Sculpting a Smile Under Water

[@nebezial1]

a good smile sculpt is a masterclass on character personality. you nailed it!

[@elroyakomolafe4102]

omg, i wasn't expecting the bubbles wow!

[@owainart1421]

It’s been an absolute joy watching your progress since your early speed sculpts, one of the sharpest artistic intuitions around.

[@artofjhill]

tysm!

[@Lv7-L30N]

wow... you are amazing J Hill

[@АлександрБоровик-г3к]

О боги, это потрясающе!❤

[@swordexcalibur6202]

CRAAAAAZY GOOD!

[@markomilicevic2465]

AI "Artists" don't like this kind of videos 🤣Wonderful work as always!

[@artofjhill]

:) thank you. Happy you liked it

[@Gamestoper1515]

Huge inspiration for me frfr love your work

[@Neptoid]

The music is from Boneworks/Bonelab

[@gautamverma9694]

It does put a smile on my face

[@renamecard4490]

the rendering section of this was very cool

[@artofjhill]

Glad you liked it

[@ryuteam]

Really cool ! Love it !

[@Nozal]

That is absolutely amazing dude

[@DeJayAnimation]

Love it !!!

[@rafaelmiziara9734]

Hi J, awesome result (as expected :D); I really liked those caustics effects, did you make that caustics node? J, I know you don't use Blender to sculpt, but would you consider give a review on Blender 4.3 sculpt mode? The Blender devs made basically a full rework on it, which included things such as a huge boost on performance and brushs as assets; the opinion of a professional artist like you would be very valuable for Blender's devs and community :). Even you don't make a review, I suggest you upgrade to 4.3 anyway, Cycles recieved some nice updates too, specially to its volumetrics :D.

[@artofjhill]

Oh interesting. I’ll take a look and maybe try to sculpt an upcoming head or something. The caustics in this was from a $20 thing I bought on the blender store. A custom node setup for a spotlight

[@serik3d]

You're so good 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Strubey]

Who is the artist behind that reference pic? Kinda looks like an AI image based of samdoesarts style. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[@DBproductionsBadJuicy]

Likely AI. The results are quite nice.

[@dylanswint1271]

It's sad to say but AI art is the first thing coming up on Pinterest, google images, even adobe stock when you're searching for references. Sure, if you have a few favorite artists you can always check their page for references, but for making an original image like this (quickly) then using search engine results means you're going to work off of AI. welcome to 2024.

[@dariuscreighton8834]

And so what if that's AI?

[@marcs1223]

@@dariuscreighton8834some people wanna appreciete art made with hardwork while others dont, also some wanna support a real artist

[@ARTZA-_-]

So what if it is, it’s still good work. It’s still took skill and technical imaginativeness to pull it off.

[@sanyaca1]

Awesome stuff man!

[@artofjhill]

Thanks!

[@where.im.i]

so cool❤

[@flexenial]

I am working on smile character and this what i wanted!😗...Perfect word is made for your work🦾🖤

[@ZephrusPrime]

What was the VDM ear and IMM brows and lashes you used? Is your class going to open up any time soon?

[@artofjhill]

Hey the ear is a brush I made, the lashes and brows are by Nazar, and my class will open up for enrollment next month! cheers

[@ZephrusPrime]

@@artofjhill That ear vdm is CLEAN! You da man J!

[@Levi_Zacharias]

Those renders are wild

[@artofjhill]

:)

[@slipgatecentral]

nice!

[@artofjhill]

hey Slipgate!

[@shipisleaving]

godly...

[@masekpeter]

May I ask how you model your eyebrows and eyelashes? It looks like you already have it ready. thank you

[@artofjhill]

Yea for these quicker sculpts I’ve been using brushes by Nazar. They are poly models that you can drag out and place

[@masekpeter]

@@artofjhill oh very thank you! :)

[@CaptainNim]

could you stop being so good and save some skill for the rest of us

[@gpk98top25]

❤❤❤❤

[@danielfeng7641]

Hello! I’m wonder what he was doing at 00:49 and what tool was he using? Could anyone please educate me on this?

[@Duranvolt]

Zremesher guide, helps guide and control the topology for better edgeloops. I believe that's why he does that strong cut around the nose and mouth so Zbrush detects it and follows it more closely, then after Zremeshing and getting the desired topology he can go back in and get rid of it.

[@stalvancg]

❤

[@kimberlykatiti6969]

Please be my mentor 😭🙏🏾

[@ShaneOlson3dtoons]

This is super solid J. Sorry I missed you at LightBox this year. I would have loved to meet you in person. I’ll try and make next year.

[@artofjhill]

Hey Shane! Yea man would love to meet and chat in person

[@nekotiq]

Thanks for sharing your workflow again. Maybe next time share your screen instead of an undo history timelapse, maybe?

[@Wenedi]

??

[@artofjhill]

eh? this is my screen. there is even a link in the description to an unedited raw 5+ hour video

[@nekotiq]

@@artofjhillok maybe I wasn’t understood but I meant it is glaring where there is some parts the UI of Blender and ZBrush then sometimes not. I was asking for future videos so I can even see the brush used and settings. But it is up to you what video editing you do in the near future.

[@NIKARTIST89]

*IDC if its ai, I do real Art!*