Pro Zbrush artist sculpts in Blender for the first time 

I really like how the sculping feels in Blender and I think you'll like the multires modifier since you have subdivision levels to step up and down towards. The only thing missing for me at this point is sculpt layers. There's a paid addon but I would prefer it be native in Blender. One tip that I might suggest is setting up your brush hotkeys the same way you have them set up in Zbrush. Just right click on the brush and "assign shortcut" That sped up my workflow big time. Great video!

You have such a different sculpting style from what I’m used to seeing and it’s so refreshing! Definitely picked up some tricks hehe thank you Laura!

OK, I'll be totally honest. I try to watch every artist who moves from other software to Blender. I am emotional, not objective. I love Blender on a moral, philosophical level... So here's the truth, I've subscribed and liked the video (cause it's great, and you're great! Good job!) but I'm really here only to follow your Blender journey... Looking forward to the next installment!

So cool to see a professional sculpt something in Blender! What a beautiful sculpt. I really appreciate your take on being agnostic with software, and the perspective of ZBrush being in competition given the price point.

As of yesterday I´ve started my journey on blender. I love how accesible it is. Even thoug I started my carrer in 3DMax and Maya. Blender is slowly but surelly winning over me. And watching this type of artwork only motivates me more. Thanks a lot! Amazing work!!

I've personally found that blender works better with mid to high res sculpting using the multi-resolution modifier instead of the subdivision modifier when using a low resolution, poly modeled base mesh. Multires is also easier to get more detail with less verts than subsurf while sculpting, can be easily removed if you wish to restart your sculpt from the base mesh, and will maintain your sculpting detail as best it can when turning down the subdivision settings of the multires. The only thing to keep in mind when using multires modifier is that you can no longer reliably poly model your base mesh without permanently applying the modifier or removing it, whereas sub-surf can modify the base mesh at any time without error. So it's more of a matter of what stage of development the project is in that determines which to use.

Because of this video I was able to reach a level of comfort inside Blenders sculpting that I hadn't quite found. Thank you!

great video. I really enjoyed how you narrated your experience, looking forward for more to come. Edit: A tip for blender sculpting. There is a real time render option named Eevee, you can set up some lights and sculpt/edit your character with a great approximation to the final render. Also you can change the viewport camera focal length on the menu in the top right corner to something less distorted to a portrait lens like 50mm.

It's probably because this is your first Blender post and I tend to mainly watch Blender-centric 3D videos, but WOW, how have I not come across your channel before?! You're so incredibly talented and your insight is fantastic. Can't wait to see more of your work (as I work my way through your existing channel content, lol). Subscription added! 💜

Regarding poly paint equivalent make sure to use the new Sculpt Painting in 3.2 release they rework the vertex painting system

So incredible watching timelapse sculpting. I'm not a sculptor, but watching this kind of stuff makes me want to get in to it. I enjoy Blender quite a bit, and never have used Zbrush.

What a distinct and cool head you came up with here. I love the angular planes! I'm tired of seeing the same female anime head in sculpting videos so this was refreshing to see :)

I am so glad to hear you were able to use Blender Laura!! There was an individual who was in charge of the sculpting area and blender and it still goes unsung about what an impact he had. I didn't realize until now someone with a focus on function and UI, was finally at the helm on a small part of blender. Blender, It is the only tool I can afford that I constantly am screaming and pulling my hair out ..how I have to look up on the internet for the most basic simplest of tasks ..with hidden keystrokes and all the other madness that is the blender interface & manual. To hear from a pro coming from a well laid out & designed program, who was able to easily understand with minimal fuse what they wanted to accomplish in blender sculpt...it is heartening. I hope someday , there is someone who will be able to redesign the rest of blender akin to the sculpt section.

The snake tool with constant detail setting ticked within Dyntopo and a resolution around 15+ is so good for creating stuff really quickly with nice feedback! Great vid!

Hi Laura, yeah Blender based Tutorials would be so great! I will start with sculpting in the next week, so learning from you would be really nice!

Gosh I really love the way you present video now! IMO you've reached this level of confort in talking to an audience in a natural way. I love it. BTW I've been using blender professionally for quite a few years in the game industry now as a character artist and it brings all I need with the little extra that is (as you mentionned) it's a 3D software! I can switch to modeling to sculpt every time I need and I have all the tool of a 3d package too

Thanks for this. I sculpt in ZB and model/render in Blender and I've been wanting to get into sculpting in Blender just because I'd like to not keep dinking from one app to the other. Thanks for the non-biased overview.

blender is great what i love is the fact that it has eevee ,and textruing ,sculpting it has so many tools and you can just see all of that in realtime

What I hate about Z brush is that I'm from England and I say it "zed" whereas everyone everywhere else says it "zee" brush. and EVERYTIME I hear "zee" I have to repeat "zed" in my head :D

By default the camera focal length is at 50mm, I would recommend putting it between 80mm and 100mm so that the mesh doesn't warp as much and you have a bit more of an accurate reading of your model. You can find it in the 3d view on the right side ( if it's collapsed you can click the small arrow top right or hit 'n' to make it show up) then in the view tab the focal length option can be set.

The fact that Blender is even being talked about as a competitor to ZBrush when it comes to sculpting work is insane, especially taking into account that it's only been a main focus of the project for the last few years. Having said that, Blender's main strength (and weakness) is that it's a jack of all trades (did you know it's also a video editor? why is it a video editor!?). I don't think I would encourage sculptors to change from ZBrush to Blender, but instead to explore the non-sculpting features and incorporate Blender into their workflow.

"Ultimately its up to ZBrush to justify its price" Well said. ZBrush is losing out on hobby devs like myself. What happens over the next 5+ years as blender adds more functionality? Even if it's missing some of the polish, a price tag of free is hard to argue with. Especially in non-professional environments.

Hey great video, thanks for making it! I had a similar experience going from Blender into ZBrush and thought ZBrush was fairly intuitive and easy to pick up without having to look at documentation or tutorials. Would love to see more Blender content on this channel.

If you want to change the viewport camera settings while sculpting, you can press N and a tab will open up from the right side (or you can press the tiny arrow next to the Gizmo top right). There in the View tab you can play with stuff like the camera settings like FOV

I really enjoy your presentation / way of narrating and explaining. Also looking forward to more Blender stuffs ;-)

Starting out sculpting and Man that clay strip plus deep fill combo looks golden

and this is only the tip of the iceberg , blender has surprisingly became a beast ! I am an architect and for me bender sculpting is giving me more than I need , I used zbrush for like 8 years in architecture and .... it was painful with 3ds max yet the interface of zbrush is so weird that my industry standard muscle memory can handle 😀it has impressive hard surface modeling , yet sketching , compositing and incredibly fast renderers (Cycles and EEVEE) I really like the cloths anatomy video on this channel as this was the first video I watched , but I would really like to see more blender content as you have impressive talent and yet nice presentation

Blender has done great things for this industry but its content creators like yourself that are to thank for the flourish we are seeing with independent digital art. I hope you give yourself a big pat on the back everytime you upload because you are doing great things for the community. Outgang is an invaluable resource and I recommend you to all my cg artist friends no matter the skill level :)

Glad you touched on the camera. ZBrush's camera has been pretty frustrating at times while learning likeness sculpting. The camera is the only reason I've considered trying Blender.

Hey! It always feel good when some experienced artist has so much to say about blender! You can see a small preview resolution of the dyntopo remesh with shift+r, a grid will appear and you can drag the mouse in or out to change the voxel size, once you're happy press ctrl+r to actually remesh. To add lights simply go to the first tab (I think it's layout) and change to object mode, shift+a will bring the add mesh menu and you can pick the lights there, position them with G (as in grab) and press x, y or z to toggle the axis, left click confirms the motion, right click cancels, a new tab will appear with light properties in the right side panel with the light properties, you can manipulate the camera in the same way with G, press R to rotate and again x, y or z to toggle axis (scale works the same way but you won't be need them with lights or camera), you can also press 0 on the numeric pad to change to camera view, split the viewport to manipulate the camera on one viewport and see your shot on another! You can easily switch modes (sculpt, object, edit, etc) with ctrl+tab, but I modify the shortcut to simply tab to access all modes, actually you don't have to modify the shortcut, using tab to view all modes is an option in the shortcuts section of the preferences, I also enable a pie menu add on to turn all contextual menus into pie menus! It's included with blender but you have to enable it on the add on menu on the preferences. 😅 Hope I could help and thank you so much for bringing awareness to the Blender community!

Thanks for your valuable time Laura, really nice and honest review. I can only agree. For the camera: it is *crazy nice* to set up your screen so you can see the object you sculpt from different angles all at once. Sculpting performance is totally acceptable for the most part, but the comparison to ZBrush always comes down to the nitty gritty details and extreme resolutions. Thanks and have fun with the upcoming Blender stuff!

Oh yes! Please, do more content about sculpting in Blender. I've been scared out of my mind to start sculpting in ZBrush. I used to use Mudbox a bit, because it was more intuitive for me, I'd love to see how it goes with your skills as a sculpting artist. So thanks for that, looking forward to the next video!

Awesome overview, thanks Laura.

Awesome and fair deduction! The way I work with lights in Blender is as follows; In Layout add a light by pressing Shift+a, pick the light type you want from the menu. Once added and selected in the outliner, type N to get the right sidepanel open and go to "View" tick Camera to view. Then press CTRL+0 (numpad) this way the light becomes the Camera and you use this technique to light your objects. Once happy or want to see through the camera, click the camera icon next to the camera object in the outliner. There are better ways I guess but it works for me.

Awesome as always❤️

love your blender content. you are an amazing sculptor 🥰

hello, just stumbled uppon ur video. Been a maya / houdini / Zbrush / 3dCoat etc user for 22 years now. Both in Game studios and FX studios. 3 months ago, I gave a try to blender. Changed my whole perception of the 3d pipeline. the fact that you never leave the software to complete a project is absolutely astonishing. Blender is still far from doing all, but it will surely do. It step by step integrates all the fundamentals of all the softwares, including Houdini s powerfull node system. It s not the fact that the software is free that attracts me, it s the mindset.

if you ever decide to sculpt or do anything else in blender friendly tip. There is a built in add on for blender that allows you to press W and get a nice little wheel of the brushs that I find to be very smooth and simple to use to swap between brushes. Also you can assign things to your favorites by right clicking them then when you press Q it will bring up a menu with all of your favorites

I started using Blender back in the day when it originally became open source. It has evolved insanely much from those early days, not only by features but also by performance and the interface. Back when it originally got the sculpting features, I did give Zbrush a spin as well, just to compare them, and nothing about Zbrush really convinced me, that even "a serious hobbyist" like me would ever really need a paid application for it. I'm certain if you do sculpting professionally, then yes, a specialized application like Zbrush is going to justify its price tag, but for everyone else, it's a harder call.

Hey Laura, i've been binge watching your channel and i'm cursing at youtube's algorythm for not showing me any of your vids before, i'm a junior in the industry and your videos are incredibly informative, if you didn't make this video i probably would never have found out about your channel. Making blender content is a surefire way to reach a lot more people, plus it's fun to explore new softwares! I hope your videos get the attention they deserve, cheers

At the retail level, Z-Brush holds the torch of being the standard for character sculpting, however I would argue that Blender can pull ahead because how scalable it is. For example, the ability to bake high-res details onto low-res models in very few steps is extremely useful, and all the addons needed to create an almost 1-to-1 replica of Z-Brush would cost less than the program itself. By trade I'm a Generalist who's getting into the sculpting side of things and because of the nature of the jobs I'm interested in, people such as YanSculpts have extremely valuable workflows to look at and adapt. *The option to add individual functions to a favourites menu (Q) is an absolute life-saver.*

When you work with Voxel remeshing, make sure to try hitting "Shift+R." This gives you a voxel size preview. Coming from Zbrush I found that to me AMAZING as I got sick of trying to find a resolution sweet spot. Love this video!

For better performance with high poly sculpts, I absolutely recommend using the multires modifier - which is a great subdivision modifier. I've messed around and gotten to 30 million polys and my performance was still good. I could sculpt without much issue at that point.

Blender continues to improve since 2.8 faster than I've seen other 3D packages. Also some good plugins available from the community that is able to make up for the out of the box shortcomings - in both sculpting (remeshing tools) and texturing (a few good layer based PBR painting tools around), and many others.

Thank You, Laura! New subscriber here. I look forward to watching you dope out Blender, as it is something I am on the cusp of using myself.

Thank you so much for this demo and PRO P.O.V of Blender . Looking forward for more Blender sculpting videos. Blender NEEDS to have a native "zremesher. IMO.

Hello I'm a student in university doing games art and from the pass years I have been working with both programs but mainly with blender (my teachers all think I'm the weird one), I think both are great tools and when I jump from one to the other I always find myself missing something that one has and the other doesn't so my 3 tips I found are: 1. the amazing Zremesher tool is not exclusive to Zbrush and the developer made a addon for other programs so their is a way to have these amazing tool in blender as well 2. another addon that really helped me is a addon that lets me send my projects from blender to zbrush with incredible ease, idk the name but flipnormals has a amazing video on how to use it 3. im not a 100% sure but I think Zbrush brushes work in blender, I downloaded a pack of brushes ones that were named orb brush's for ZBrush and they opened fine in blender, I have not tried in other brushes dou to not needing but at the time I found it amazing, hopefully im not wrong since it would be amazing but if I am apologies.

Thanks for sharing your objective evaluation.

If you look on the road map, there's actually plan in Blender to achieve as high polycounts as in Zbrush done in similiar way of rendering as Zbrush does (withing 3.x.x version). It was also pointed out that it would be separate program connected with blender. But atm it actually can achieve very high polycounts, most poeple just remember 2.8 performance and didn't look at it now really or dont know the subdivision(multi-resolution) workflow. I'm glad u're looking into it, looking forward to more content from Blender

This is amazing! Please keep going! I'm really on the edge considering if I should invest on zbrush or just stick to blender!

I really like that in blender everything just gets really pixelated when I try to do anything in it

thank you for giving blender a try. I enjoy your video.

very interesting what you do and how you do that. It's fun to see how you use rather simple shapes to make up the face before going into details, that is my sculpt takeaway, but I rarely use sculpting in blender, but probably should give it more time... And you are absolutely right about the hotkeys. Everything in blender has great shortcuts but not sculpting. Maybe that is keeping me from sculpting... I bet a lot of people will be interested in your keyboard shortcuts you gave the tools and the blender devs are also open for easier worksflows so maybe they even add those in, which would be great :) keep it up!

If you need any brush that's not in the toolbar you can take any brush and apply a texture (simple black and white alpha image)to it to achieve the results you desire.

aa this is epic! i really wanna get into 3d sculpting just for the fun of it but my laptop is a potato. plans for the future!!

Great video, you can create your own brushes using alpha maps etc. And there's alot of good tutorials on lighting and sculpting in blender from Yan sculpts and flipped normals

you're really good at defining the shape of the skull.

I really enjoy sculpting in Blender but the main frustration is the lack of a proper hPolish equivalent. You got some lovely hPolish-y effects using Blender's scrape brush. Did you have to tweak the settings a bunch or do you just have the magic touch, haha? Thanks for this fun, well narrated video, Laura! If you're up for it, I'd love to see you do hand brushed cloth wrinkle effects in Blender like you do in zBrush. I'm still blown away at how realistic your wrinkles/crinkles are.

I was crazy about starting to sculpt on zbrush until i found out it was paid and VERY expensive for me, who has no experience in the field and is young and on a budget, then i found out about blender and boom, now not only im learning 3d sculpting but also finally getting on 3d animation and mixing my 2d art with my 3d models, yes zbrush is the standard but blender is perfect for people without money for that and for people who wish to explore other areas of 3d!

Very interresting ! I'm currently switching back from the Maya/Zbrush workflow to Blender and I must agree with you, the UI is wayyyy more intuitive in Blender. I hope you will post more content about sculpting in Blender ! You could also use addon brushes, some are even free (like the Orb Brush Pack).

I love your videos, i admire you, You inspire me. Hugs from México

The biggest thing missing is the Transpose Tool. No way to move an unmasked selection in Sculpt Mode. But except that, it's so great that it didn't take me even a week to forget 5 years of ZBrush once an for all. Blender rocks. (Huge thing also is the vertex painting, It felt great and smooth in Zbrush, was constantly using it... and sadly I abandonned polypainting in ZBrush and, do that instead later Texture Painting the retopo.

I have been using blender since version 2.80 and currently at version 3.2. Not sculpting but modeling. I created a 3D model of my kitchen in my small (450 sq ft) one bedroom ground floor suite in a house. I have also in the middle of create a fan lyrics video for a emerging band I have been following for the past 3 years.

With a few meshes, you can go really high detail, but it'll start lagging hard when you have a lot of these models in the scene. I found that on my system, I can't go past 85 million polygons in the scene. It becomes hard to even move the camera or make a selection. Another thing is that if you want to use layer sculpting, you have to download an addon. It probably works great for Cartoon characters since that's pretty much all I see people doing with blender, you don't have to go super high res to get a good result in that style. I mostly end up using the sculpting tools in Blender for polygon modeling, like you would in 3dsMax or Maya, for tweaking the base mesh or making blend shapes.

i have used zbrush in the past didn't get really far because my tools usually wouldn't work and the controls where awful to me. started sculpting in blender and i love it (was used to modeling in blender already), i never really had many problemns with it crashing or anything because of too many verts or poly's ^^

Much of the performance issues Blender had in Sculpt Mode has been radically improved over the last couple years by rockstar programmer Pablo Dobarro. He's also the genius behind the Multiresolution Modifier, which not only makes working with higher subdivisions easier, it can bring meshes directly from Zbrush and move up and down the subdivision chain without any issues. One of the main things to take note of is that Multiresolution is almost exclusively for retopologized meshes, while Voxel Remesh is primarily for initial sculpts. The Blender sculpt workflow is generally: Base Sculpt>Remesh>Refined Base Sculpt>Retopo>Multires>Fine Detail. You can Voxel Remesh anytime to get a higher overall poly density, but Multires and Remesh(as well as Dyntopo) do not play well together. Vertex Paint(Polypaint) in Blender is much improved in 3.2, but I haven't really used it in a production environment yet to really put it through its paces. I think the two biggest reasons to use Zbrush over Blender are the Insert Mesh Brush (which is supposedly in the works for Blender), and the ZRemesher tool. ZRemesher does have a Blender version, but I haven't used Zbrush enough to tell how it compares.

Great pro on blender sculpting, YanSculpt channel. helps a lot for begginers another tip, you can split the screen, and have the head in multiple position and see the changes in real time in every view. something i think zbrush doesnt have. it helps a lot

so your setting the remesh so dense is kinda like setting subdiv much higher. I can say dyntopo has a few settings to mess with. relative detail is good for doing little touches. constant detail is good for keeping topology at the same density everywhere. With constant detail, the dropper tool helps you pick up the detail density of the mesh.

im a zbrush user for a long time, also same for Blender and the sculpting tool on Blender is ain't no joke, it's a power house, maybe not as powerfull on high polycount for surfacing finish work, but it's almost equal to Zbrush, with less custom brush and probably not as fast, that make Zbrush still usefull. In fact i started the skeleton of my work as low poly as i could, in Blender, i add more on Zbrush, finish on Substance, and animated and finish render on Cycle or Eevee on blender; as a Layout setup it's realy a cool one.

I think my main issue with blender is the ability to use multiple high resolution meshes at the same time aswell I also feel like the choice of tools in zbrush is much more expansive. I think blender is fine even for sculpters who are proffessional but mainly do styilised sculpting but for high detail closer to realism I find Zbrush having easy VDM brushes to make means its much easier to use repeating details with small differences than in blender. Also as someone who uses Zbrush a lot I find the ability to really quickly switch between perspective and orthographic to be really usefull. I know this can be done in blender but I feel its not as smooth a transition. I also find it very quick to get into sculpting in Zbrush while I see a lot of features in blender having to use specific modifiers and learning what each one does.

Tried Zbrush back around 3.0 I think. It was so unintuitive to use, not unlike Blender 2.79 and earlier. I was so happy to find how easily it was for me to pick up Blender after the the 2.8 update.

As a person already sculpting in blender. but who is on the fence about zbrush, I'm very keen to see your comparison video in regards to performance.

98% of the time i'm using one of maybe 6 brushes; i put those in my quick favs menu; quicker than hitting spacebar and seeing a looooong list of brushes most of which i'm not looking for (although that option is still available of course) thanks for sharing your thoughts on blender

Hello, First time on the channel. I enjoyed the video enough to subscribble :) Funny the algorithm sent me your video, as someone else I watch is working on videos as a Blender user learning ZBrush. -Ok. Funny, Creepy, and Cool.-

I’d recommend dragging the brush panel a bit wider so you get two columns instead of one long thin one that goes off the screen.

i do more and more sculpting in Blender. What i miss from zbrush is a simple custom toolbar, where i can put my fav brushes into, and get it on the screen with a hotkey. Another thing what i miss is the Field where i can see and switch the alpha. In Blender this process is more trial and error.

You really beat my 1 year experience of sculpting in blender with your 60 mins blender experience 🙂 And main thing about amount of poly matters is RAM and CPU, you have enough ram and cpu so you are not facing any issues

OMG this is the proof, the 99% of sculpting things in blender out there are like childish characters and toon like, we neeeed more of this, that head, the process that you use, how you use the brushes, i need a class on all that, please 🙌🏼, the blender community will love you 100%

Blender having PBR lighting and decent retopo tools along with solid UV tools is something I wish ZBrush had.

I have been using zbrush for sculpting for many years and studiously avoiding it in blender because I thought how could it be as good? I finally bit the bullet when pixologic sold zbrush to a company that inevitably put an end to perpetual licenses. I refuse to pay ridiculous premiums to have my artwork locked behind a paywall, so decided to figure out blender. It is so close to zbrush that I kept forgetting I wasn’t in zbrush and used the wrong hot keys! Now it’s just second nature after only a few months. I haven’t opened zbrush in a good while 🤷‍♀️ and probably won’t go back. Dyntopo is great, followed by a remesh and the multi-resolution modifier for sculpting is aces. Millions of polys and no performance issues on sculpting. 👍

Most animation studios in my country use blender, they are really successful with the result and the series is showing on our television

One of my biggest gripes with Blender is the lack of "sane checks". It's very easy, when you're in the zone to over-adjust remesh detail and cause cpu hang.

Beatifull head i must say :) I personally started in zbrush and learned my sculpting there since couple of years ago. I did shot to blender just like you, a little more by now i made like 2 full characters. Yes depending on the rig polycount may be the issue so you cant get to crazy like in Zbrush, but myself actually im not into to extensive detailing, because the way i work those details are going byebye anyway on low polys or prepearing for print. So if you make resonable sculpture and you utilze this features like multires ect. in the right moment it's fine. Main downside to vanilla blender tough is no remeshing tool like zremesher. So you need to buy addon called Quad remesher (yes specificaly this one it is the best) and you already have 100$ inwested but ok it's cool. Main thing i like is how you can fluently combine sculpt with traditional hardsurface modelling, and that part actually is way better than zmodeler because its opening the door to other aspect of modelling whatever it's quads or weighted normals workflows, meanwile zmodeler...ehh is zmodeler right, ok it,s good tool but cmon this interface idea and constantly smashing spacebar is haunting me at nights sometimes. Another thing is you can render, and render pretty good. Also if you want to make something for realz to the end theres another addons you need for UV specially and i assume we texture in some substance anyway because texturing is not very good but still better than zbrush :) now blender 3.2 has this new polypaint tool so it's going there also (previous polypainting sorry "vertex painting" was unworkable). Anyhow to work you will spend couple of bucks but it's gettin to be very fun tool. I must say if they would solve the issue of polycount a littlebit, maybe i dont know utilze this whole Evee engine as workoround for Zbrush 2.5d system to also make "fake 3d" apperance while sculpting. Then i would consider make Blender my regular tool and probably convinience of using it(sculpting, modeling, Uv, rendering, rigging) in one place would eventually eliminate zbrush for me without my decision :)

Great video! After retopology, use the multires modifier to subdivide. This will get you to the high-poly counts. With the multi-res you can separate the low-res mesh in edit mode, increase the subdivisions, then rejoin at the end. The multires is your best friend for blender sculpting. The only thing it lacks compared to zbrush is sculpting layers. There's an addon but it's not very intuitive. If the developers made a layer system as good as zbrush's then it would compete 100% as a professional tool.

I started to sculpt using Blender but after i try Zbrush that is no doubt that Blender has a lot to improve to be in the same level as Zbrush but i like to use both.

New tool, same master. Well done!

Thanks Laura. I use Blender for putting together the final assets of a 3D model but all detailed work is done in other software. Zbrush for sculpting, topogun for retopology, rizum uv for uvs, substance for textures. Blender is where everything comes together for the final model and rig. Marmoset for rendering, but I admit Blender's Eevee is really nice looking as well. Thanks for the video!

you are such a beautiful human

WOW usually new adopters of blender fumble with most of the things but I'm surprised you were able to find most things by yourself, like pressure sensitivity settings and stuff.

Well I don't usually sculpt but I use blender for modeling and animation, I tried Zbrush and being honest it was painful to change to blender to Zbrush and it took me almost a day to start to feel more comfortable, something that I miss from Zbrush is the Zremesh cause is really powerful but besides that you could go amazing things in blender. Some tips that could help you, check some other channels that have awesome and easy tutorial like grant abbit (or something like that) and blender secrets, that one is amazing Also for light you can add them with shift+a or in the top left corner where it says add, then you have more properties on the right side in the green light bulb icon and if you are really into it you could change your light with nodes like if it was a material, also in the last version you have really good acustics for rendering The camera you can add it the same way and if you want to position it just Ctrl alt 0 and it will move to wherever you are seeing and if it is too close or far just press g and the mouse wheel, also if you press n the there will be some properties that will allow you to move the camera freely so you can position it. For rendering Eevee is good for preview or final renders if you play with the settings, but for still images Cycles is the way to go, in the current versions is really fast and good. Also when you finish that you have the compositing tab where you can add some final details. I saw too much people talked about the multi res but it works in higher poly levels and also if you need to bake it could work as a low and high poly models, since you can just duplicate your object once is done and just take the modifier out, that would make a decent low poly version of it. I'm sorry if it is too long but I hope it helps you.

It is so amazing to hear your opinions about this Laura :) I tried Blender sculpting already sometimes.. but I always find it a bit complicated the brushes.. like, they are not adding volume enough, or precise enough. After this video, I will give it a shot again :)

Once you discover that you can procedurally create brushes too 😁, bake details to displacement textures and more, you might also get lost in the blender loop like we all did 😅 Here since version 1.9 loving it

You know it would be nice to see a character made by Laura with Blender and environment made by her (or someone else she doesn't want to do it as she's a character artist and might not want to the environment) and see how well it will render.

I was so used to Blender sculpting that I hated Zbrush at first. Espicially the inability to navigate through or inside a mesh. But the ability to have 10 million polygons on even a potato PC and still have it run smooth, that's what sold me on Zbrush. Quite a few of the Blender equivalents lag (on my particular PC, anyway) whereas Zbrush it's almost instant.

Now we need the video where Laura sculpts with real clay

So it was great to see you as a software agnostic zbrush sculptor using blender, you did a good job of picking it up and using it as such and for that i really give you props and look forward to seeing more, but really you would have gotten a lot out of the community to help with some of the things you were doing after that hour by checking out a few Blender youtubers in the blender community to add to the experience and shortcuts etc. also if you can use marmoset to light and render, to be honest you could have done the same within blender in no time at all using the built in lights and cycles or EEVEE renderer with less time than exporting and setting up in marmoset, just by looking at a couple of you tubes or even Blenders own web site on lights and rendering. and still work on the sculpt. that seemed a little bizarre. lights and rendering are pretty simple if you are doing a basic render. Why wouldn't you look something like that up on youtube or search, there are so many people out there willing to help.

Been using Zbrush since 2007. Although there are things zBrush does better and maybe faster than blender I switched without looking back. Most people think it's the price. It's not. The reason is that blender will never be bought by another entity and be killed/maimed. It is also FOSS, which means that anyone can make any change/addon they need, and even if for some reason development stagnated, chances are someone else in the community will pick up the slack. I am still using zBrush when a client requires it, and I love that too, but not going back.

wow, great 👍🏼

By default, 1 unit of length in Blender is 1 meter. The default cube is 2x2x2 meters in size. At any field that take a position or length, you can use any metric you wish, eg. "5 cm" will convert to 0.05m or "1 in" will convert to 0.0254m. You can change Blender to use Imperial measurements too if you wish.