Pixologic ZBrush
Most Current Versions:
ZBrush 3.5 for PC
ZBrush 3.2 for Mac
Image by Francois Rimasson
ZBrush Overview
ZBrush is a digital sculpting and painting program that has revolutionized the 3D industry with its powerful features and intuitive workflows. Built within an elegant interface, ZBrush offers the world’s most advanced tools for today’s digital artists. With an arsenal of features that have been developed with usability in mind, ZBrush creates a user experience that feels incredibly natural while simultaneously inspiring the artist within. With the ability to sculpt up to a billion polygons, ZBrush allows you to create limited only by your imagination.
Designed around a principle of circularity, the menus in ZBrush work together in a non-linear and mode-free method. This facilitates the interaction of 3D models, 2D images and 2.5D Pixols in new and unique ways.
ZBrush gives you all of the tools needed to quickly sketch out a 2D or 3D concept and then take that idea all the way to completion. You can create realistic renders directly in ZBrush with lighting and atmospheric effects. With the many powerful export options, you can easily prepare your model for 3D printing or use within any other digital application.
Because ZBrush users are enabled by its powerful software processing, you can sculpt and paint with millions of polygons with out having to worry about purchasing expensive graphics cards. It is for this reason why ZBrush is used by everyone from art enthusiast to major film and games studios.
Leave technical hurdles and steep learning curves behind, as you sculpt and paint with familiar brushes and tools. Download a full trial today and see why ZBrush is a tool created by artists for artists.
One small step for man. One extraordinary leap for
artists.
Every hero's journey begins with a single step. ZBrush 3.5 is the next step; the
next step in the creation process; the step that liberates you from the
restrictions of conventional software; the step that carries you beyond
experience and knowledge and into pure imagination. Sculpt using materials that
so closely resemble earth you'll wonder why your hands aren't dirty. Pose your
sculpture as if you were moving its limbs with your hands rather than a stylus
and a tablet. ZBrush's technology allows you to ignore technology altogether,
transferring its power directly to your hands, hands that can be used to create,
sculpt, imagine and cast your creations as heroes in your own journey.
- Rapid Start:
Dive right into creating with an
interface designed to give you the basics, make you comfortable, and get you
ready for the next step.
- Transpose:
Quickly and easily position, pose or
deform your model. Turn your default static model into something dynamic and
beautiful.
- Subtools:
Split your model into several
components, work on each component as if it's a separate mesh, only bringing
them together at the end of your design process.
- Tweak, magnify, pinch, flatten, and
morph.
A quiver of brushes lets you abuse and
refine your model to your imagination's satisfaction. Furthermore, Z3 lets
you customize your brushes to create even more variations on a theme.
- Mesh extraction:
Add to existing geometry, quickly make a
jacket, hat, gloves, etc. for your hero character's journey.
- Real-Time Shadows:
As you sculpt, real-time shadows provide
you with visual feedback, without the need for rendering.
- Layers:
Work with your model at numerous and
varied stages of its evolution. Give your character features in one layer,
or turn them off to refine your character's underlying features.
Image by Taron Baysal
Core Features
ZBrush 3.5 gives you access to unparalleled power and control previously
unknown in digital art creation software. Controls enable sculptors to create
with a stylus and a tablet as intuitively as if they were using their hands on a
block of clay. ZBrush further extends the creation experience, harnessing
technology and providing artists with a multitude of creation-enhancing tools.
Transpose
Posing your model is as simple as moving an action line. Create a mask to
isolate an area, click and drag. It’s no more complicated than posing a clay
model with your fingers.
MatCap
Matcap lets you apply real world texturing and lighting to your model. Sample
a few points from your chosen photograph or texture; apply to your model, and
seconds later you’ve got a model complete with texture and lighting.
Perspective Camera
The perspective camera gives you the ability to apply perspective to your
model, giving you the ability to adjust your focal length at will.
Speed
Multithreaded support for up to 256 processors let ZBrush compute at the
speed of your imagination.
Higher Poly Count
Up to a billion polygons allow you to create objects with almost infinite
detail.
HD Geometry
HD Geometry allows you to divide your model to 1 billion polygons, and your
system will only process the polygons visible onscreen.
Topology
ZSpheres makes simple and fast work of creating a new topology. And the
projection feature lets you shrink-wrap your topology to an existing model.
Scripted Interface
ZBrush’s integrated scripting lets you create an interface that suits your
workflow and your needs. Move existing interface items as you like, or add
entirely new buttons and palettes to your interface.
User Defined Alpha and texture Start up
Customize your environment with the alphas, textures, materials and plug-ins
you use most.
New Movie Palette
Create, view or export ZBrush tutorials, movies, turntables, models, and even
time-lapse videos of your sculpting process.
64 bit support
ZBrush takes full advantage of your 64-bit system.
Image by Magdalena Dadela
Sculpt
ZBrush 3.5 brings you the next step in sculpting, letting you create with
shadows, alphas, providing you with a huge palette of brushes, and the ability
to create even more. This powerful, scriptable tool lets you control your sculpt
as never before, Using a number of mimic materials, you can simulate gravity,
create numerous variations atop your original, or even using your original
geometry to give your model a whole new wardrobe. And if you’re new to ZBrush,
Rapid Start lets you dive into creating with the smallest possible learning
curve.
Full 3D Sculpting With Alphas
A powerful new feature; sculpt with any ZBrush alpha or your own. Add a whole
new level of detail to your brushes. You may even choose to have ZBrush start up
with your own custom alpha.
RealTime Shadows
Real-time shadows provide a level of visual feedback as you sculpt, giving
you the ability to control the lighting conditions, seeing the lighting you
prefer, and controlling the lighting conditions ultimately used in your model.
Matcap Materials
Sculpt using a number of mimic materials, including two flavors of red wax,
pearl cavity and white cavity.
New Brushes
A quiver of new brushes lets you create as never before. And if the ones we
include aren’t enough, ZBrush lets you create even more.
Lazy Mouse
Lazy Mouse provides you with a way to control your curves and steady your
hand, creating precise and controlled brush strokes. Effortlessly.
Gravity
Simulate wrinkles, age, wind, magnetism or other gravitational pulls.
Subtools
Subtools let the artist treat a single mesh as numerous independent objects,
giving you the ability to create much larger structures than your system would
otherwise permit.
3D Layers
Release yourself from a linear workflow, and work on as many versions,
details and elements as you wish, in whatever order suits your process and your
creation.
Mesh Extraction
Use existing geometry to adorn your model with a jacket, helmet, gloves, vest
or whatever garments it may need.
Local Subdivision
Add detail to only the areas where you need it most, add local subdivision
around an eye to create crow feet wrinkles, or a forehead to make creases, all
while the remaining geometry stays lighter.
Rapid Start
Sculpt immediately with Rapid Start, a gateway to the power of ZBrush without
the need to invest in time learning features unnecessary to an artist wishing to
dive into sculpting.
Lasso Tool
Create freeform selections with the Lasso tool.
Image by Magdalena Dadela
Paint
ZBrush 3.5 releases you from the restrictions of traditional software, giving
you the freedom to create the same way you have since you picked up your first
crayon. Paint directly on your model, on your canvas, or directly on a texture
map you wrap to your model; switch seamlessly between ZBrush and your favorite
image editing software. The options are as infinite as your imagination.
ZApplink V2
Integrate your image editing software into your ZBrush workflow. Use
Photoshop's layer mask, to mask parts of your ZBrush canvas, save and load
views, create layers, generate a character sheet with all views of your model,
and that's just the beginning.
Poly Painting
Paint directly onto your model. If you like, you can transfer all your detail
to a texture map when you've finished painting.
Cavity Masking
Achieve real-world effects of timeworn cracks and weatherworn crevices.
Cavity masking allows you to automatically mask fine recesses so your work only
affects the highest or lowest point of your model's surface.
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ZBrush 3 Demo Movie Watch
examples of some of the great new features in ZBrush 3.
Click to watch (Opens new window, 32.8 MB)
(Requires QuickTime) |
Image by Kris Costa
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