🦜Why ZSphere Are Holding You Back 

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Solid explanation why zspheres are not the best starting point for a figure but the blanket statement "STOP USING ZSPHERES!!11" feels like a clickbait overgeneralization. Zspheres have tons of other uses, like making knots, turning zspheres chains into precise curves, or even simpler things like making tree branches, and you want to be able to utilize them.

Really good video. As someone who has a decent bit of experience in 2D character art, yeah, blocking out the forms of the body in 3d primitives is more intuitive.

So cool I learn so much here !

It's like saying metaballs do nothing for organic shape like plants tree or spider or other complexe shape Zsphere is highly valuable and are able to be convert as a low poly structure that you can pose .

i can attest to what you're saying! i'm doing a creature sculpting course and paying the price of using zspheres instead of the imm method 🤣 thanks for the video!

cool. i found this video looking for a solution for me not being able to move the second sphere in a chain. it was the brush size, which you mentioned in the video. perfect. also, after watching it i decided to do a mix of both workflows. i like to try the balls for the body and your method for neck and head

according to you which is the best way to do the blocking for a character other than what you have spoke in the video?

versis\versus? I couldn't make out the words... however, you are trying to explain the inconsistency of using z spheres where they do not need to be used... all that is needed from this tool is to gain the overall proportions and mass of the character and without the rig and its binding to the grid, be able to set the desired pose... to look at it, twist it, change it as many times as you want and start sculpting, gaining real weight and proportions of body parts ... it is very strange to hear this from someone who called himself a "lead"... 0:55 your words contradict what you show on the screen as "proof" ... the person was almost immediately able to set the desired proportions of the limbs in length relative to each other. in this context, it is also important to see the process itself - I am sure that it was faster and easier than taking shape with brushes...

thank you so much for your vids, i was initially shown to create a basic structure using zspheres and it was really not a fun process

Hard disagree. I come from a traditional sculpting background where I’d build wire armatures and design characters using oil or monster clay, and using zspheres saves me a lot of time. It made transitioning to digital using the zspheres lot easier. Any primitives, if needed, I’ll do a quick shaping and incorporate it into the zspheres. Building every single piece of anatomy out of a primitive quite frankly was boring and time consuming and made me lose interest. Zspheres I’m able to jump right into sculpting, pose it to the way want and start the workflow. Now most of the time I don’t even about making anatomy from primitives since I’ve saved them as separate tools like rib cages, hands, etc. Build the rig, add your anatomy tools, done.

i do agree on that. simple primitives way better than Zballs