The Only 6 Brushes You Ever Need in ZBrush 

*Brushes:* - Move - Standard - Damian Standard - Clay Buildup - Smooth - Trim Dynamic

In 14 years since I first used it, I've never seen a zbrush video so perfectly capture the basics of sculpting in zbrush without being "scary" to someone who would be new to it. Very very well done. There's been plenty of basics videos, but I feel like all of them had something that made people go "I'm not so sure I can grasp that." but the way you approached it, it doesn't make it look easy, but it makes it look attainable.

Can’t wait to watch this in full detail. The brush selection is for sure overwhelming for a new users

That warm fuzzy feeling when you watch a video and already have the six recommended brushes hotkeyed! (plus one extra; Orb Cracks)

I love your easy to understand tutorial videos. While I have pretty decent experience in zbrush, looking at your videos has helped me improve my overall technique and how I approach projects more efficiently and with higher quality over the last few years.

The part about lowering the intensity of the clay buildup for a clean sculpt was really helpful, i was avoiding that brush because of the result i was getting. Thanks a lot!

The "smooth alt" brush has been really handy and will not destroy your primary forms. Also, Pablo sells a set of clay brushes and within that pack, there is a knife brush. I tend to use that other than the "dam standard" brush. I'll tend to use "dam standard" to refine the details at the end. These are some tips that have helped me recently. Great video Henning, thanks for the tips!

Once again the instruction here is second to none! Hoping to steal some of this quality for my own videos. Bravo!

Clay Buildup - probably the king of brushes in ZBrush

While you can indeed get away with only using those brushes - I would highly recommend learning more of the available ones and even some third party ones (Orb cracks for example). You are making life harder for yourself in the long run. I consider these essential to my workflow - on top of the most important ones listed in the video : Pinch Inflate Move Topological (Crucial in more complex meshes) Smooth Peaks (fantastic to quickly get surface detail) Smooth Cloth (EXCELLENT for one-sided geo to smooth the borders - the only smooth brush that does NOT ignore edges of one-sided geo) SK_Clayfill (cleanup) OrbCracks (one of the finest brushes for harder surface detail, like stone etc) HPolish (this brush was designed to also be used in tandem with TrimDynamic - Define with TrimDynamic, refine with hPolish. Flatten (THE go to brush to quickly "clean" or demolish an area) ZModeler (it's weird but powerful) Planar (great for quickly faceting for rock stone etc) TrimSmoothBorders (another great stone.rock etc faceting brush) SK_Cloth (Superb for manual cloth sculpting quickly) CurveTubeSnap (quickly block out tentacles,appendages, pipes, whatever) CurveTube etc IMM Primitives (quickly block out parts) Cloth brushes (very nice for the dynamics of cloth, liquid etc) Trim Brushes (quickly slice up the mesh) MeshProject (Extract but on steroids) and a few others on occasion. I use all of these on a daily basis, and it would be a huge pain in the ass if they were not available.

For me as an Environment Artist, I would also add flatten, Trim smooth border square and planar.

Really appreciate the video .I would like further demonstration on how to use actual tutorial in soft to make soft .

I just changed the Device from asio to SPDIF-out (soft blaster z) TNice tutorials improved the soft quality dramatically. I tNice tutorialnk tNice tutorials did the trick!

thanks for that! The most important is the workflow for building the basic shape. One stage at the time, and use the less brushes as possible

This channel is awesome, you teach so beautifully it makes me cry realizing how wonderful person you are and how beautiful era it is

Just wanna chime in for the intro to sculpting course mentioned at the end of this video. I got it a few months ago and have gotten a TON out of it. Well worth the small investment for the knowledge you get out of it. Thank you for all the work Henning and the FlippedNormals crew! :)

About clay buildup: you can also decrease brush depth to 5 and lazy mouse step. Stairs will be removed.

that method at the end was really good, thank you.

I use the draw, draw sharp, grab, crease, and clay strips brushes in Blender. I also use nudge at 0 strength when using dyntopo to add/remove geometry

I would also like to add ClayTubes and you got the only brushes I use rn while I'm learning 3d sculpting

And also ZModeler for me. Nice guys

this video pop up in my feed again and I'm sorry to say that the title of this video has held me back for so long that I really regret taking it so seriously. These 6 brushes are only related to the foundation of sculpting as an artistic skill so yes they're far more important than another brushes. But to become proficient in zbrush one must take advantages of whatever brushes that gets the job done.

Damn, thats exactly the brushesh i use, its a really good list. I also use use hpolish, since its a bit weaker than trim dynamic.

I will definitely try that clay buildup tip!

thank you soooooooo much you re a fantastic teacher !

Very cool professional work👍

i would add some extend brush for some brushes, move topology (move brush) to me this is just as important as regular move brush, h polish (trim dynamic), orb crack (dam standard)

I had no idea tNice tutorials blew up until now holy sNice tutorialt

Will be following

More videos! Talk about anything, just bring us more! :)

This video was a great help.

you have a nice english, I can understand you very well

This tutorial is awesome :)

Thank you, great clip x

This is what i needed! ty so much :D PS: Need more beginner videos to get started haha. Its a shame that on your website eveything is so expensive :(

Watching the top of the UI as you sculpt, I see that you are rapidly and almost instantly shifting draw size. Is it a peripheral allowing you to do this like some kind of slider?

Can we get a video on how to get from primary to secondary details? Fuck pores, teach me secondary

with the advance of dynamesh workflow pro people would rather use move topology brush

Muchas gracias

Move / Standard / Dam Standard / Clay Build-Up / Trim Dynamic / Smooth Stronger

Hey FlippedNormals! Curious about the difference between Move and Move Elastic?

Damn, that Alpha 06 feels good.

6 brushes??? I only use 4 :P

Any explanation’s on thickeness feature?

@FlippedNormals, Henning: What brush did you map on key 1? You mentioned you'd typically bind keys 1 through 6 (or 7). But there was no mention of key 1. :)

And I recomnd starting with LMMS instead of spending 0 and not really know what your getting into. LMMS is free and I've been

Are you guys going to be doing videos on the new ZBrush update with the contrast brush, thick skin, etc.?

Where do we get this skin kit you mentioned?

How are you guys moving or rotating the model when your brush pointer is on the model ?? I mean we have to have our pointer in free space to move or rotate or zoom !!

It's funny how he says, be careful to accidentaly don't destroy the form with a smooth brush, like there is not Crtl+Z in Zbrush lol !

List of brushes - 1:52

Increase Roll Distance on Clay Buildup brush and texture will mostly go away.

building up a demon and saying smoth brush is evil, thats funny haha

This video may change 3d artist live)

Why it has to be so difficult to work with blender?

now they added alt smooth brush in zbrush 2021.5 . this brush do not destroy form

I do need something like zbrush but it just seems like You pay for a bunch of stuff you won’t use. Like most people I see only use like a third or a fourth of all the things it offers. For example you paid for all those brushes but only use 4-6 of them. I’d rather spend $200 and have options I will actually use.

I do have a question about the type of software, because your using the full version of Zbrush right? But can you get away with all the brushes tips and tricks in this video with something a little more affordable like Zbrush Core? Or what would you recommend doing?

Love your vids! Btw is there any way I can send you guys a model I'm working on? I only have the free zbrush core mini so I can't all that I wanna do

So does this mean that zbrushcore is still a valid option in 2022?

how do you turn on that head on the top right corner? I cant find a way to toggle mine on

No move or snake hook? 🧐

has the clay buildup brush been renamed in the latest update? can't seem to find it

Hi. i don't know if it's related by this tips. but from the moment i'm doing this, zbrush crashes every single time that i use "ctrl-z" (undo anything). i don't know if someone other has this issue. Please i need your help.

Nothing new, but worth mentioning thousand more times for newbies.

Hi Can I buy models from you ??

For basics needs yes, but for complex works they are not enough.

is there some addons or way to convert the zbrush brushes to blender ?

Hey guys, where can I find a place to get good feedback, or constructive feedback, on my sculpts? I am a beginner and I need true opinions on my sculpts so I can learn more.

I’ve been saying Zed brush, so it’s Zee Brush. 😂

Like, subscribe Awesome video, thanks for sharing

😢 Idk I can't sculpt for some reason

I dont know wht im watching this even i only use blender for sculpting

"letter 2"

i cant be the only one here for hw

I use a lot more... I have personal issues so what!?

No love for polish :(

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I’m so dumb for tNice tutorials

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Can this more or less be translated to Blender as well? I'd assume that the sculpting is somewhat similar between these two software.

How do I get the very low resolution while moving the camera with subdivision activated?