The Interdimensional Traveler: A Full Body Character Design - ZBrush Creature Design: Creating Dynamic Concept Imagery for Film and Games - page 172

Before we move on, I'd like to share some thoughts from a good friend and incredible artist, Zack Petroc.
Zack has been a huge influence on my work as an artist for years. Zack has been developing a graphic novel
created entirely with ZBrush and Photoshop. I invited Zack to share some of the details of that process in
this topic to show some of the unique ways you can use ZBrush to illustrate creatures and characters.
Adaboy and the Saints of Alchemy: A Sculpted Novel by
Zack Petroc
Thanks to Zack Petroc for contributing this section! In 2005, Zack, a model supervisor at Disney Feature
Animation, opened Zack Petroc Studios, which focuses on the development of unique new content and one-
of-a-kind training. The Studios' first independent project, Adaboy , gives viewers direct access to behind-
the-scenes story development techniques, allowing them to follow along as the story evolves from concept to
completed project.
The Story
Long before the Age of Enlightenment, in the secluded hamlet of Addletown, the orders of religion and al-
chemy shared a precarious but peaceful coexistence. A deadly explosion in a rogue alchemist's lab upset the
balance and gave the church leverage to outlaw alchemy once and for all.
Thirteen years later, the alchemist's first son works to secretly rebuild the alchemical order. In an attempt
to destroy these new elixirs of science and quell the uprising, the town's religious elders unwittingly unleash
hordes of underworld creatures and the roving dead.
As their defenseless town is sieged, a ragged band of children escape into the surrounding forest. Led
by Adam Lamarck, the alchemist's second son, the children must rescue their town. Placing their faith in
the alchemist's untested weapons of science and the moral code of their upbringing, each child must choose
between selfless actions and self-preservation.
The Process
The team at Zack Petroc Studios is using ZBrush in the creation process of its first media output for Adaboy ,
a downloadable animated comic. For this example we'll be looking at the creation of the Rambouillet
creature as it is revealed for the first time, entering the alchemist's lab ( Figure 3-77 ) .
Figure 3-77: The sculpted comic panel revealing Rambouillet for the first time