Blender and Zbrush working together

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Here's two screenshots from Blender of two characters  I'm working on - Lord Xamachial and The Dark Prince (both still rough W.I.P's as you can probably tell)

I tend to always sculpt and render from Zbush (and then fiddle around in Gimp afterwards for good measure), but for these two I'm gonna try and do a little Blender 3D rendering.

So far the results look good (well, to me it does!)

More updates when I...ahem, update :)

The Dark Prince - Zbrush W.I.P #1

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This is a work-in-progress sketch-over of a Zbrush sculpt called The Dark Prince.
Click the image to view my notes on what I need to add.

I did a little sketch late last year of this guy, then a few weeks back began the preliminary stage of figuring out who exactly he is and what exactly he should look like.
But I've never quite got to the stage of making him - until now, that is!

The other day I made a nice new male base mesh in Zbrush and used that as the base to sculpt this guy from. I gathered up loads of my armor/fantasy reference and basically starting throwing ideas together until some cool shapes began emerging.

The image is mostly gonna be dark and focusing on the face, but I still want to be able to show enough armor detail because it will help make the character have character.

Dark Prince - Work-in-Progress sketches

I've been unfortunate lately and have struggled to do any art. First I had the flu and then I cut my finger so couldn't even hold a pen!
Anyways, I'm on the mend and doing this character provisionally  titled THE DARK PRINCE.

These are just quick and dirty sketch-overs in Gimp of a base mesh I've started in Zbrush. I'm trying to find the right  silhouette  and shape to the  character  before getting to work on him in 3D.
At the moment the one of the far right is my favourite...but still in the (very)early stages yet.