Yes, I do have Max, but I don’t see anyone spending a ton of time building organic models with NURBS, embellishing to the extreme in ZBrush/Mudbox, and then rigging just for the purpose of a simple composition/lighting reference in Manga Studio. If we are talking about generating 3D materials for use with Manga Studio, there is little need for such expensive software. I suspected from your suggestions and omission of Lightwave that you come from a games background, where Maya (previously 3DS Max) reigns supreme. All those same movies had their base modeling and animation done in Lightwave, though. Still, I suspect the use of ZBrush is limited to normal maps used to speed rendering of heavily massed objects, and possibly for concept work (while ZBrush/Mudbox simplifies matters, it’s patently false that the end results could not be achieved with conventional modeling tools). I stand somewhat corrected, since there are a number of recent movies listed among the bevy of games there. Log in to Reply ↓ Piledriver Octoat 08:43 You left out Lightwave, too… a more common program for film and cg-anime production, as opposed to games. Max’s ProBoolian function being able to work with a “mesh” shell, as well as it’s stability, makes it pretty hard to beat. You will notice that even the architectural models that come with Manga Studio use textures to fill in most of the detail for the same reason.Ĭould you post a link to those subdivision plugins, though? That’s something Wings 3D lacks as well - so when I get to the point that I need to do such things I have to export and go into 3DS Max. If you were to build a model with the high polycounts typically generated by ZBrush, I think it would cause Manga Studio to crash, or at the very least bog down your system. They are used primarily for the creation of normal maps to give the illusion of higher detail, mostly in real-time renderers (video games). Those programs use algorithmic methods to increase detail generally in a way that is too inefficient for that kind of work. Log in to Reply ↓ Piledriver Octoat 20:51Īctually not true about ZBrush (or Mudbox or Sculptris) being used for film projects.
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