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 Web-based apps. The best ZBrush alternative is Blender, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like ZBrush are 3D-Coat, Cinema 4D, Autodesk Mudbox and Bforartists.

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  1. 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
     
  2. Dilay icon
     7 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
     
  3. Dead Deer icon
     3 likes

    Dead Deer is a 3D modeler, 3D game maker, and a 3D demo maker designed to create games.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4.  Like

    iDough is your digital sculpting app, letting you bring the art shop along anywhere you go. iDough allows beginners to get into digital sculpting and professionals to do their work on the go.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  5.  5 likes

    3D texturing tool. It supports, .3DS, .X, .OBJ, .LWO and .B3D.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Plopp icon
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    PLOPP is a creative painting tool for cartoon-like 3D scenes without the effort that comes with professional 3D modelling programs. You can build 3D objects very easily! Just paint them in a 2D environment and PLOPP will transform them into 3D!

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Sculptopa icon
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    Sculptopa is a browser-based mesh editing tool designed as a lightweight alternative to desktop tools like Meshmixer and Blender. It focuses on practical workflows such as cleaning, repairing, sculpting and preparing STL and mesh files without requiring local installs or GPU hardware.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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