ZBrush Alternatives

ZBrush is described as 'Advanced digital sculpting and painting tool with customizable brushes, real-time capabilities, and powerful rendering. Perfect for diverse creative fields' and is a popular 3D Modeler in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to ZBrush for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad and iPhone apps. The best ZBrush alternative is Blender, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like ZBrush are 3D-Coat, Autodesk Mudbox, Cinema 4D and Bforartists.

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ZBrush alternatives are mainly 3D Modelers, but if you're looking for 3D Painting Apps or Digital Painting Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Free, Android, iPad and Linux. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to ZBrush.
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  1. Sculptfab icon
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    Sculptfab is a very simple tool letting you sculpt 3D models in the browser, and publishing them in 1 click to sketchfab.com.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
    • Nirvana 3D is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to ZBrush.

    • Nirvana 3D is Free and Open SourceZBrush is Paid and Proprietary
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    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

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
     
  4. PlastiSketch icon
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    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    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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    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 types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Topogun icon
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    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

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Topogun is not an alternative to ZBrush as it doesn't have any sculpture features. Instead, Topogun is used for retopology.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Topogun is Paid and ProprietaryZBrush is also Paid and Proprietary
  8. Pointshop3D icon
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    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...

    43 Pointshop3D alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. TrueSculpt icon
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    Model a virtual clay ball by pushing or pulling it with your fingers.

    Many tools available: draw, smooth, flatten, paint, undo/redo, symmetry, ...

    Imagine something, sculpt it and share with others.

    12 TrueSculpt alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  10. 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.

    129 picoCAD alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Face Gen icon
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    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.

    24 Face Gen alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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