2D to 3D! Sculpting a Female Baseball Mage from Start to Finish ⚾ GRAND SLAMS ⚾

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Hi everyone! I'm Follygon and in this video I am showing you my entire character creation process from start to finish. We are starting from a 2D concept from Luigi Lucarelli ( / helloluigi ) - I'm a huge fan of his work, definitely check him out! I'm going to be creating this 3D character through digital sculpting in ZBrush, showing you all of my tips and tricks along the way. ALSO I recently got my very own 3D printer! So I'm very excited to share some of my future 3D prints with you. I've been printing for a long time and it feels so nice to finally have my own machine. Currently I'm printing my ZBrush 2020 beta dragon but I will be trying to print characters that I create in my future videos for sure. Hope you guys enjoy checking out the process and as always, let me know if you have any questions or suggestions for future videos in the comments section. That's all for now, talk to you again soon! ✌️
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[@mozzarellastikks6936]

Is anyone else amazed on how close she looks like Amity from The Owl House even though this came out 2 years earlier? She has the yellow eyes, pinkish-purpleish hair, witch ears, and has piercings.

[@gonegale]

yess lmao i was like is that amit- oh 2 years ago

[@IAmFish0]

maybe disney was inspired 🤨

[@aidanscholl4647]

I was thinking the exact same thing!

[@musicbyella3769]

i saw the thumbnail and was like “that’s amity that’s amity that’s amity TWO YEARS AGO” like literally verbatim, out loud. she’s even got similar piercings

[@apsonus165]

Owl house came out in January 2020 and this video in February 2020. 😂

[@Kryckryc]

Ohhhhh, I would love to get into digital character sculpting, and this is sooo inspiring~ :D

[@blastix9891]

I read this really sarcastically in my head

[@Kryckryc]

@@blastix9891 nahh nahh, it's just the way I sound sometimes. This genuinely tingles my creativity brain cells~

[@TK-sr2hz]

You wont last a year. But if you do. You'll be great at it :)

[@Kryckryc]

@@TK-sr2hz he he, I will last out way more than a year out of pure passion... And spite ;D Have a good day~

[@soteleon6709]

I sculpt on clay, and I really want to try sculpting in digital, there´s a lot of figures that are almost impossible to do in some sizes with clay, the details are too tiny, So I was thinking to buy a resin printer too

[@IAmBackMan]

Those renderings, man... Extremely well done!

[@yourannoyinglittlebrother8595]

What you know about rolling down in the deep

[@UncleJessy]

Congrats on the 3D Printer!! Can’t wait to see what you do with it. Starting to learn zbrush and loving your content!

[@cactuz116]

Another amazing piece, cant explain how motivating it is to watch these, especially when you go through the process from start to finish (but somehow make it short enough to not get boring 😁)

[@IyeViking]

You’re a big inspiration for me with Sculpting, Ive been learning ZBrush in my spare time (which has been quite a challenge, haha) and this sculpt was absolutely great and those magic aura things turned out great as well.

[@PeonyMilk]

Beautiful work! And the "grand slam" message was really inspiring. I've been in a rut lately with personal work. I'd like to remember why I started drawing in the first place and maybe get my motivation back.

[@greyy_19]

2:07 T H I C C

[@Auraclaw]

Nobody: Body dysmorphia: You look like this 2:10

[@chillfactory9000]

exactly LMAO edit: i mean, for me its gender dysphoria but

[@jandastroy]

You make this look so easy, I wish I had your level of spatial awareness. I have to learn more about the tools you are using!

[@andrembcosta]

Great video! I totally agree with the grand slams you talk about, I have several collections on artstation similar to that idea, those select pieces that drive me to get better being it stylization, sculpting, texturing, even some 2D pieces that resonate with me even though I only do 3D. I would really like to see what's in your Grand Slam folder that keeps you pushing forward

[@badpablo7982]

Amazing talk you gave near the end, I've been really interested and aspiring to learn to model and feel like I might be past the age where I am able to absorb or learn new things, I am currently at my late 30s but most of the time I'm spending so much time admiring 3d sculpts and hoping I can learn.

[@TwisterTH]

I really like the design of this character and the process of the sculpting.

[@leandrosn962]

Loving your videos. The way you block forms really make it easier to understand!

[@Gr33nDeman]

Grandslam is right! Nice job! Cant wait to see what else you 3d print as well!

[@pixojoy]

Awesome vid, Folly! I liked the grand slam talk, very inspirational :)

[@cutekitten4395]

I loved this sculpt so much, I can't wait to see something once you've finished the resin printing! Keep up the amazing work!

[@darkthorn45]

i see that digital character sculpting is difficult and takes lots of patience but would it work as a animation too, if so how?

[@Follygon]

Look up retopology

[@darkthorn45]

@@Follygon do u think retopology is more difficult than just sculpting or is it just same effort but more things to do?

[@maartens9933]

It's not as mindtasking, when sculpting you need to think of more things lik proportions and how what you sculpt fits in with what you already have. Retopo is imo easier and more of a zen/relaxing task. Although you do need a good grasp of what a good retopo is. If you do want to do animation with a character like this I think the rigging aspect of it is more challenging than the retopo :)

[@PixelBytesPixelArtist]

Gamer-Darkthorn retopology is something that you can automate 99% of the time

[@khannarmurr]

Making a grand slam folder right now! Great video man, you're work is phenomenal

[@holzmann8443]

I thought from the thumbnail you were making an actual sculpture.

[@Follygon]

the ol bait and switcharoo

[@Saveord]

Lol rekt

[@mast5245]

Elfrolled

[@meizumi]

h o w

[@caesarin0]

@TheOpenhobby I'd assume physical is harder, since you have more tools in digital and can literally create something from nothing

[@therealgarlicbread3481]

My last brain cell sees blue fire: *It’S aZuLa*

[@pwhite102]

your blockouts are awesome. I immediately see a mesh I want to work with and make more detailed!

[@nuggetnougat]

You're so enthusiastic and peppy I LOVE IT

[@asberd3321]

wow!What you're doing is unbelievable I'm in shock it's beautiful

[@AfterSkyStudios]

Beautiful work :o!! This sculpt is amazing!

[@ayer10y]

Awesome man, I love the vibe and your comments! Subscribed :)

[@ArtDumbster]

For stuff like this is that I want to learn 3D modeling! Very nice video!!!

[@wolfprime]

Holy crullers! This sculpt is amazing!

[@shell7351]

this actually inspires me-I want to do 3d modeling sometimes,and this looks really cool! i actually just saw you on my reccomended,so i guess new subscriber

[@johnmccanntruth]

Very cool! Then to see it 3D printed, Gran Slam!

[@alexcarlton929]

Been playing with my photon for awhile now, If you can get prusaslicer I strongly recommend checking out its auto supports. They will save you a ton of time in cleanup. Love the sculpt, as usual makes me want to go pick up one of my perpetually on hold projects 😄

[@johndoe25555]

Awesome work. So cool to have that in 3d printed figure.

[@MRYBO]

I recently found your channel and I really love how your sculpts look! I hope someday I can make 3D art look as beautiful as yours. I am just starting learning, I don’t have a computer so right now I am only using the ipad for 3D, and your videos have helped me a lot when you talk about your workflow and remind myself to not rush. I would love if you could make a video about how to make 3D sculpts that will be detailed for 3D printing but not too heavy (I want to use 3d printing service and they have file size limits ) but I am having hard time not loosing detail.

[@Bionitech]

Another channel I subbed to with a 3D printer! It's spreading! (hyped for more)

[@laudatesolem2185]

Wow it looks hard and time consuming Very well done!

[@KittyPikaChu]

I should be studying for my history test tomorrow but 3d modeling is so much more appealing rn

[@adrianomaly1760]

Thanks for sharing your process! Totally agree with the Grand Slam concept, it’s good to have a Gold standard to aim for and work to(wards).

[@Follygon]

Thanks Adri!

[@neighborlytoad-3938]

wow your videos really make me want to get into sculpting. this seems so fun!

[@Follygon]

You should!

[@quinnjdq]

Fantastic video, always love seeing your stuff and its helped me a lot with my sculpting! Only complaint is I'd love to see longer videos, its great to see your flow and sad when huge parts are omitted.

[@Follygon]

Yeah, definitely trying to balance between being informative and entertaining while not being too long of a video. Appreciate the feedback!

[@dirzz]

Incredible work!

[@DouglasParkinson]

She looks cute, but then I have a soft spot for elves and elf-like characters :) I've just got myself a Photon too, and I'm looking forward to learning how to use it. Will you be releasing the final 3d model, so that other people can print their own versions? I expect you would need Luigi's permission, but I would love to have her sitting on my desk.

[@caterinacasadei3032]

they usually sell the models, they can be pretty expensive (from 50$ to 500$) since they take lot of time

[@wilhelm992]

Thank you so much for stuff like this, it helps so much!

[@agepbiz]

Awesome work!

[@josephcornell3083]

your work is amazing. My goal is to get as good as you. I struggle with character creation and posing

[@purcubo]

thank u follygon, very cool and inspiring

[@lawrencelawine9082]

2:38 is kinda like this first: guidelines everywhere second: beatiful detailed drawn horse. too bad you cut out the most interesting parts. nice end result

[@ChaseAyr]

All that was actually cut out was adding more z spheres and resizing them. It was more like, guidelines everywhere, cut to even more guidelines everywhere. You just click to add zspheres in between others and resize them to try and get as good a shape as you can for your character. that appears to be all ya miss with that cut, and its definitely not an incredibly important step. Just more of what he had already shown.

[@vesselofgod1755]

That was so cool. You deserve more subscribers

[@mwilliamson9931]

Nice work 👍

[@charllay7282]

It's the hands from your stream!

[@israelimc14]

Thanks for the share as always!

[@jaymesl7360]

I absolutely adore this character! This sculpt is amazing, I hope I can make stuff like this someday. My only suggestion is that maybe the use of transparency in the ends of the hair could help really sell it

[@Follygon]

Cool idea!

[@jaymesl7360]

Follygon: thank you!! There’s a tutorial on KZbin called “making hair with curves in blender” or something, and In it they use a shader made in engine with blender. Since you seem to render your sculpts out with blender, you could maybe use something similar with it if it’s not possible in ZBrush? I don’t know anything about ZBrush tbh. Anyways, I think if you did it would make the sculpt look absolutely stellar! You would keep all the stylistic benefits of sculpted hair, as well as not having to deal with particles, but it would also help it look less like sculpted clay! Anyway, love your work! I would be absolutely thrilled to see if you give this method a shot to see how it turns out.

[@saraminarai]

Omg I love your work 💕✨

[@user-wu7vt8je9b]

It's just awesome.

[@user-js2ew5xi1s]

3d anime? I'm staying for that)

[@meowzmorales]

I like your funny words magic man!

[@andcaru]

Thank you, So inspiring!

[@Clases3d]

well its true that I personally usually began my characters with blocking, but zspheres are not so limited, if you know how to do that you can do a bloching whith the zspheres using other forms, the new Zeezoo proves that, if you want to know how is done I can explan,, cool video though

[@gonzalodasilva1229]

i don't know how can you say it looks like garbage, please respect your art, it's very cool

[@kyofredart8676]

Awesome!

[@MDksa123]

I love ur focus on bad habit of doodling, it happens to me alot and i end up wasting so much time doing nothing so being aware of that is important

[@justanameonyourscreen5954]

Idk...some of my sculpture doodles turn into characters...

[@fedeyoshizato2830]

Love ur work!

[@Follygon]

Thank you!

[@SpecialistFrost]

Amazing bro

[@NickyAnimations]

Wow! Awesome work here! How many years of experience do you have in sculpting?

[@helios1051]

wow just wow maybe you could make a "transparent" effect on the blue flame?

[@omargutierrez466]

I loved it

[@test01lovesci-fi73]

so great

[@JonaDVargas]

Hey! Could you share how you render on Blender or point me in the right direction if you have please??? Thank you for sharing your process!!

[@baymaya4244]

this should be a roblox rthro avatar XD so cool!

[@deepaks1821]

Mesh gone crazy when I turn zsphere into polymesh 3d, what to do ,help me please.

[@GareGix]

6:00 : how did you had two mid-spheres from the eyes spheres please? With a low topology?

[@vazak11]

Cool!

[@amirshahryari5211]

that was clean well done,how did you divide the zsphere after finishing armiture to difirent subtools

[@greenzanman]

hmmmm maybe i should have a "grand slam" folder...

[@Foxy-uc6xn]

So good 😍😭👌🏻❤

[@MrShaundra]

I am a budding 3D printer guy myself and I do make my own figures. I don't use Z Brush but I've always marveled at the intuitive looking sculpting ability with in Z Brush. Is it hard to learn? I use 3D Studio max right now because that is what I was taught.

[@ke1zxnn]

Heck she looks like a video game character! She looks like her name would be Viviana. lol

[@prozacx]

It’s awesome rendering

[@MrEmilable]

How do you sculpt hands on a character? I always end up copy and paste int 1 finger to the others once I have sculpted because I never think. The other fingers looks as good as the frost one so any tips to for better hand sculpting?

[@playdesignvn]

thanks for sharing

[@user-vo6fd6gg6i]

Where can I find live streaming of this one? I'd like to watch it!

[@Purpylon]

Question: Do you still use a pen after 1:55 or do you switch to mouse and keyboard?

[@alphax_xomega5721]

this is awesome

[@grib3718]

Tried zspheres first time. Very conveniently

[@odumo24]

It is my first time seeing someone render in Blender rather than export to Photoshop. Feels very stage-like with the character actually standing under spotlights and cameras. Can you do a tutorial on how to export from Zbrush to blender?

[@devinbarr3428]

I have that sketch in my desktop because I was going to do a sculpture of it. Guess I missed the window😅

[@claraoucama1521]

So nice ! Wow I was wondering on which software you started to sculpt because I assume you didn't pay for a software without knowing how it would be and without trying some other ones before. I would like to try just for fun to see how it works I only worked on Cinema 4D before during school but it's definitly not like that! Anyway, I'm amazed O.O

[@mr_gloomiea8562]

well damn i wish i new how to use those programs, i'm too lazy to learn every tool and how to use it, but ill just have too, i want to create stuff like this

[@OliveOil1999]

Hi. Im new to the sculpting/3D model world. Im usually a digital painter, yet I did have a question: Can you rig sculpts like you can rig polygon models?

[@ythaenagor]

where do I recognize the bg music from

[@uwubippityboo3149]

I want to do that! It kinda looks like something fortnight would make for there posters or something.maybe they use the same modeling software idk

[@Stoneeeeemo]

im in love with that baseball mage why

[@Valaroy_Krim]

Damn Boi...SHE THICC

[@JMenchinton]

T H I C C C C C C

[@chyperz_carter4300]

if they were teaching this at school a LOT of kids would go I know I would cause I love art

[@grevel1376]

it seems so easy when you do it. Maybe a week ago I started speedsculpts of heads, I see improvememt, but it seems that it's a long way before me.

[@Follygon]

Sculpting is anything but easy

[@neighborlytoad-3938]

i’m not a sculptor, but i am an artist. and it i promise you isn’t easy. no matter how experienced you are or what type of art you make, everyone has lots of struggles. the advice i can give you is, only compare yourself to your past self, no one else. give yourself lots of time to improve and don’t rush, you have all the time in the world. lastly, if you ever find yourself hitting a wall, try to step out of your comfort zone and keep it fun for yourself. happy sculpting! good luck honey :)

[@Nonjola]

Why did you switch by the end of the video to Blender? What did you do to change or do in that software?

[@hardkorvin]

Hoooold on a second! What did you do at 2:37 ? Why zsphere connections become so smooth???

[@M3DM14]

I might be wrong, but pretty sure he clicked A which creates an adaptive skin. Then you can make a PolyMesh 3D from there at the top of the Tool palette ^_^ More info about it here: docs.pixologic.com/reference-guide/tool/zsphere/adaptive-skin/

[@victorg3740]

Amazing!. Do you know blender? Im iniciating on blender but i dont know if z-brush could be usefull for me, i mean, im kinda into make this kind of models, and i dont know in wich program is confortable

[@catkh4518]

Omfg the grand slams thing, literally! I learned and still learning 3d modelling cause I wanna do something cool with it and shiz, at first is was thinking of learning animation too! But my computer can't handle it after a certain point and that goes for modelling too :( and my tablet is a bit better for handling modelling but still has a limit that's not exactly at the limit I wish I had. I'm not getting discouraged tho cause I'm still starting out basically, but I totally feel what u said! I don't wanna make artwork that takes even a week to do and people only look at it for 4 seconds! I want something more! And right now I'm working on just simple models so I can even that out a bit but I still feel a bit off cause I wanna do something with this and have a reason to practice real hard at it. Cause rn I'm practicing but even a model like this is bit "draining" cause I know there's not gonna be a lot of recognition... But if I feel like I have a stronger reason to practice then I wouldn't mind. But mentally it just erks me cause I feel like I don't have a strong reason too. Where in reality I do technically because I am, like I said still starting out technically and this will help me explore so i guess it could be just for me but aUGH! - thanks for reading this if u did cause I just went on a random rant and I'd be surprised if u lasted this long😅

[@tumnum4718]

I would like to know the short-key to open some tab like tab brush, tab geometry.. @@

[@DavoMora]

Awesome work... I with I can take your course, but I have to wait a year until I have the money :'(