There is no need to do everything in low poly modeling anymore with modern technology. One of the major troubles that blender has it creates bad pipeline habits or workflow habits, from what I've seen on the sculpting or finished product end. Or obtain copies through cd key distributors and 3D party sellers, and other less seemly methods, of the pegged leged, and swashbuckling variety. It also stands to reason that Zbrush is expensive, however, you can purchase a lifetime copy of the program so you don't need to shell out money every month. You can quickly mask an area in an orthographic view ensuring perfect symmetry, then extrude that via the 3D gizmo, which is similar to zbrushes scale options, but with greater functionality, easier to use, and honestly less janky software. One of the things I really enjoy about Zbrush and it's selection of brushes and its deformation tools. Zbrush just has a lot more additional UI elements that can be confusing if you don't know where to start. Where people get stuck, I think is that they often start with blender, find the UI different and have difficulty changing habits. It's a pure misnomer that Zbrush's UI is more complicated and less intuitive, you can learn the basic features of both programs in roughly the same amount of time. I'm pretty sure I can create a sword in Zbrush in about 2 mins or less with reasonably complex topology. It's almost like a hot knife through butter in how quickly you can take simple shapes, combine them and manipulate them in zbrush to create complex objects quickly. A great set of tools for 3D modeling miniatures. And that not even including the deformation suite that Zbrush has where you can actively deform 3D models easily, such as bending, resizing, twisting, tapering, inflating etc.
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Zbrush comes with a brush called Zmoddler that once a primitive is loaded from the side menu can be extruded and manipulated in less time, with less complexity, with greater speed than Blenders modeling suite, and has staggering additions on top of blender that can be easily accessed by pressing the space bar that put blenders modeling software to shame. If remember correctly it's one click on the side menu primitives then one click on edit mode. The Idea that Zbrush takes three steps to make a basic cube is simply incorrect. If someone is making low poly hard surface assets, like copious counts-as weapons or boxy vehicles.why pay for premium software? PondaNagura wrote: Aye, but free also means accessible.Īnd it depends on what a person is intending to make, be it virtual or tangible, and the level of detail in the final product. If someone is making low poly hardsurface assets, like copious counts-as weapons or boxy vehicles.why pay for premium software? I could never get the hang of sketchup.Īnd it depends on what a person is intending to make, be it a virtual or tangible, and the level of detail in final product.Ī high detail character sculpt for resin printing can be done in blender (or sculptris), it will likely take more time and extra steps to get the same results as zbrush, but it can be done more leisurely than rushing to make every dollar count on time. I only recently have been able to get zbrush with their 6month plan (a dollar day, not bad), prior to that I was content using a combination of sculptris and blender. I used a cheapy bamboo and gimp for years to get enough paid gigs to afford regular photoshop and an intuos pro. Granted, not the most user friendly until 2.8, but then zbrush 2021 still takes 3 steps to make a basic cubeįree-ware also lets some form of work be done, and can be a handy stepping stone to build up to being able to afford premium tools. zbrushcoremini was only released a few months ago, I'm not surprised people don't know about it.īlender has been available since the early 00s.
Now many of the bigger companies have come around to released free-ish versions of their software, but that's only been the case in the last few years. Not every creator/hobbyist has spare 30-50usd/month to throw at industry-standard software subscriptions, they'll only get to use in their side time.
I agree if one has the financial resources, zbrush features are worth the money for making complicated quality sculpts, once you get over the initial UX hurdles.
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