Watch This BEFORE You Buy Zbrush in 2023... 

Well thank you!

Oh yeah. I think we have all been there lol. That's a really great anecdote

@@AlHowell I hope people heed your wise advice :)

I just pirate it for trying it for 1year..

in the case of photography you can start by buying some second hand pro camera body and few lenses, in case of software is more complicate

Great example using photography! I fell into the same trap but I didn't have a mentor and ended up spending too much on great gear that made me realise I was still an impatient and mediocre photographer.

get a 3d space mouse it rocks for all 3d stuff c4d blender zbrush maya etc .... its a navigation device used in your off hand

@@cjadams7434 Thanks for the advice. I'll do that.

@@sagethenomad5929 please note the extra button's of the midrange and enterprise versions i find worth it...less reaching for the keyboard

This is great advice, although the ui of core mini is more simple than zbrush, it can help get you acquainted. My I have custom UI in zbrush that I am always tweaking to make it even better for me. Thanks for your thoughts!

for me its the other way round, I wish I had started with blender. The reason being is blender has so many great free tutorials that help you understand the fundamentals of 3D modelling and on top of that with its UI being so much easier to understand, you can just get started with making things much sooner, without feeling like you are constantly fighting against the software and hitting roadblocks that stop you from being able to further create.... Zbrush is just such a horribly unintuitive beast to to get to grips with... even the simplest things like the mesh being named a 'tool' just makes things so confusing as a newbie. IMO learn the fundementals in blender then transition over to Zbrush... if you really want to take organic sculpting to another level. Honestly though blender for things like hardsurface modelling,is vastly superior with add ons.. zmodeller is horribly slow in comparison.

Man, where have you downloaded it from? I can't find a single place to download it, seems like google is hiding the results

If I were in your shoes and my portfolio was solid enough to fit the job description, I would apply anyways. Tools can be learned... and a stellar portfolio speaks for itself. The worst that will happen is you get a no.

If you don’t work with the studios pipeline they won’t hire you. I always tell people this, blender is free that’s all it has going for it.

Maya Indie is only $290 a year.

@@MarcioMazur Indie versions have limited features. I don't expect much coming from gready companies like Autodesk. I never buy proprietary/subscription based software. It wouldn't suprize me if Autodesk has a license that gives them a cut of the artist's paycheck.

Jack of all trades master of none.

@@BrainGrapes true, there is no single package that does everything well.

@@MarcioMazur free is still cheaper..

Damn right my friend

Someone drank the coolaide

also blender cant handle tens millions of polygons, it probably crash unless you have tons of RAM

Zbrush can handle billions, where have you been, feature for years

Okay, I see it now. Finally starting to go from a standstill back to making progress. Before would just be asking for answers from anti social nerds on discord (no offense cos a lot of groups were fine) but the people in my specific group would just be like “They’re just both good bro..” when they’d only made simple objects and would just be happy to rush further ahead while I was blocked from getting simple answers to complete a highly realistic model Am gunna fly ahead now I can work without my project crashing. Shouldn’t have to do hella technical stuff just

Honestly, learning software (while not easy) is the easiest part IMO. Learning the core fundamentals like form etc is tough. But you already have that! If you have the funds and want to work for a company as a sculptor, I’d go with Zbrush. Blender has become very solid in terms of sculpting but still cannot compare to Zbrush. Feel free to come back with any more questions.

You can upgrade to 2022.0.7 for free. But you have to pay for 2023

www.maxon.net/en/buy/students-teachers It is under the Maxon One bundle (C4D zbrush etc)

Truth!

well the thing is... sculpting is litterly everything in character models. and blender pathetic sculpting tools are laughable and makes you work way harder. like everything with blender. you want to put clothes on your character? have a blast trying to find the exact precision that your clothes would land on your model when you can do it easly with marvelous designer. its all about your goals. you want to grind your ass to get a graphic designer job? stay with blender. otherwise. if you actually want to build your own video game and you want your game to be finished in the next 20 years then you need to invest your money on other softwere, zbrush,marvelous designer, etc. blender alone for making a video game is a frikin nightmare. blender also has a horrible interface where you spend most of the time just rotating the camera like a jackoff. blender is so bad and so uncormftable to work with its amazing.

With the perpetual model you won’t get any updates unless you pay $359 (if I remember correctly)

@@AlHowell oh ok thanks, that’s not so bad. After my Student License becomes invalid, I’ll probably but it outright.

I have heard and seen really great things (both online and in person) but have never actually used it.

Zbrush has a 14 day trial that you might check out. If you are new to sculpting, Zbrush core mini is free. It is very limited but the performance is awesome and it's fun and easy to use. I use core mini to introduce my high school students to sculpting. Then we transition to the full version of zbrush.

@@AlHowell Jeah i ddi try that back then aswell. but i wanted a little more brushes and stuff. Core felt fine, but zbrush is way to expensive as a hobbyst.

I'm not sure if you have looked in to this yet. It's an addon for blender that makes blender sculpting navigation behave similar to zbrush. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-e4icb81nXqo.html This helped me a lot in Blender.

@@AlHowell Thanks! i did download the addon, but i cannot select the preset in teh addon.

@@AlHowell Nvm, i found it :)

That’s so cool! Go with Zbrush. Once she learns the tools, the skills she has from clay sculpting will transfer beautifully

@@AlHowell Thank you :)

This is a good question. It is not clear on Maxon's site. I have sent them an email and will let you know if they respond.

Thanks! Please let me know!

@@JustUsCrazyBoyz As of last night my understanding is it is purely sub base at $9.95/mo. (or $895 for Zbrush full perpetual). I sent them an email asking if there was any reason other than "greed/more money" for their decision to remove the perpetual license for ZBrushCore and would they ever consider bringing it back because they are actually chasing consumers away - especially when there are free and highly competitive programs out there light Blender (though sometimes with a steep learning curve). They would retain and invite more costumers to them not by taking away purchasing options in the most shady way software companies can - by going subscription only, which is grossly becoming the norm - but by actually making a mid range product available again to be affordable and keep interest in the product. If people stick with 3d sculpting at that point or make it a career they are likely going to upgrade anyway. Apologies - this became my "two cents" rant. www.maxon.net/en/buy/zbrushcore

How's it goin'?

@@JustUsCrazyBoyz no response from them yet. I’ll keep searching

As of 6-29-22….Maxon still has perpetual pricing for Zbrush (but there are no free upgrades any more)

@@AlHowell Yeah I just now realized the "perpetual" button is a link at the bottom of the page and I was paying too much attention to the buttons at the top. I've just had some pretty bad concerns for Zbrush ever since Maxon bought it. I have my own perpetual license but glad to know I could still purchase it again in the future as a gift for someone else eventually

@@RobertChambers1522 I do t blame you at all. I definitely had my concerns over this deal.

Blender 3 has brought sculpting even closer to being a zbrush competitor. Personally, I have worked in Blender since 2.8 launched. I came from Maya and 3DS Max. Hated Blender 2.79. After 2 months, I switched fully to Blender. I also tried the ZBrush 2 week trial. At first it was awesome, but I actually caught a tutorial for MWSculpt (I think that's how to spell his channel). He did a video on a free plugin he made for sculpting. That pie menu addin honestly made me end up not wanting to pay for zbrush. It made for a much faster workflow and I was able to crank out my sculpts quite a bit faster. I just installed his add-in a week ago. Don't get me wrong, ZBrush was nice, but I couldn't justify paying that price when Blender was working extremely well. Also, get used to the multires modifier. I went from being able to handle roughly 8 million polys on my computer while sculpting in Blender to over 20 million. ( I don't normally have that many, I was just stress testing Blender and my PC).

Dang it! I was supposed to tell her yesterday 😔

You are living up to your name... Truth!

You are 100% right! Night and day

nope! lol

@@AlHowell what, next thing your ganna say adobe cloud is not free to?

Lol! For sure

Lol! Zbrush will run on just about anything!

Thumbnail makes sense after you watch it

I actually talk about that exact thing here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wlG4UtqOPa0.html

How? Right now they area only making it better.

@@justshady wait and see.. first BS update is out now... compare it to any previous pixologic updates..being a user of c4d for years.. was there when they drop game dev assets for motion graphics... maxon is part of nemetschek group, is lika a german adobe so zb upgrade decisions will be base on profit, because of shareholders.. they dont care what the user/artist want..

i got a virus

@@sw6560 😂

I have many videos saying this… but sculpting is sculpting

If you're sculpting in Zbrush but the guy next to you is sculpting in Blender and doing a much better job, who do you think studios are going to want?