

Your milage may vary.) It does have the bad habit of quitting on me. If that’s the case, I recogmend you working through the video tutorials over at ZBrush Classroom.Īs far as day-to-day usage goes, ZBrush seems pretty stable.

~ user interface) will be completely overwhelming. If you’re a complete newbie, the UI (a.k.a. You’ll notice a few different brushes or new stuff in the Lightbox, etc. If you have any experience with versions 4.x and/or 2018, you won’t be clobbered with many changes straight out the box. I’ve been getting more serious with ZBrush since version 4, and commiting to more heavy usage when 2018 was released. Pixologic has continued to capitalize upon the 3D space with more and more tools that make modeling and sculpting easier, faster, with more amazing results. Then later on, you could paint color and texture upon that same model. ZBrush was really the first program to allow people to actually “sculpt” a 3D model with a graphics tablet. But even back then, the sleeper features that everyone flocked to were ZBrush’s 3D modeling capabilities. Pixologic touted their 2.5D brushes and the magic pixol, which can be described as a pixel with packed with informations such as material, color, texture, etc. If I could try to describe ZBrush without becoming too wordy, I would say that it’s an illustration program with really awesome 3D modeling tools.īack when I dropped around $500 USD for version 3.5, ZBrush was touted as a painting program with a unique twist. Because in reality, I’m literally scratching the surface when it comes to 3D. I will be writing this review from the point of view of an illustrator who’s just getting his feet wet with 3D. (So I think.) My big goal for ZBrush is to use it as an additional tool in my illustration arsenal. Now I’m able to sculpt stuff within ZBrush. That’s pretty close to two decades! And for that long, I hadn’t been able to wrap my mind around 3D let alone create anything useful in ZBrush.įor some reason, in 2018, 3D has started to click for me. I’ve been dabbing (“dabbling” is being generous) with ZBrush ever since it made its debut on the Mac platform. But before I get too deep into this review, allow me to drop a few background details on myself. This is a review for the recently released ZBrush 2019. My very first sculpt in ZBrush that I’m not ashamed of.
