DANIEL ARIAS // STARQUIXOTE
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Extending ZBrush with Python: one plugin shipped, one experiment closed

ZBrush is where I spend my working day, and it has never had the one small thing I kept wanting: a persistent color swatch palette. ZBrush 2026 shipped a new Python SDK. Could an AI agent and I use it to build tools I'd actually keep — and while we were at it, find out where the SDK's real ceiling is?

169 turnaround sheets, cut into Instagram carousels by the site's own pipeline

Thirteen years of sculpting left me with hundreds of turnaround sheets — multi-view renders of every figure and ship. Publishing them on Instagram means cropping each view into a carousel slide by hand, which is exactly the kind of chore that guarantees it never happens. The intake pipeline for this website already knows how to find the subject inside a sheet. Could the same analysis cut carousels automatically?

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