The old space marine
Free Zbrush tutorial series, making of the character i created to introduce the new r2 features at the INTERNATIONAL VIEW CONFERENCE 2011 held in turin on the 26-28th of October
I usually apply other techniques to realize some tasks, but as i had to talk about the new version i decided to make a model that makes use of the new functions, so a lot of dynamesh, lot of splicing, and in the end i realized that the new dynamesh is really a great feature that can help in a lot of different stages of the production.
Some stages are not shown because while working on this i also started to livecast some sculpting sessions on my web tv, so check 'em out there
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20-posing the model
Time to study some cool pose and use the transpose master to make this guy look mode interesting. Read more
19-Using dynamesh for polygon reduction
Let's use dyna also to lower down the polycount and make the model posable! Read more
18-texturing with curve mode and spotlight
Curve mode can be used to texture nice regular patterns, and spotlight is the best friends to make decals (and not only) Read more
17-hand detailing and texturing
except for the first minute or so, this time this is a REAL TIMELAPSE. Read more
16-Skin texturing and lies
Painting the skin manually. Wait! Was not this supposed to be a no audio timelapse??? 
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15-sculpting finer details on the head
Sculpting wrinkles and pores. nothing more, nothing less Read more
14-texturing concepts put in practice
How to apply the theories explained in chapter 13. Read more
13-doctor danko's texturing techniques
Some techniques i used to texture the hard surface parts of the model, how to modify some brushes to create cool looking effects. Read more
12-surfacing the armour and using 3d layers
Creating high frequency detail for the armour and using the 3d layers and the morph target to mix all the different effects. Read more
11-modeling the weapon
Start from a simple cube to build the base shape of the weapon and then use dynamesh and other stuff up to the final form. Read more
10-sketching and modeling the helmet
Sketching the helmet with clay and hplosh and then use the sketch as a reference to build the final version. Read more
09-tubing, low poly meshes and booleans
Using the zspheres to add tubings here and there, working with primitives and low poly meshes to create bases for the insert mesh dot, subtractions with dynamesh. Read more
08-creating the armour glove
Working low poly to create the base for the armour glove and fingers, taking advantage of the new extrude function. Read more
07-Cloth and props
Using the curve surface brush to create a base for a drape cloth and modeling more props. Read more
06-the art of reusing parts and hard surfaces
How to use already made assets to create small details and props to avoid overworking and more hard surface work on the pieces. Read more
05-sketching the armour with dyna
Using the insert brushes to create base forms, and dynamesh with the groups option to remesh the different pieces separately. Read more
04-Hard surfaces techniques overview
A general overview to the techniques i used to create the hard surface details of the character. Read more
03-uv master and surface noise
Taking advantage of the uv master plugin to drive the look of the new noise by image function. Read more
02-Slice cut to separate the different parts
Using the slice cut brush and the close holes function to create different shells for the body pieces. Read more
01-Dynamesh the body
Using the r2 dynamesh and the insert brushes to build the body base mesh. Read more