Sculpted Shoes

I have been looking at tutorials for the past 3 days on zbrush and AC3D. I have seen some REALLY good scupltie shoes out there and I would love to know how to make them. Any tips would be helpful. I can't find a decent tutorial on AC3D all the ones I have found are on ytube and those are well... really hard to follow and figure out what they are clicking on. I found some tutorials over at shiny for the zbrush that are great! I would like to understand the diversions more though. How can I go from a sphere into a shoe?! lol. Also.. I couldn't make the mushroom no matter how hard I tried in the tutorial. I guess I need to be able to make the mushroom before I even TRY to do the shoe. *sighs* or a shoe pad like that you would find in a real shoe. (I found some over at DDD and they are freaking AWESOME!!!)

Helpful tips? Tutorials?

I don't believe a tutorial exists and I will be shocked if someone ever makes one. I think if you can't make a mushroom yet then shoes are out of the question. Shoes are tricky and require precision.

I've been trying to make some nice heels for a little while now and I've finally made something that I was proud of, though its not finished yet. The thing that worked for me was trying to make other shapes.

The more you practice the more tricks/shortcuts you'll learn and you'll have a better understanding of how different shapes can be transformed into new ones. Soon you'll be able to apply all those things to make something you really want.

I would suggest lots of practice and trying Blender because its free and it seems like most people are using this or Maya so there will be more help if you need it. Plus Domino M. made life saving scripts!

And maybe not life saving, but good to know, that we got the tutorials... especially "the blender primer" could help you to jump start into blender ( htpp://blog.machinimatrix.org/video-tutorials ) the other tutorials have mostly been made with and for Domino's life saving scripts...