ZBrush Alternatives

The top-rated alternative to ZBrush is Blender, which is free and open source. People also recommend 3D-Coat, Cinema 4D, Bforartists and Armory 3D. 3D Modelers like ZBrush are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad and the web.

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  1. ShapeWorks is an innovative and extremely beginner friendly program for effortless 3D digital sculpting. Its fluid interface enables artists to quickly give shape to there imagination. No need to go through several hoops, hassles to remember several key shortcuts and tire...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
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  2. Meta 3D Modeller is a three-dimensional modeling tool type modeling clay, capable of 3D painting. 3D modeling to create organic forms with greater stability than the previous version and new tools for painting and texturing facilitating their creativity.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. 3DCrafter icon
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    3DCrafter (formerly 3D Canvas) is a real-time 3D modeling and animation tool that incorporates an intuitive drag-and-drop approach to 3D modeling.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. PlastiSketch icon
     1 like

    An easy and simple solution to create 3D Objects from Vectorgraphics within minutes for use in videogames, 3D printing or animation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
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  5. picoCAD icon
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    picoCAD is a program to build and texture lowpoly 3D models. Programs for modelling are overly complicated, picoCAD aims to make it fun, easy, and accessible by focusing on the bare essentials. This program was made using pico 8.

    131 picoCAD alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. Topogun icon
     7 likes

    TopoGun is a stand-alone resurfacing, and maps baking application. The resurfacing functions in TopoGun will help you modify and/or recreate the edgeflow of your digital 3D models. The maps baking functions, will help you bake various types of texture maps from your high...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. Instant Meshes: A free quad-based autoretopology program.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. Pointshop3D icon
     2 likes

    Pointshop3D is a system for interactive shape and appearance editing of 3D point-sampled geometry. By generalizing conventional 2D pixel editors, it supports a great variety of different interaction techniques to alter shape and appearance of 3D point models, including cleaning...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. Nirvana 3D icon
     1 like

    A game engine written in Python, extending support across multiple GPU devices with 3D rendering, PBR Renderer and much more.

    102 Nirvana 3D alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
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  10. Archipelis 3D icon
     2 likes

    With Archipelis 3D, creating 3D content is accessible for everyone. No need to be an expert to create organic shapes and textured 3D models.

    42 Archipelis 3D alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  11. Dilay icon
     6 likes

    Dilay is an open source, easy to use 3D sculpting application. With an update, roughly, one every 2 weeks, it is well maintained.

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. Face Gen icon
     13 likes

    The easy way to create realistic faces 3D human faces from 1 or 2 photographs or at random. Adjust age, race, gender and 150 other controls. Apply faces to any polygonal mesh and UV map. The free version has the full functionality of the paid version except for exporting to e.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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