ZBrush
Comprehensive digital sculpting tool offering advanced features like sculpting up to a billion polygons, customizable brushes, real-time painting, and powerful rendering system. Ideal for professionals in film, gaming, and more. Integrates with Redshift and supports Apple Pencil.
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Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- 3D Sculpting
- Support for scripting
- Texturing
- Handwriting recognition
Tags
- sculpting
- modeling
- cgi
- birds
- digital-sculpting
- 2-5d-painting
ZBrush News & Activities
Recent News
- Fla published news article about ZBrush
ZBrush for iPad: sculpt anytime, anywhereWith MaxonOne's September release, ZBrush for iPad has been launched, offering artists the ability ...
Recent activities
- nttldnknwn added Lightweight as a feature to ZBrush
- nttldnknwn reviewed ZBrush
For me, this is the best software for 3D graphics - really creative freedom instead of tedious polygonal modeling.
On the downside, it is paid for and lacks native Linux support, but at least the first one is quite forgivable - the software really deserves its price, and even more. Another minus is the lack of good documentation. When I was learning ZBrush, a lot of the documentation was simply missing, and what was present was very brief and outdated.
On the plus side, I can mention its...
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What is ZBrush?
ZBrush is a digital sculpting and painting application that has influenced the 3D industry. It offers advanced tools for digital artists, allowing sculpting up to a billion polygons. It is the industry standard for digital sculpting and painting, providing customizable brushes for shaping, texturing, and painting virtual clay in real-time. It is used by professionals in fields such as film, gaming, jewelry design, illustration, advertising, and science.
ZBrush facilitates the creation of models and illustrations quickly, removing the restrictions of traditional modeling. It provides tools for transitioning 3D sculpts into animation, rendering, or 3D printing pipelines.
The software supports real-time painting on millions of polygons, eliminating the need for preliminary texture map or UV assignment. It also has a powerful rendering system, BPR, and integrates with Redshift.
The iPad version of ZBrush offers additional customization and an intuitive navigation. New features include support for Apple Pencil Pro's roll feature and improvements to the undo history.
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Developed by
Maxon Computer GMBH. Licensing
Proprietary and Commercial product.Pricing
One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $0.Alternatives
54 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
For me, this is the best software for 3D graphics - really creative freedom instead of tedious polygonal modeling.
On the downside, it is paid for and lacks native Linux support, but at least the first one is quite forgivable - the software really deserves its price, and even more. Another minus is the lack of good documentation. When I was learning ZBrush, a lot of the documentation was simply missing, and what was present was very brief and outdated.
On the plus side, I can mention its lightweight and undemanding system. Unfortunately, in 2025 my system is an AMD Athlon II X3 450, AMD Radeon HD 7400 and 8Gb RAM, and even on such an ancient computer, ZBrush continues to run, while even newer versions of Blender won't run due to lack of SSE 4.2 support - the same goes for other 3D graphics software. By dividing sculpts into individual subtools, I can sculpt even more or less complex models.
Someone complains about the bad interface and complexity of the program, but the interface is not bad, it's just individual. And the basic functionality of the program is very easy to learn, and learning the whole program will take not so much time - just enough to approach it competently.
Many thanks to the developers for this wonderful program. I love sculpting, and I am glad that even with a bad computer I can do it.
And... there are hardly any alternatives for ZBrush. There is 3D Coat, but it seemed a bit different to me. Sort of... still the same “general 3d software” that Blender and 3ds Max are, just with some attention given to sculpting.
It is easy to use and it is fun
IT starts out working but the memory management on this application is so messed up that in time, not a long time, it starts to corrupt the application. We have tried it on 4 different computers and it is nothing but frustrating. At some point you can't even open a file as it becomes so corrupt. The Mac error report shows a BAD ALLOC which obviously points to poor/pathetic development practices where the memory is not properly requested and released causing memory over rights.
I get that this is a free software, but with as much praise is given to it for its capability, it needs to be better than this.