minimalistic use of brushes. And by the way, thank you for the discovery of Critical Role, I actually have a good time watching some of their episodes. Have a bright day.

Thank you! All the best to you as well!

Thank you!

Glad you like it! :) That sounds great! I still have to catch up on the second campaign but I have to finish my diploma first! They're all really great characters so that sounds like a nice project! All the best with your work and practice!

Fynn GB Thanks! Good luck with your degree! CR content will be there for when you have the time to catch up!

Thanks a lot! If you mean masking the rest of the model when I'm inserting other meshes (like the spheres) I can do that with holding ctrl and clicking on the mesh while I have the move/rotat/scale tool active (transpose line or gizmo) this masks everything except the polygroup that I click on (you need to have proper polygroups for that but as long as you don't create new polygroups the insert meshes automatically create new polygroups to work with)

Thank you! It depends on the stage of the model and the final polycount depends on the level of details that you want. This one was 7million points (which should be around 14 million polygons) for the head and the upper half of the torso. For super realistic characters like Thanos from the avengers or digital doubles I would estimate that the polycount might be around 40mil just for the face. But once you get into such a high level of realism than things get really technical and it becomes a mix of displacement maps, high frequency maps, shader parameter and sometimes even simulation to get the fine skinpores crisp. But it really depends on the project in the end. I like to test out the resolution on a prominent area of the face (or whatever you want to put detail on). For that I just use an alpha and stamp it onto the surface. If it holds the details well than great if not I add more subdivision levels until I'm satisfied. Hope that helps!

Fynn GB Thats very helpful!! Thank you! I’m learning anatomy and trying to improve my fundamentals. Your incite is greatly appreciated. Your work is excellent! Thanks!! 🙏

Glad you like them! I usually use the material that comes with the default 'DynaWax128' project that you can find in the lightbox under projects. I then dial down the wax modifier of the material down to around 20-30

Thank you Rui! Unfortunately not at the moment, but I would like to do some in the future! I'm thinking about doing a patreon as well but I want to finish my diploma project first before I can commit to a consistent schedule for videos and tutorials. Thanks for the support I appreciate it

For these smaller projects I like to keep things more on the sculpting side of things instead of diving into the technical stuff like grooming. Especially when I want to render it in arnold where I would then have to setup a hair system (with xgen or something similar) and then get into painting maps for the groom which I don't often want to do for a fun side project like this one